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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. Within its Belt and Road Initiative, China asked for this location for the new harbour. They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India. He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time).

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