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| Palestine Sunbird |
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| Steppe Buzzard |
Day 1
Depart Toronto. Flight to Tel Aviv via Rome.
Day 2
Arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv. Pick-up rental car. Travel north to Kibbutz Nahsholim on the Mediterranian coast. Birding the grounds of the kibbutz. Night at Kibbutz Nahsholim.
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| Eurasian Hoopoe |
Birding the fish ponds of Ma'agan Michael. Tour of Caesarea National Park. Travel to the Hula Valley via Nazareth. Night at Hula Valley.
Day 4
Morning birding at Qatsrin & Gamla Nature Reserve. Afternoon tour of historical sites in Galilee: Yardenit River Jordan, Tiberias, Capernaum & Bethsaida. Night at Hula Valley.
Day 6
Morning birding at Kfar Ruppin & Mount Gilboa. Travel south through the West Bank (Palestinian Territories) to Jericho and west to Jerusalem. Night in Jerusalem.
Day 7
Tour of the Old City of Jerusalem: Temple Mount, Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, City of David & Hezekiah's Tunnel. Night in Jerusalem.
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| Arabian Babbler |
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| Lesser Egyptian Jerboa |
Day 8
Morning tour of the Mount of Olives, Church of Mary Magdaline, Dominus Flevit, Gethsemane & Absalom's Pillar. Depart Jerusalem travelling thorugh the West Bank south to Ein Gedi. Tour of Masada. Night at SPNI Field School Ein Gedi.
Day 9
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| Temple Mount |
Birding Wadi Davd & Wadi Arugot. Bathing in the Dead Sea. Night at SPNI Field School Ein Gedi.
Day 10
Travel to Eilat, birding en route at Mount Sodom & Ein Tamar. Attend opening event of Eilat Birding Festival. Night in Eilat.
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| Nubian Ibex |
Morning at the Eilat bird banding station. Snorkelling on the reef at Coral Beach. Evening birding at km 20 ponds and vicinity. Night in Eilat.
Day 12
Birding with guide Etai Shanni at Paran, Nizzana, Ramon Crater & Sde Boker. Evening presentation by Yoav Perlman on bird conservation in Israel. Night in Eilat. |
| Semi-collared Flycatcher |
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| Collared Pratincole |
Day 13
Birding with guide Noam Weiss at Yotvata, Uvda Valley & Kibbutz Lotan. Evening at Yotvata for nightjar tour. Night in Eilat.
Day 14
Birding with guide Noam Weiss at Hollad Park, Eilat Mountains, Eilat bird banding station & km 25 date palm plantation. Evening birding tour of km 20 ponds and the north beach. Evening presentation by Martin Garner on finding rarities. Night in Eilat.
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| Thick-billed Lark |
Birding with guide Etai Shanni at Eilat Mountains and Eilat bird banding station. Evening birding at the north beach and km 19 water treatment ponds. Night in Eilat.
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Day 17
Depart Tel Aviv. Arrive in Toronto via Rome.
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| Crowned Sandgrouse |
Bird List
- Common Shelduck
- Gadwall
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Mallard
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Pintail
- Garganey
- Green-winged Teal
- Marbled Teal
- Chukar
- Sand Partridge
- Common Quail
- Little Grebe
- Greater Flamingo
- Black Stork
- White Stork
- Brown Booby
- Great Cormorant
- Pygmy Cormorant
- Great White Pelican
- Gray Heron
- Purple Heron
- Great Egret
- Little Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Squacco Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Glossy Ibis
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Osprey
- Black Kite
- Egyptian Vulture
- Eurasian Griffon
- Short-toed Eagle
- Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
- Northern Harrier
- Pallid Harrier
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Common Buzzard
- Long-legged Buzzard
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Steppe Eagle
- Booted Eagle
- Eurasian Kestrel
- Barbary Falcon
- Macqueen's Bustard
- Eurasian Moorhen
- Eurasian Coot
- Common Crane
- Eurasian Thick-knee
- Spur-winged Plover
- Kentish Plover
- Common Ringed Plover
- Little Ringed Plover
- Black-winged Stilt
- Pied Avocet
- Common Sandpiper
- Green Sandpiper
- Spotted Redshank
- Common Greenshank
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
- Common Redshank
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Little Stint
- Temminck's Stint
- Dunlin
- Ruff
- Common Snipe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Cream-colored Courser
- Collared Pratincole
- Slender-billed Gull
- Black-headed Gull
- Sooty Gull
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Armenian Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Sandwich Tern
- Spotted Sandgrouse
- Black-bellied Sandgrouse
- Crowned Sandgrouse
- Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
- Rock Pigeon
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Namaqua Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Common Cuckoo
- Egyptian Nightjar
- Alpine Swift
- Common Swift
- Pallid Swift
- Little Swift
- Common Kingfisher
- White-throated Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
- Green Bee-eater
- Eurasian Hoopoe
- Syrian Woodpecker
- Southern Gray Shrike
- Masked Shrike
- Woodchat Shrike
- Eurasian Jay
- House Crow
- Hooded Crow
- Brown-necked Raven
- Fan-tailed Raven
- Greater Hoopoe-Lark
- Desert Lark
- Thick-billed Lark
- Bimaculated Lark
- Greater Short-toed Lark
- Crested Lark
- Bank Swallow
- Rock Martin
- Barn Swallow
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Common House-Martin
- Sombre Tit
- Great Tit
- Eurasian Wren
- White-spectacled Bulbul
- Scrub Warbler
- Common Chiffchaff
- Eastern Bonelli's Warbler
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Clamorous Reed-Warbler
- Graceful Prinia
- Blackcap
- Eastern Orphean Warbler
- Greater Whitethroat
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Cyprus Warbler
- Rueppell's Warbler
- Sardinian Warbler
- Arabian Babbler
- Common Nightingale
- Bluethroat
- European Pied Flycatcher
- Semicollared Flycatcher
- Common Redstart
- Black Redstart
- Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
- Blue Rock-Thrush
- Stonechat
- Blackstart
- White-tailed Wheatear
- Hooded Wheatear
- Northern Wheatear
- Mourning Wheatear
- Finsch's Wheatear
- Pied Wheatear
- Cyprus Wheatear
- Black-eared Wheatear
- Desert Wheatear
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Eurasian Blackbird
- Common Myna
- Tristram's Starling
- Palestine Sunbird
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Citrine Wagtail
- White Wagtail
- Tawny Pipit
- Tree Pipit
- Red-throated Pipit
- American Pipit
- Cinereous Bunting
- Ortolan Bunting
- Cretzschmar's Bunting
- Reed Bunting
- Corn Bunting
- Common Chaffinch
- Trumpeter Finch
- European Greenfinch
- European Goldfinch
- European Serin
- House Sparrow
- Spanish Sparrow
- Indian Silverbill
Mammal List
- Desert Hedgehog
- bat sp.
- Cape Hare
- gerbil sp.
- Lesser Egyptian Jerboa
- Coypu
- Golden Jackal
- Red Fox (desert morph)
- Eurasian Otter
- Egyptian Mongoose
- Nubian Ibex
- Mountain Gazelle
- Dorcas Gazelle
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