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ecotourism consultant, destination maker, experience curator, birder, guide, wildlife-travel writer and the @WildlifeMag award winning blogger www.10000birds.com/author/dragan, ambassador for @SwarovskiOptik

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Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · Dec 15

I was not born for one corner, the whole 🌏 #world is my native land, to ✈️ #travel - 🦜 #birding, 🍺 #beering and 💻 #blogging about it:
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#gobirding 🦩 #birdingtourism 🌴

#turismornitológico 🗺️ #ecotourism 🦥 #ecotravel 🧳

Photo: @ #Tadoba in #IncredibleIndia

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 7h

Looking for a new winter #birding destination? #Belgrade is the one! Smew, Hen Harrier, Red, & Black Kite, White-tailed 🦅, LE Owl, Middle Spotted, & Black Wood; Peregrine, GG Shrike, Crested Lark, Meadow, & Water Pipit, Corn Bunting🌳 Enjoyable full-day & half-day private bird drives
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Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 1d

Mid-October #birding the seasonally inundated forests of English oak, ash, and elm @ #ObedskaBara NR in the #SavaRiver floodplain, 50 min west of #Belgrade: Middle Spotted & Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Marsh Tit, Willow Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Short-toed Treecreeper, Eurasian Wren

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 2d

Mid-October #birding the #Beljarica Foreland #ForlandLeveObaleDunava Reserve, #Belgrade: Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Sparrowhawk, Marsh Harrier, WT Eagle, Green Wood, 📷GG Shrike, Willow Warbler, Mistle Thrush, Stonechat, Corn Bunting

#OctoberBigDay 2025
🔗 ebird.org/octoberbigday
#birdsuniteourworld

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 3d

#BirdIDGuide #BookReview – #Birds of #Ecuador by Freile & Restall: As we #birders like to see ourselves, we aren’t tourists but #travellers, even #explorers. And we do not carry tourist guides with us, we carry #fieldguides
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#birding #BirdBooks #HelmFieldGuides

Birds of Ecuador by Juan Freile & Robin Restall

Helm Field Guides, Paperback – May 2018 As we birders like to see ourselves, we aren’t tourists but travellers, even explorers. And hence we do not carry tourist guides with us.

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Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 4d

#Birding #Ecuador sailing down the #RioNapo from the town of Coca (✈️) into #Yasuni NP: 610sp, Hoatzin, Zigzag Heron, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Crimson-crested Woodpecker, Lanceolated Monklet, Paradise Tanager, Amazonian Motmot; cabins with air-con & private bathroom, excursion boats; Jun-Jul floods 🦜

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 4d

#Birding #Peru, sailing up the Rios #Ucayali & #Maranon from #Iquitos (✈️) into #PacayaSamiria, floodplain reserve about the size of Slovenia—600sp, 200birds/week: Nocturnal & Wattled Curassows, Pompadour Cotinga, Festive Parrot; cabins with air-con & private bathroom, excursion boats; Mar-Apr floods

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 6d

#Birding #Peru, #ManuNP with 1025sp, 450sp/2weeks, along the paved 170km of #ManuRoad, from 4000m asl in the #Andes to 500m in the Rio Madre de Dios basin of #Amazonia, or from #Wayqecha to #CockoftheRockLodge with the Cock-of-the-Rock lek, & #ManuBiolodge with a parrot clay lick; timing May-Sep🌴🦜🦜🦜

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 7d

#Birding #Peru #Inkaterra #ReservaAmazonica, adjacent to #Tambopata lowland rainforest NR: 540sp. in the hotel grounds, Black-faced Cotinga, Red-bellied Macaw, Pale-winged Trumpeter, Pavonine Quetzal; canopy walk, access to #LakeSandoval; fly 30min Cuzco to #PuertoMaldonado + 45min by boat; Aug-Sep🦜

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 8d

#Birding #CristalinoJungleLodge in southern #Amazonia, #Brazil: private 12K ha reserve, 596sp, 55 #endemic, 250sp/week, Cryptic Forest-falcon, Blue-and-yellow, Red-and-green & Scarlet Macaws, Brown-banded Puffbird, Pompadour & Spangled Cotingas; 1hr drive + 20min by boat from #AltaFloresta; Oct-Nov🦜

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 9d

Birding #Brazil, floating #EcolodgeDaBarra @ the upper #RioTapajos, S #Amazonia, 2hrs flight from #Manaus (baggage allowance of 15kg): 500sp, Dark-winged Trumpeter, Bald Parrot, Pavonine Quetzal, Rufous-necked Puffbird, Pale-faced Antbird, White-tailed Cotinga, Rondonia Bushbird; timing Sep to Nov🌴🦜

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 10d

#Birding #Amazonia, #Brazil, sailing up the #RioNegro from #Manaus: #Anavilhanas NP 🌴 Wire-tailed Manakin, Amazonian Umbrellabird, Agami Heron, + localised Klages's, & Leaden Antwren; #JauNP 🌴🦜 Harpy Eagle, Sunbittern, Blue-and-Yellow, & Scarlet Macaw, Capuchinbird, Pompadour Cotinga; timing Sep-Oct

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 10d

I hear this from my president every day.

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 11d

#Birding the lowland rainforest of #Sarapiqui, #CostaRica: #SelvaVerde Lodge, 470sp, Sunbittern, Yellow-throated, & Keel-billed Toucan, Great Green Macaw, Black-faced Grosbeak, Gray-necked Wood-Rail, White-winged Becard, Violet Crowned Woodnymph, Acadian Flycatcher; 2hrs from San Jose; Aug-Oct 🌴🌴🦜🦥🌴

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 12d

#Birding #CanoNegro, #CostaRica, a shallow 10K ha lagoon surrounded by rainforest, grassland and marshes, 450sp.: Jabiru, Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture, Spot-breasted Wren, Boat-billed Heron, Green Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, American Pygmy Kingfisher; #CanoNegroLodge; 4hrs drive from San Jose; Dec-Apr🌴

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Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 12d

And out of 6 toucans that do live in CR, again, it's the Toco Toucan which does not!

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 12d

#Birding #Tortuguero NP on the Caribbean coast, #CostaRica 350sp, Tiger, & Agami Herons, White-fronted Nunbird, all 6 kingfishers, Lineated Woodpecker, Sungrebe, Great Green Macaw, Great Potoo; 📷 #LagunaLodge; from San Jose drive to Pavona, plus boat ride, 6hrs, or 30min by plane; timing Aug to Oct🌴

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Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 14d

R.I.P. Jane Goodall

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 15d

#Birding Sungai Kapur Reserve rainforest & mangroves, #Borneo #Malaysia 📷 #UtanRainforestLodge 250sp: Bornean Ground-Cuckoo, Bornean Crested Fireback, Rhinoceros, &Helmeted Hornbill, Sabah Partridge, Blue-Headed Pitta, Storm's Stork, Great Argus,🦧🐘; 2.5hr east of #LahadDatu✈️; fruiting season May-Oct

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 16d

#Birding #Kinabatangan River #Borneo #Malaysia 📷 #KinabatanganWetlandsResort freshwater swamps & mangrove forest 250sp., 100sp/3days: Black, & Rhinoceros Hornbill, White-fronted Falconet, Buffy Fish-owl, Large, & Sunda Frogmouth, 10 primate sp., 🦧🐘; 1.5hr by speedboat from #Sandakan ✈️; Jun-Sep

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Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 17d

#Kinabatangan has been officially recognised as #Malaysia newest UNESCO #BiosphereReserve: 414K hectares, 315 bird species (incl. 8 hornbill sp.), 127 mammal sp. (incl. orangutans, Bornean elephants, and proboscis monkeys)

#birding 🐘 #Borneo 🌴🌴

www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/267433/...

Kinabatangan is Unesco’s newest bio reserve

Kota Kinabalu: The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation has officially recognised Kinabatangan in Sabah as Malaysia’s newest biosphere reserve.

www.dailyexpress.com.my

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 18d

Go #birding #Serbia 376 sp.; 200+ sp. areas: 📷 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #TamisRiver fish farms 3, #Ečka fish farm 4, #LabudovoOkno (Dubovac–Ram) 6 wetlands; 150+ sp.: 📷 #DeliblatoSands 5, 📷 #Djerdap 7 & #Trešnjica 8 gorges; single-base: #Belgrade; best Apr–Jun & Aug–Sep
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#WTD25

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 19d

Late September #birding oak, poplar and willow forests of the #ObedskaBara in the #SavaRiver floodplain, west of #Belgrade, #Serbia: White-tailed Eagle, Middle Spotted, Great Spotted, & Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Hobby, Marsh Tit, Willow Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, Hawfinch

#birdwatching 🌳🌳🌳

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 21d

#Birding #Kasane 480sp. #Botswana longest list, 3days/200sp: mixed broad-leaved & riverine woodland, floodplains, #ChobeRiver: Pennant-winged Nightjar, Racket-tailed Roller, Slaty Egret, Bradfield's Hornbills, Narina Trogon, African Finfoot; #ChobeGameLodge, 1:45hrs flight from Johannesburg; Nov-Apr

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 22d

#Birding #Zambia #SouthLuangwa NP 9K km2 of rivers, riverine and mopane woodland, 460sp, incl 39 raptors, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Carmine Bee-eater, Lilian's Lovebird, Narina Trogon, Greater Painted-snipe, 200 birds/30 mammals/week; #MfuweLodge, 1hr drive from Mfuwe ✈️; NOV to Apr

Dragan's Birding Travel Tips @albicilla66.bsky.social · 22d

#Birding #Chad #Zakouma NP, 3000km2 of Sudano-Sahelian savannah: 390sp, Black-breasted, & Bearded Barbet, Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, Sahel Paradise Whydah, Long-tailed Starling, Black-rumped Waxbill 🐘; 📷 #TingaCamp; 18hr/860km drive from N'Djamena / air charter possible; cooler months, late Nov to Mar