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Birds in the Mossad?

10,000 Birds

” How else to explain the highly suspicious European Bee-Eater Turkish authorities are currently investigating. Last year, vigilant Saudi Arabian officials detained an Israeli spy vulture yet apparently failed to foil the “Zionist espionage plot.” Birders of the world: if you see something, say something. (

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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

10,000 Birds

Looking for terns, White-eyed Gulls , and other seabirds from North Beach, Eilat, Israel during Champions of the Flyway. Make a goal : Investigate possible routes, take into account the amount of time possible at each spot, the percentage of common versus rare species, and come up with a reasonable number.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

10,000 Birds

Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. However, this makes it a bit surprising that it was also named Israel’s national bird. Ditto Grey Heron.

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