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In the last 30 years the the migratory bird population in Israel has dropped by more than 10%, according to KKL-JNF, due in part to climate change and the bird flu epidemic.
Making its way down south for fall migration, bird of prey found in northern Israel’s Agamon Hula with gunshot wound and hoped to be back in the wild within months
Airports Authority is urged change to flight paths to avoid 500 million birds traversing Israel, a biannual 'aviation safety issue par excellence'
The birds — Europe’s only long-distance migratory dove — spend a third of the year at their breeding grounds in the Mediterranean — including Israel — and Europe, overwintering in the African Sahel. A European turtle dover shot dead by a ‘sport’ hunter in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, September 2, 2020. (KKL-JNF Chief Birdwatcher, Yaron Cherka) Their numbers have been in freefall since the 1970s. Down by 50 percent in Europe over the last 16 years, drops of more than 90% have been recorded in countries such as the UK. In light of this rapid decline, the International Unio...
Rufous-tailed scrub-robin. (Yoav Perlman) Habitat loss, hunting and climate change are taking a serious toll on bird populations in Israel, a leading ornithologist warned this week. Israel forms a terrestrial bottleneck between wintering grounds in Africa and breeding grounds in Europe and Asia, making it a prime crossing point for some 200 species. Some 500 million birds fly across the country every spring and fall, attracting thousands of birders from all over the world. However, many flocks that pass through are thinning out due to planetary warming that sends them north to breed earlier t...