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Highs and Lows from the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel

10,000 Birds

Today, I am writing about another very birdy place and an event that I was very fortunate to have experienced, the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel. Lesser Spotted Eagle was also seen several times along with Steppe Eagle. Booted Eagl e- I had a hard time recognizing the dark morph of this one.

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Madikwe; Paradise Restored

10,000 Birds

And so South Africa’s fifth largest park came to be (it’s worth remembering that its largest park, Kruger, is the size of Israel) on marginal land that no one in particular could do much with. A Shaft-tailed Whydah, a member of a small African family of cuckoo-finches. Purple Roller.