The Eilat region in Israel is a bottleneck for migratory birds passing from Europe and Asia to Africa. Each spring half a billion birds pass through this region on the return journey to their breeding grounds in Europe and Asia. Many of these birds are endangered and most face dwindling populations due to habitat loss, […]
The Basalt Wheatear is still present and while many birders came to search for it. Also to enjoy the many Asian Desert & Spectacled Warblers. It’s been very long since a Kurdish Wheatear was seen around the Southern Arava.
Here you will find the most updated records of the area which I would try and upload as frequently as possible.
STOP THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF MIGRATING BIRDS AND DONATE HERE! Last year editor Gert Ottens from Birdlife Netherlands, AGAMI photographers Marc Guyt and Martijn Verdoes together with Ken Billington, founder of Focusing on Wildlife, joined the Champions of the Flyway in Eilat, Israel. Aptly named Champions of the Flyway Sprinters we joined this extraordinary bird race […]
The magic of migration has always attracted me. Living at a coastal migration hotspot in the Netherlands, I spent my birding childhood glued to a small hill just north of Katwijk. This small hill overlooked beautiful dunes, and this was our theater in autumn – the site for 100,000’s of migrating birds to pass through, […]
Champions of the Flyway is a major new international bird race taking place in Eilat, Israel – one of the world’s most spectacular migration hot spots and rewarding birding destinations. Competing teams from around the world will try to find, identify and log as many species as possible – as they go head to head […]