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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

10,000 Birds

The discovery of a Black Bush-robin had several teams re-adjusting their itineraries… Two rare birds that were not on the official race bird-list due to the sensitivity of disturbance by multiple teams were the newly described Desert Tawny Owl and the Nubian Nightjar (a bird that has been reduced to approximately a dozen pairs in Israel).

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