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Monthly Summaries
April 2009Barak Granit Below is a summary featuring the most interesting observations from this month, based on reports from the ISRABIRDNET mailing list and other sources. | |||||||||
| Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus): 1 over Nahal Dishon on the 9th (Chen Rozen); 1 at Alonei Habashan (Golan Heights) on the 9th (Dotan Yosha) | |||||||||
| Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo): 1 at Timurim from the 18th onwards (Ezer Miller et al). | |||||||||
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| Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus): 1 juv plumage at north Beach Eilat on the 6th (Barak Granit, Eyal Shochat) | |||||||||
| Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo): 1 at Timurim from the 18th onwards (Ezer Miller et al) | |||||||||
| Caspian Plover (Charadrius asiaticus): 3 on 14th, km 20 (JBO team); 4 at k.20 on the 23rd (Eric Didner), 3 at K.20 on the 7 (Barak Granit); 1 at Hamieyshar on the 3rd (Yochai Koren) | |||||||||
| Great Snipe (Gallinago media): 1 caught and ringed at Hula refloded lake on 31st March (Nadav Israli & Yosef Kiat) | |||||||||
| Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus): 12 at North Beach on the 16th (Shachar Alterman) | |||||||||
| Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos): 1 at K.20 on 23rd (Eric Didner). 9th Israeli Record if accepted. | |||||||||
| Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus): – 1 adult at Maagan Michael on the 14th (Shai Agmon) | |||||||||
| Audouin's Gull (Larus audouinii): 1st summer bird at Maagan Michael on the 13th (Barak Granit & Tomer Landsberger) | |||||||||
| Sabine's Gull (Larus sabini): The 3rd record for israel was of a 1st summer bird, found in Maagan Michael fish ponds on the 23rd (Asaf Meyroz & Shy Agmon) and stay onwards, enabling most of the Israeli Birders to twitch it successfully. | |||||||||
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| Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus): 1 juv plumage at north Beach Eilat on the 6th (Barak Granit, Eyal Shochat). | |||||||||
| Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia): 2 at Tel-Aviv Harbour on the 9th (Daniel Gelbert). | |||||||||
| Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus): 1 at Atlit on the 6th (Yochai). | |||||||||
| Egyptian Nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius): 2 during mid aprl at Yotvata (Noam Weiss et al). | |||||||||
| Namaqua Dove (Oena capensis): 1 at Maagan Michael on the 29th (Rami Mizrachi et al). | |||||||||
| Menetries's Warbler (Sylvia mystacea): 1 ringed at the IBRCE ringing station on the 15th (Noam Weiss et al). | |||||||||
| White-throated Robin (Irania gutturalis): The only report for this spring was of a male seen briefly in Kibutz En-gedi on the 3rd. (Yoav Perlman). | |||||||||
| Cyprus Wheatear (Oenanthe cypriaca): – 1 male at Hasharon Reserve north to Tel Aviv on the 3rd. | |||||||||
| Ficedula Flycatchers (Ficedula sp.): large numbers, mainly Collard but some Pied and Semi-Collards among them (15-50 Collards per location), were reported between 15th-18th Of the month from verious places including Southern Arava, Mitzpe Ramon, Sde Boker, Yerucham Lake, Meytar, Lahav, Jehuda Plain, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Ramat Handaiv Beit Shean Valley and more. Max: 50 at Yerucham Lake and 49 ringed in Jerusalem. | |||||||||
| Semi-Collard Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata): apart from the birds seing with the big wave of the Collard's, there was also small wave of Semi-Collard Flycatchers on the first days of the month at the Negev and Arava. Max: 3 birds at Samar on the 2nd (Shachar Alterman). | |||||||||
| Rose Coloured Starling (Sturnus roseus): at Maagan Michael on the 29th (T. Kahn et al). | |||||||||
| Cinereous Bunting (Emberiza cineracea): 4 at Wadi Zvia on the 3rd (Avner Rinot); 6 at Kochav Hashachar on the same day (Rami Mizrachi). | |||||||||
| Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella): 1 at southern Arava on the 16th (Jonathan Meyrav). | |||||||||
 Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) Eilat salt pans, Mar.06 |
 Nubian Nightjar (Caprimulgus nubicus) Southern Dead-sea, Mar.06 |
 Hooded Wheatear (Oenanthe monacha) Arava valley, Oct.05 |
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