Conservationists descend on a former salt lake in southeastern Montenegro every September to tag and identify birds. The area is the most significant feeding point in the Adriatic for birds migrating ...

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Every September, ornithologists and volunteers gather at a former salt lake in southeastern Montenegro to tag and identify migrating birds. The site, near Ulcinj, ceased salt production in 2013 and is ...

Every year in September ornithologists and volunteers descend on a former salt lake in southeastern Montenegro, the most significant feeding point in the Adriatic for birds migrating to Africa, to tag ...

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