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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.” It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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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. And I did manage to see a large number of new birds — 45 new species, to be specific. New places, new birds! This time, we actually managed to take the trip we had planned.

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