tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18830656979239609462024-03-13T20:04:36.878+02:00IBRCEInternational Birding & Research Center Eilat
הפארק הבינלאומי לציפורים אילתיעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-86153028478298681612015-05-26T12:26:00.000+03:002015-05-26T12:26:03.961+03:00Ringers for autumn 2015 at the International Birding & Research Centre, Eilat - IBRCE<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1878b3fd-8c4b-e4a4-fb2c-054f85270cd1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="http://www.birds.org.il/Data/Arad/logos/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95-%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%96%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%AA_1681384619.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 192px; margin: 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 150px;" />Israel, and particularly the Eilat surroundings, has ranked high among foreign destinations for European birders for many years. Sometimes described as the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Israeli birding, Eilat is a fine and logical place to begin any desert birding tour. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1878b3fd-8c4b-e4a4-fb2c-054f85270cd1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extraordinary concentrations of migratory birds use the area, making Eilat one of the busiest migration areas in the world. While the largest bird movements occur in spring (March–May) many interesting species occur in autumn. In addition to migrants, Eilat offers a rich and varied local avifauna, comprised of desert species, tropical species typical of the Rift Valley, Mediterranean and Red Seas.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1878b3fd-8c4b-e4a4-fb2c-054f85270cd1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The International Birding & Research Centre in Eilat has been operating a Bird Ringing Station for the last 25 years which has contributed greatly in monitoring and understanding bird migration along the Eastern Flyway while utilizing hands on approach to train and educate many bird ringers and visitors</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f3cbda2-fcb9-3a2b-af1d-4cca076af98a" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One morning turned out to be very special for me. A week after my arrival at IBRCE we caught a bird with a foreign ring. When we read the information upon it we discovered we were holding in our hands a Lesser Whitethroat with a Danish ring around its leg! - Wow what a thrill! On top of it I, as a Dane, had the luck of reading it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f3cbda2-fcb9-3a2b-af1d-4cca076af98a" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two days later we got a reply from The Danish Zoological Museum informing us that the bird was ringed in Denmark on 26</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> April 2014 at Blaavand Bird Observatory in Western Jutland. A distance in a straight line of 3587 kilometers in 10 months and 25 days. Not bad for a bird that weighs about 12 grams! Of course it has also been south of the Sahara Desert and now is on its way back north again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f3cbda2-fcb9-3a2b-af1d-4cca076af98a" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What a very special recapture for me having a ”Danish” bird in my hands, and on top of that it was a bird ringed at Blaavand Bird Observatory, where in 2009 assisted the ringer of this bird Henrik Knudsen. What an amazing coincidence, and yet another example of the magnificent international flyways migratory birds use, and how they are linked together. The distances on earth are great, but at the same time the closeness and the connection in it all becomes clear, when something like this happens. l wonder if the "Danish” Lesser Whitethroat will appear in 3-4 weeks in Blaavand again?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f3cbda2-fcb9-3a2b-af1d-4cca076af98a" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This bird has been the highlight for me, but the ringing station is bursting with a rich variety of other birds, with the many species of warblers never ceasing to amaze me! As well as the standardized ringing sessions in the morning, we try when it is calm enough to catch gulls and waders on the salt pans in the evenings. This has resulted in some very interesting ringing with a variety of at least 10 species of waders and 2 species of gulls caught, including the "charming" Slender-billed Gull. This Thursday we also ringed the first Steppe Buzzard for the season.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f3cbda2-fcb9-3a2b-af1d-4cca076af98a" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore I have spent some days now in the Eilat Mountains monitoring migrating birds of prey as part of the raptor team. The Steppe Buzzards are peaking now with days with well over 30.000 individuals recorded. There are still a pretty good number of Steppe Eagles passing by, with 120 seen by myself one day. Now we look forward to the arrival of the Levant Sparrowhawks and the Honey Buzzards, which should begin very soon</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d5a4eff-e155-95a0-0bf0-7da444d7c06d" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The big events of the Spring Migration Festival and the Champions of the Flyway are finished. We've had some good birds and great birders and I was reunited with lot of old friends, so I've just been too busy to update the Eilat Blog. Sorry about that. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d5a4eff-e155-95a0-0bf0-7da444d7c06d" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winners of the Champions of the Flyway competition were none other than The American Dippers led by Doug, who is on the IBRCE field monitoring team. I was going to write that "for us it was a game but for them it was war" as the reason why they won, but I guess that's just because I lost…They were sharp, organized, calculated and very wise, which is what made them an exceptional team. I should have seen it from the first minute of the race. Very well done and very well deserved.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d5a4eff-e155-95a0-0bf0-7da444d7c06d" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hadoram Shirihai, the founder of IBRCE, visited us for two weeks and lit the fire in our minds with the Oriental Skylark mystery. These larks are supposed to be a non-migratory bird with the closest known population in Pakistan. Nevertheless we get them here annually every winter, sometimes in good numbers. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d5a4eff-e155-95a0-0bf0-7da444d7c06d" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very few larks were caught and ringed about 25 years ago and the measurements were not completely within the range of the Pakistani subspecies, so Hadoram asked us to try and catch one. We spent 2 days trying a bird in Eilot's fields, but we missed it again and again by centimeters from the top of the nets. We will try in autumn again with hopefully more success.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d5a4eff-e155-95a0-0bf0-7da444d7c06d" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Besides that migration is brilliant. We had some cooler days and the ringing station filled up with many birds, with 300 to 500 being ringed daily. Blackcaps, Lesser Whitethroats and all kinds of Swallows are in huge numbers. No less than millions are around the Arava now. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prof. Yossi Leshem always says that birds know no boundaries. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is true also of environmental problems. In a conflict area like ours, where any kind of cross border cooperation is a complicated political issue with danger attached, even a small step is a long journey. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With naturalists in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, we have very little contact. We do follow each other's Facebook pages and press the "like" button occasionally, and sometimes we meet in international forums, but we cannot do much above ground with them. They are too scared of the "anti-normalization" movements that threaten to boycott any person or organization that will work with Israel in the Arab world. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Jordanians and Palestinians on the other hand, we do have some cooperation, but it is always under the shade of the political events and "the problem". Nevertheless, nature conservationists always have the tendency to ignore politics. Although political conflicts are certainly large obstacles, not even they can stop us. Even in the days of war and bloodshed we always keep in contact.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project deals with building Palestinian capabilities for nature conservation and aims to develop a network of Israeli and Palestinian experts that will work together. Unfortunately the Palestinians have been busy with other kind of problems and therefore do not possess many experts that can systematically survey nature. This project's aim is to improve the capabilities of Palestinian wildlife experts, train them with an understanding of the concept of nature parks, create 2-3 of these parks in Palestine, and show the local population that nature conservation creates opportunities for eco-tourism and other kinds of income. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week we had a workshop together down here in the Arava valley. The course was on taxonomy for and was guided by the best Israeli experts we have down here. It was a great opportunity to meet fellow researchers from Palestine who perhaps know less, but share our enthusiasm for nature and for learning. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-148e5697-d6a7-5a82-131b-658853d5b166" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fruitful cooperation was also achieved during the birders competition held in Eilat last year, the Champions of the Flyway, in which a joint Israeli Palestinian team - The Palestinian Sunbirders won the race with the amazing score of 169 species observed in 24 hours. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-632de670-090b-e88b-b2ce-9e95ff9b4f0f" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Striolated Bunting is one of the most beautiful and interesting birds of the desert. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-632de670-090b-e88b-b2ce-9e95ff9b4f0f" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Dead Sea area, in deep canyons and along the rift valley cliffs, the Striolated Buntings populations are steadier, with tens of birds in Wadi Dragot, and at a small spring in a remote valley that very few people know of. In the other wadis they are rare and difficult to see. It looks like they are declining as it has been harder and harder to see them the past few years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-632de670-090b-e88b-b2ce-9e95ff9b4f0f" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Eilat Mountains, the Buntings used to be a scarce resident. Generations of visiting birders from all over the world used to come to the small cemetery above town to view this beautiful species that loved to feed between the graves or in the vegetation. In good years there were tens of them reported from different remote locations, mainly next to the legendary cemetery and near Neot Smadar (Shizafon). But since the late 90's the observations decreased to nothing. They were always on the list of birds of Eilat, but every birder would have told you to forget about them. They are not there anymore. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-632de670-090b-e88b-b2ce-9e95ff9b4f0f" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two weeks ago, Christoph Gruneberg, an intern from Germany helping me with special projects at the IBRCE, reported to me that on the way to look for Pallid Scopes Owls, he had discovered a small flock of Striolated Buntings. He visited the flock every few days and they grew to number at least 15 birds. I joined him one afternoon and there they were - singing, jumping and so tame, letting me take pictures from 4 meters away, exactly like they always are - great birds. A small circle from my childhood is closing for me. The forgotten bird of Eilat is back.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c18f1f46-bfbe-948c-5a9a-37e1b9ac8486" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is how the desert becomes alive. In the one event of flood, that comes once in a few years, the small streams fill up with water that directs them to the wide valley. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c18f1f46-bfbe-948c-5a9a-37e1b9ac8486" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Local, migratory or the desert wanderers, they flood the valley, months after some water had passed here.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c18f1f46-bfbe-948c-5a9a-37e1b9ac8486" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So following May rains 6 months ago and another short rain last month that woke up the seeds on the ground, I took the enthusiastic volunteers of the IBRCE, Euan (Scotland) and Juan (Spain) to check it up. Already on the way we could feel it will be a great day. Nubian Ibexes and a Red Fox were easy to notice by the road. Juan saw an almost adult Imperial Eagle so when I went out of the car to photograph it, it was diving into the hill next to us, crashing a pigeon to the ground and easily collected it and flew away. I managed to take one good photo in spite of the still weak light. Entering the Valley, the dominance of Wheatears was overwhelming. I don't think I ever saw so many Wheatears in one spot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c18f1f46-bfbe-948c-5a9a-37e1b9ac8486" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along the valley we counted 25 White Crowned, 5 Hooded, 10 Desert and another 12 Morning Wheatears. What was also notable was that all of the 25 White crowned Wheatears were young. These Wheatears live in the most remote and dry desert areas. They had learned to use shadow that collects some moisture during the nights and creates small niche eco systems that creates their food. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c18f1f46-bfbe-948c-5a9a-37e1b9ac8486" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This way they always prefer canyons or areas with big rocks. But the desert is harsh and the food is scarce, so the young birds, who don't have to keep a territory, find their way to the valley. The story of the morning Wheatears is different. They migrate from the Negev highlands, each time to a different location where water was flowing. The Desert and Hooded wheatears gathered here also to enjoy the ease to find food.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c18f1f46-bfbe-948c-5a9a-37e1b9ac8486" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The valley also attracted the nomad birds. These are birds that breed in a different place every year. They wander around the deserts of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi and Israel looking for a valley like ours. Of these birds we located 25 beautiful Temminck's Horned larks, about 30 Bar-tailed Larks, 60 Desert Larks and 12 Spotted Sandgrouses. Many more local desert birds such as tens of Trumpeter Finches, A Cream Colored Coursor, Sand partridges and Brown Necked Ravens filled the valley with their calls. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Autumn migration continues to provide many interesting birds here at Eilat. Apart from a freak catch of 180 birds one morning (thanks to low feeding Hirundines and large flocks of Spanish Sparrows </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Passer hispaniolensis</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> finding the nets), the number of captures has been lower the past couple of weeks, averaging about 50 birds ringed a day. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However despite the lull in numbers we have still caught some nice species.</span></div>
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</span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Luscinia svecica</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="goog-text-highlight"> ringed on 08/10 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and the first Chiffchaff </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Phylloscopus collybita</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> on 17/10. Winter visitors like Sardinian Warbler </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sylvia melanocephala</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Cetti's Warbler and </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cetti cettia</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> have also started to appear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We have also some ringed some less common migrants. Amongst the daily catch of Red-backed </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lanius collurio</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> and Masked Shrikes </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lanius nubicus</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> came a </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Daurian Shrike <i>Lanius isabellinus</i></span><i> </i> on 13/10 <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Every morning we've been opening the nets early to try to catch Nightjars, as well as walking around the park at night with a torch and hand net in the hope of dazzling one. All targeted attempts have so far been unsuccessful. However, halfway through the morning ringing session on the 17 <sup>th</sup> I got a surprise when I flushed a European Nightjar </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Caprimulgus</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <em>europaeus</em> </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">from its daytime roost and into one of Heligoland traps. It's sometimes the case with ringing that when you do not try, you succeed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As well as morning ringing we've found the time for the Hirundine roost, with the best catch being 145 birds, and a couple of evening mist netting sessions on the salt ponds, with 54 waders ringed, mostly Little Stint </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Calidris minuta</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> . The highlight of birding in the local area was at least 6 Hoopoe </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Larks </span><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Alaemon alaudipe</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> observed at Evrona on 05/10.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1c663037-1f72-e1e3-4d9f-4950fa0cf493" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We birders know it of course and wait with anticipation for the "eastern 2 weeks" of the second half of October, bringing with it birds from the Asian steppes. </span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1c663037-1f72-e1e3-4d9f-4950fa0cf493" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But even though it never fails to come, it always catches us by surprise. Although we know it's coming for us birders the greatest enjoyment for is to rediscover it all over again, year after year. That's what we live for - rediscovering the cycle of nature, as if it has never happened before. </span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1c663037-1f72-e1e3-4d9f-4950fa0cf493" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the local birds front we had some good findings too. No less than 6 Hoopoe Larks were seen and photographed by our crew during their usual monitoring activity, on the main way to Evrona Well last week (3 KM north of the KM20 saltpans). A report of 2 from the same location came from the local ranger 3 days later. </span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1c663037-1f72-e1e3-4d9f-4950fa0cf493" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only that this bird has now been at the same spot at least from the 02/03/2008 when I first caught it. It was already an adult then, making it at least 7 years old now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-725d1e47-e6b4-3389-da04-c2ef9c6258c3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My dreams are to open it up to the public and birders by moving the ringing station to be accessible and open to you birders, and to become the information center for the birders visiting Eilat. I will try to resume the intensive bird monitoring in Eilat like in the good old days, discover new birds, find new challenges that birds face here and remove them, and safeguard the birds of Eilat.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-725d1e47-e6b4-3389-da04-c2ef9c6258c3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The past 3 weeks I've been here have already been exciting. Autumn comes late to Eilat but it's already full of good birds and activities. The ringing station catches up to 150 birds per day and the diversity is very high. The best birds until now have been a young Rosy Starling and 3 Scarlet Rosefinches. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-725d1e47-e6b4-3389-da04-c2ef9c6258c3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interesting to note it has been a good year for the Red-backed and Masked Shrikes (up to 23 caught per day). Another surprise has been the Blackstarts, that find refuge in the irrigated areas of the bird sanctuary from the difficult and dry conditions in the desert wadis. Up to 4 of them were observed and a few got marked.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-725d1e47-e6b4-3389-da04-c2ef9c6258c3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Field the most impressive is the daily take off of Levant Sparrowhawks in the early mornings. We have them now almost every day with numbers moving between 50 and 1,000. The peak was on the 29/9 morning with 4,000 of them swarming above the bird sanctuary.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-725d1e47-e6b4-3389-da04-c2ef9c6258c3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These Hawks are probably missed by the main Raptor survey in Kfar Kasem. The survey's crew speculated that these Hawks end up passing in Eilat on days with strong westerly wind. I'm not so sure this is actually the case as their usual route is passing about 150 KM west of us, very few are reported between Eilat and the main route and these Hawks are seen here year after year. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-725d1e47-e6b4-3389-da04-c2ef9c6258c3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the field here Shachar Shalev reported a Crested Tern (very rare) and a Lesser Crested Tern on the 22/09 at the north beach. They were not relocated but that's how the north beach works - it is very dynamic. A Spotted Crake was noted in the bird sanctuary and a new Sooty Falcons nest was found in the mountains. The first Rollers and some Lesser Kestrels have been reported from a few sites. Common Cranes travelling towards Africa started passing above us too.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I arrived in Eilat two weeks ago, from the cold and dark of Scotland, and have been enjoying getting adjusted to the considerably hotter weather and the many exotic new species. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ringing each day the past few weeks has been steady, producing 60-100 birds with interesting species being caught daily.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The most common migrant species have been caught </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Reed Warbler </b><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Acrocephalus scirpaceus</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> קנית קטנה</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and <b>Willow Warbler </b><i>Phylloscopus trochilus</i>עלוית אפורה</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> , although numbers are now starting to dwindle. <b>Shrikes</b> have been a constant presence, with 22 caught one morning, resulting in lots of sore hands. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.95pt;">A regular migrant we catch most days that I can not fail to get excited about is the <b>Wryneck </b><i>Jynx </i><span class="apple-converted-space">t</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.95pt;"><i>orquilla</i></span><span dir="RTL" style="line-height: 15.95pt;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="line-height: 15.95pt;"></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 15.95pt;"><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> סבראש </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.95pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A great bird for me was this stunning adult <b>Hoopoe </b><i>Upupa epops דוכיפת.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Every day we see flocks of migrating <b>Levant Sparrowhawk </b><i>Accipiter brevipes</i> נץ קצר אצבעות,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ranging from less than 20 birds to several thousand. The 27/09 saw a spectacular number of birds passing overhead, and an adult male ended up being ringed.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A few evenings a week have been spent ringing the Swallow roost, but the Hirundine highlights have been in the mornings. The first net round on the 27/09 produced one of the best birds so far from a ringer's perspective; a control juvenile <b>Barn Swallow </b><i>Hirundo rustica סנונית רפתות</i></span><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,</span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">bearing a Hungarian ring. On 04/10 Hirundines were flying very low as they fed on flies and several were caught, including some <b>Red Rumped Swallows</b> <em>Cecropis daurica</em> סנונית מערות</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and a bird rarely ringed, a <b>Pale Crag Martin </b><i>Ptyonoprogne obsoleta סנונית מדבר.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We have also had two successful evenings mist netting waders, catching 24 and 19 birds respectively. The most numerous species ringed was <b>Little Stint </b><em>Calidris minuta חופית קטנה,</em> but we a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">lso caught <b>Dunlin </b><i>Calidris alpinaחופית אלפינית ,</i></span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ringed Plover </span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Charadrius hiaticula חופמי צוארון,</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ruff <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Philomachus pugnax לוחם</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and <b>Curlew Sandpiper </b><i>Calidris ferruginea</i></span><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> חופית מגל </span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As well as ringing we try to spend as much time as we can birding in the surrounding area, but it's not just birds we see. Recent excursions have resulted in good views of <b>Dorcas Gazelle </b><i>Gazella dorcas</i> and <b>Jackal </b><i>Canis aureus</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><i></i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">With October now here and the days getting cooler, hopefully many new migrant species and large numbers of <b>Chiffchaffs </b><i>Phylloscopus collybita עלוית חורף, </i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bluethroats </b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Luscinia svecica כחול חזה</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">await.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The first wave of autumn migration is still visible all around but new
winds are blowing, cooler than we can even remember (it's less than </span><st1:metricconverter productid="40C" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">40C</st1:metricconverter><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> with cool winds!! Unbelievable).
These winds are now bringing the first birds of second wave- such as the first two
</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Common Redstarts</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Phoenicurus phoenicurus</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">חכלילית
עצים</span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, first </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pied Flycatcher </b><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ficedula hypoleuca</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">חטפית שחורת עורף</span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and one beautiful </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wood Warbler</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Phylloscopus
sibilatrix</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">עלווית ירוקה</span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clearly we are also catching good numbers of the early migrants- first
wave of autumn but some species are almost gone- like the <b>Olivaceous Warbler</b>
<i>Iduna pallida</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">שיחנית קטנה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Surprising good numbers of <b>Namaqua Doves</b> <i>Oena capensis</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">תורית זנבתנית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> were ringed so far (4 at the IBRCE Park, 2
more at the fields of Qetura) and we are expecting more of them due to very
good numbers of the seen around. These tinny pigeons have almost nothing in
common with pigeons; maybe that's why I love them so badly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition to "normal ringing" program, we are also
activating <b><span style="background: white;">Bee-eaters</span></b><span style="background: white;"> <i>Merops apiaster</i> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">שרקרק מצוי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>ringing program. The <span style="background: white;">agriculturists
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of <b>Bee-eaters</b> <i>Merops apiaster</i> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">שרקרק
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Bee-eaters</b> <i>Merops orientalis</i> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">שרקרק
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In contrary to the birds, migration northwards was also recorded at the
station this week- I'm leaving and moving north to start with my university
studies- after an incredibly good, fascinating, fun… year at Eilat I have to
leave but I'm leaving the station in the hands of my great friend and <span style="background: white;">colleague</span>
– Noam Wiess. Noam worked at the Park in the past and just came back to the
area as a (renewed) worker of both the SPNI and the IBRCE (who are working in
partnership). Of course, the rest of the staff is here as well, keeping this place
home for birds and humans all together. </span></div>
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יעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-39482208671467953792014-09-12T16:59:00.000+03:002014-09-12T16:59:11.132+03:00Crowded with (flying) visitors<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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Perhaps lots of tourists have decided not
to visit <st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> this autumn but the birds clearly
disagree and show it with their wings… Another great week by the southern end
of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Israel-</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> great birds, all around, every day, for nearly
two weeks now!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We did have some slow days but once
again, species variation was incredible! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">79 birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Just one morning after posting the blog,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had one <b>Willow Warbler</b> <i>Phylloscopus
trochilus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">עלוית אפורה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> with a unique earring- a huge ant was clinging to the wing,
right by the outer joint. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The ant was dead but kept on grabbing the
wing of the Warbler. We released it after cutting the ant, since it was
impossible to take it out in any other way!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For me, the best bird of that day was a
wonderful <b>Crested Lark</b> <span style="background: white;"><i>Galerida cristata</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">עפרוני מצוייץ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">53 birds and 76
birds the next days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">66 birds, of
which one weird <b>House Sparrow</b> <i>Passer domesticus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">דרור הבית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>- who has odd
bill:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Surprisingly,
it is in good physical condition- with some fat and over 23gr. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">10/9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">67 birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The best was
one juvenile <b>Common Rosefinch</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Carpodacus
erythrinus</span></i><span style="background: white;"> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ורדית
אירופית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. They are not rare in
this time of the year but for example last autumn we had ringed a single bird
during season.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">11/9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">90 birds- numbers
went up a little. Many Shrikes but also some flocks of <b>House+ Spanish
Sparrows</b> <i>Passer domesticus+ hispaniolensis</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">דרור
הבית+ספרדי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We also enjoyed
some <b>Sand Martins</b> <i>Riparia riparia</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">כוכית
גדות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">House
Martins</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <i>Delichon
urbica</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">טסית בתים</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> with one first <b>Red-rumped Swallow</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Cecropis</span> daurica</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">סנונית
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had an <u>explosion of goodies</u>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1 juv. Male <b>Namaqua
Dove</b> <i>Oena capensis</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">תורית זנבנית</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1 ad. Female <b>Common</b>
<b>Rosefinch</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Carpodacus erythrinus</span></i><span style="background: white;"> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ורדית אירופית</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> (Second!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1 ad. <b>Olive-tree
Warbler</b> <i>Hippolais olivetorum</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">שיחנית זית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>- Great bird for autumn here... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">79 birds.
Started early with some <b>Barn Swallows</b> <i>Hirundo rustica</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">סנונית רפתות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
who spent the night by the reed-bed surrounding "</span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anita</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lake</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">" and jumped into the nets to get
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Later on, once
again, growing numbers of <b>Masked Shrikes</b> <i>Lanius nubicus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">חנקן נובי</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> were
noted (4 ringed but many more around, probably waiting to get ringed tomorrow
morning) together with <b>Spotted Flycatchers</b> <i>Muscicapa striata</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">חטפית אפורה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> (2
ringed, more around).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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retaining some old Primary coverts and Secondaries pointing out the fact it is
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On the 7<sup>th</sup>,
right after a perfect birding afternoon, Aylon Zvik and I found a special bug,
something I could tell I haven't noticed here ever before. I'm definitely not
an entomologist but big bugs always attract some attention. After uploading it
to a special Facebook group we were told that it is the somewhat rare <i><span style="background: white;">Monocladum aegyptiacum</span></i><span style="background: white;"> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יקרונית מצרית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">There were two of them by the ringing station and they weren’t
relocated since, despite some eager entomologists who are likely to twitch them
(could you believe?! Twitching bugs!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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יעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-71857762790194229452014-09-05T13:50:00.002+03:002014-09-05T13:50:43.266+03:00Eilat is under attack- of Shrikes!!!<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During summer we ring every now ant then, trying to monitor the birds
around without annoying them with too many unneeded re-captures. August is
already crowded is migrants but the heat doesn’t allow us to ring for 4 hours
every day like we to during monitoring season. While ringing shortly on August
28<sup>th</sup> we were feeling like the season is on- We caught a <b>Reed
Warbler</b> <i>Acrocephalus scirpaceus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">קנית קטנה</span>with
a ring from <st1:country-region>SLOVAKIA</st1:country-region>.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So far we ringed 403 birds in 5 days (61-111 each day) but the best part
is the species variety! Loads of cool species were ringed till now, I'm sure
there are many more on their way. It's almost impossible to share all the great
stories and all the happy faces of the volunteers who came to help with the ringing
and enjoy migration but I'll try to note some of the better species we had each
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Low expectations, new ringing season is always a reason to be optimistic
but a very hot day seemed not to be the best for opening. Eventually e were all
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2 <b>Barred Warbler</b> <i>Sylvia nisoria</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">סבכי
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>and the best of all: </b>1 juv. <b>Blackstart</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Cercomela melanura</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #545454;"> </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> <span lang="HE">שחור זנב</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They are regularly seen around Eilat region but are rarely caught at <st1:place><st1:placename>IBRCE</st1:placename>
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I've never ringed any Blackstart at the Park before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Things got even better thanks to spectacular visible migration of <b>European
Bee-eaters</b> <i>Merops apiaster</i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">שרקרק מצוי </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and some <b>Swallows</b> species:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">111 birds were ringed, best day so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another <b>Blackstart</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Cercomela melanura</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #545454;"> </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> <span lang="HE">שחור זנב</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
was ringed early in the morning, maybe part of the same family?</span></div>
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squamiceps</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">זנבן</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> jumped all together
into one net, calling and squeaking! Pure fun and lots of poop…! </span></div>
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יעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-26418898777462831952014-08-22T10:09:00.003+03:002014-08-22T10:09:47.433+03:00All I needed..!<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After this long uneasy summer all I
needed was another migration season. Although some early migrants were seen in
the end of June already it was not "it". Now, I'm happy to present
you the first post of autumn migration for 2014:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The migrants are here! Not only along
salty edged of some salt-ponds, not just along the shoreline, not only a single
glimpse at a disappearing bird deep in the bush… Despite the temperatures
outside we were already able to set some nets and make some short ringing
sessions (before it gets really hot, around <st1:time hour="9" minute="30">9:30am</st1:time>). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most common birds in the ringings
are still local, such as <b>White spectacled</b> <b>Bulbuls</b> <i>Pycnonotus
xanthopygos </i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">בולבול</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> , <b>House Sparrow</b> <i>Passer
domesticus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">דרור הבית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and some still very young&cute <span style="background: white;">Graceful </span><b>Prinia</b> <i>Prinia gracilis</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">פשוש</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the migrants section some nice
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Reed Warbler<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></b><span class="kno-fvzi"><i><span style="background: white;">Acrocephalus
scirpaceus</span></i></span><span class="kno-fvzi"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span class="kno-fvzi"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">קנית קטנה</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Reed Warbler<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></b><span class="kno-fvzi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><i><span style="background: white;">Acrocephalus scirpaceus</span></i></span><span class="kno-fvzi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span class="kno-fvzi" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">קנית קטנה</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Marsh Warbler</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Acrocephalus
palustris</span></i><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="background: white;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background: white;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">קנית ביצות</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Savi's Warbler </b><i><span style="background: white;">Locustella luscinioides</span></i><span style="background: white;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">חרגולן זמירי</span><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Orphean Warbler</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Sylvia
crassirostris</span></i><span style="background: white;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">סבכי חורש<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First <b>Willow Warbler</b> <i>Phylloscopus
trochilus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">עלווית
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First <b>Willow Warbler</b> <i>Phylloscopus trochilus</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">עלווית אפורה</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And even one <b>Masked Shrike</b> <i>Lanius
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around there are few more nice birds,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two <b><span style="background: white;">Lesser
Grey Shrike</span>s</b> <i>Lanius minor </i><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> חנקן שחור מצח <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few <b>Red-backed Shrikes</b> <i>Lanius
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ten (probably same birds seen every day)
<b>European Bee eaters</b> <i>Merops apiaster</i> <i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">שרקרק מצוי</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Rock Martins</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Hirundo fuligula/
obsoleta</span></i><span style="background: white;"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">סנונית מדבר</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are all eager to see
what will bring the next day, what will we see around in a week or two… Not to
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are reading this blog post now I presume you know that the situation in Israel is </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">neither
the happiest nor the most positive</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">. But, the sad/ upsetting news can be read in any news-website while the birding news from Israel are more rare online. I'll focus on the later then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Birding at Eilat now is divided into several categories: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Desert watching- walking in very hot places in very hot hours (even before sunrise it can be around 30C)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Sea watching- hoping for Tropicbirds but enjoying common local stuff in the meantime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. Office watching (not the birds found when searching on google, the birds seen through the window)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. Northern birding/ ringing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>1. Desert watching</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One warm afternoon I went with Liri Koplevitch and Shahar Alterman to birdwatch and snakewatch at Samar Sand Dunes. The first thing we saw wasn't, as expected normally, footprints. Not even a lizard. Just when we parked the car (next to the road, not driving on these miraculous dunes) a </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Hoopoe Lark</b> <i>Alaemon alaudipes</i> אלימון was running fastly away. Soon after we stood still it started checking us and came really close. Later on we had also some wonderful reptiles but that is for another blog...</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Desert horned Viper</b> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: left;"><i>Cerastes gasperettii</i> עכן גדול</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>2. Sea watching</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not too much to tell... lots of hours, lots of local birders visiting regularly, then came one guy from the north and took it all- A <b>Red-billed Tropicbird</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Phaethon aethereus indicus</i> פיתון ים סוף </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">was seen by Barak Granit on July 27th.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Besides that I managed to take a picture of this "crossbill" <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Striated Heron</b> <i>Butorides striatus</i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> אנפית מנגרובים. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>3. Office watching</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Summer is the time for sitting at the Information center and shop of the park to do some office duties, with some air conditioning: planning the next ringing season/ year of educational projects/ data analysis. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It can be very boring to sit so long... but, thanks to a small family of four <b>Arabian Babblers </b><i>Turdoides squamiceps</i> זנבן ערבי who are just in love with the windows of the center so it is actually hard to work and not watch them all day long! they watch themselves, they sit and comb each other, they attack the window, they are </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">visiting </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">all the time ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mid July is time for the monitoring project at Mt. Hermon, the northern + highest mountain in Israel where lots of cool species are breeding. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Our stuff joined a few other ringers and all together we enjoyed two
excellent ringing days</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">. Top ringed species were: <b>Linnet </b><i>Carduelis cannabina</i> תפוחית,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Syrian Serin</b> <i>Serinus syriacus</i> בזבוז לבנון, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and <b>Rock Bunting</b> <i>Emberiza cia</i> גבתון סלעים. The most special one, at least for me, was the <b>White throated Robin</b> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i>Irania</i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i> gutturalis</i> אירניה. This species is breeding in Israel only at Mt. Hermon but is not regularly seen and ringed only once every few years!</span></span></div>
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יעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-57996657619332914512014-07-11T11:23:00.000+03:002014-07-11T11:45:56.634+03:00"Pargiot"= Chick on a stick*<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The summer at Eilat is long and very very warm (39-48C in most days so far). Luckily, birds are functioning in such weather, providing a food distraction. In addition, some first autumn migrants are seen around, joining the local breeders, some summering species and the cutest: chicks+fledglings on a regular basis. Birds are definitely on the move. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When birding at
Eilat in early June it is highly recommended to focus on water... either at the
<st1:place><st1:placename>Northern</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place> or drinking
hotspots. When visiting the later, one must hide carefully to prevent any <span style="background: white;">disturbance (including using a cover, staying far
enough to watch without being too close etc.). In all cases keep on drinking
constantly if you don't want to observe weird flocks of dancing Hippos.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While birding
at the beach is more known, birding at <st1:place><st1:placename>Arava</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place> is for
the <span style="background: white;">tough ones (that's why I went birding
up north for 5 days...)</span>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-->to make
sure you know a little more, noted nowadays (best from </span><st1:time hour="5" minute="30" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5:30-7:30am</st1:time><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) at Northern Beach: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Bridled Tern</b> </span><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Onychoprion anaethetus</i> שחפית רסן, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1 Lesser Crested Tern</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Sterna bengalensis</i><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> שחפית בנגלית (last week)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Common </b>ים & <b>Little </b>גמדית <b>Terns </b>in nice numbers</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>White eyed Gul</b><b>l</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i>Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus</i> שחף לבן עין</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Striated Heron</b> <i>Butorides striatus</i> אנפית מנגרובים</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I came back to Eilat right on time to guide at the IBRCE Park and to ring some of the spring yield- Tens of juvenile <b>House Sparrows</b> <i>Passer domesticus</i> דרור בית and <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>White-spectacled</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">bulbul</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </span><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Pycnonotus</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> xanthopygos</span></i> בולבול with fewer yet amazingly cute juvenile <b>Rofous Bush </b><b>Robin</b> <i>Cercotrichas galactotes</i> חמריה חלודת זנב. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most
surprising was an <b>Olivaceous Warbler</b> <i>Iduna pallida</i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">שיחנית קטנה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. Normally,
some are seen heading south in this part of the summer but, Iv'e never seen any
of them stabbed, carrying a huge Acacia thorn. Perhaps from the nest, perhaps a
not very successful attempt of a shrike. The result is pretty much <span style="background: white;">astonishing: </span>It was in good
physical condition and seems to survive this injury well enough to load some
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was un removable so I cut the edges gently and released the poor thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Flocks of <b>Egyptian Geese</b> <i><span style="background: white;">Alopochen
aegyptiaca</span></i> <span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="background: white;">יאורית מצרית</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background: white;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>were noted at the end of February (all around southern Arava
Valley, during two weeks more or less), few stayed around in pairs (or single
in some cases). Two were observed during these months on a daily basis at the <st1:place><st1:placename>IBRCE</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> (<st1:place><st1:placename>Anita</st1:placename> <st1:placename>Lake</st1:placename></st1:place>). On the 10th we
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Not only feathers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not only the birds are breeding(!) and when watching a nice drinking spot at the Arava Valley two lovely pups of <b>Golden Jackals</b> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i>Canis aureus</i> תן זהוב</span> were watching me. Their mom didn't like it too much but they were so curious that they came up to 3 meters from me (a reminder- when birding at a drinking spot I'm covered).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*"Pargiot" is an Israeli dish which includes chicken
chicks <span style="background: white;">skewered on a "stick" cooked over a barbeque. The
Olivaceous Warbler reminded me this and that's the reason for this post's
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יעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-55387152386484980332014-06-23T12:32:00.000+03:002014-06-23T16:11:12.787+03:00Rolling Stones....<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all, Plaese- Make sure not to get near nesting birds/chicks, especially not for watching them oר photographing them. There are enough threats on them without these close encounters! In none of the images nearing the chicks was done for this purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">As
days go by at Eilat and summer is as hot as usual, we start to see how nature
overcomes the damage of the floods. It took few days till the water level
dropped enough so the <b>Black Winged Stilts</b> <i>Himantopus himantopus</i> תמירון were able to restore their nests in
the middle of the salt pond and lay new eggs. It took no longer than 25 days,
we were doing the weekly afternoon count with some of our kind volunteers, when
we noticed </span><st1:metricconverter productid="3 stones"><span style="line-height: 150%;">3 stones</span></st1:metricconverter><span style="line-height: 150%;"> rolling towards the
water. It wasn't stones but 3 tiny chicks who have just hatched. The adult Stilt was
still seated on the top of the rock, seem to be proud but paralyzed. It didn't
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with an extra chick- the reason for the adult's stagnant sitting last night!
They were observed while swimming towards shore. It is hard to say how many
nests there were and how many are successful but in the highest count we
counted 7 nests and now we know about 3 families at least, most of them are
only with a single chick. Is it possible that due to the delayed breeding, because
of the flood that washed away almost hatching eggs, it is now too hot for them?
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the past two weeks most of the puddles created by the flood dried out, the <b>Black Winged Stilts</b> <i>Himantopus himantopus</i> תמירון started breeding creating new nests and laying new eggs (for the moment, there are 9 nests at the IBRCE Park). Only one nests survived the flood and one chick is seen around. The <b>Spur winged Plovers</b> <i>Vanellus spinosus</i> סיקסק are more lucky, their nests are not on the water but a bit </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">further</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> away, three young families are feeding around. One chick is already carrying a ring proudly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition to the breeders, a flock of over 100 <b>Slender Billed Gulls</b> <i>Larus genei</i> שחף צר מקור are summering in the salt ponds, pretty high number. In the whole region there are about 500 all together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Passerine-wise, migration has ended yet some insane birds are here with us: Last <b>Golden Orioles</b> <i>Oriolus oriolus</i> זהבן are like yellow flashes in the heat, one late <b>Olive Tree Warbler</b> <i>Hippolais olivetorum</i> שיחנית זית is SINGING every morning in front of the closed ringin station and some last <b>Blackaps </b><i>Sylvia atricapilla</i> סבכי שחור כיפה are singing around randomly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's also fledging time- flocks of juvenile <b>House Sparrows</b> <i>Passer domesticus</i> דרור בית are all over the place, <b>Bulbuls </b><i>Pycnonotus xanthopygos</i> בולבול are chattering non stop and the <b>Namaqua Dove</b> <i>Oena capensis</i> תורית זנבנית is still laying on eggs while only the male is seen from time to time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the 21st of May I traveled to <a href="http://field%20school%20birdwatching%20center/" target="_blank">Hatzeva </a></span><span style="color: #2b2520; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 27px;"><a href="http://field%20school%20birdwatching%20center/" target="_blank">Field School Birdwatching Center</a> </span><span style="color: #2b2520; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 27px;">to help with ringing <b>Arabian Babblers's</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2520; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i>Turdoides squamiceps</i></span><span style="color: #2b2520; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 27px;"> זנבן chicks (as part of an amazing research project conducted there over 3 decades). It was a great experience!</span></div>
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יעל לנרד Yael Lehnardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14880255823251137225noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883065697923960946.post-32047449053380107472014-05-16T10:56:00.002+03:002014-05-16T10:56:11.024+03:00Happily ever after<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spring 2014 ringing season is all over now. after three months of ringing daily, the nets are closed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was very unusual spring, some species showed up in big numbers (like <b>Balkan Warbler</b> Phy<i>lloscopus orientalis</i> עלוית לבנת בטן or <b>Garden Warbler</b> <i>Sylvia borin</i> סבכי אפור) while others didn't show at all- most Wheatears, Buntings etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the past few days we were busy not only with ringing and guiding but also with fixing the floods damage. I'm glad to share with you that the IBRCE Park is now open again and looks almost as if nothing happened (yet some mud and flood markings are noticeable). We enjoyed watching the water evaporating slowly, the footprints all around..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the ringing not much was happening, with about 80-90 birds a day. The surprise of the week was this healthy <b>Corn Crake</b> <i>Crex crex</i> מלכישליו after observing (and collecting) many exhausted ones in the past two weeks. It's food to know some of them can weight over 130 grams not only in the books but also in real life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another wierd ringed bird is this <b>Olivaceous Warbler</b> <i>Iduna pallida</i> שיחנית קטנה covered with oil. It was not only darker and </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">greasier</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> than usual but also smelled like gasoline. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the salt ponds at K20 we enjoyed a lovely wave of migration with loads of Waders. The best, if you ask me, is this flock of 43 <b>Red-necked Phalaropes</b> <i>Phalaropus lobatus</i> שחיינית צרת מקור. There were also some <b>Curlew Sandpipers</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Calidris ferruginea</i> חופית מגלית</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and 7 <b>Broad Billed Sandpipers</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Limicola falcinellus</i> חרמשית</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. We couldn't relocate the <b>Pectoral Sandpiper</b> <i>Calidris melanotos</i> חופית כהת חזה found there a day before, May 12th, by Shachar Shalev. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>To sum this spring in the first stage, here are some totalls:</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Total captured birds- 7,265</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">New- 5,674</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Recapture- 1,589</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Species- 92</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; text-align: right;">Further</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> information and statistics will be published in the future...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yael Lehnardt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Head Ringer & Guide, IBRCE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Not only feathers</span></div>
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