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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.” Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. Golden Jackals in Beljarica.

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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. A surplus of quality birding experiences kept me from making my reports, which is embarrassing. (It’s a good thing that I can access some 300+ michoacano birds! But, still.).

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