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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Last March (2020), only a few days before the famous virus has reached Serbia, the Ministry of Construction and Traffic stated: “No, we gave up on the Beljarica locality, the harbour will be built somewhere farther upstream.” And such movements are becoming stronger every day.

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An Embarrassment of Riches

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So I was excited to finally get to take a trip to Spain and the Middle East that we had originally planned… for the ill-fated month of March, 2020. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. But, still.). New places, new birds!

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