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The bird that weighs like a teaspoon of sugar and has arrived in the country
It weighs only 5 grams, and yet makes a grueling journey and comes to us these days from Europe and in large numbers.
Winter Foliage is one of the smallest and toughest migrants passing through here, and if you go out on the street chances are you can listen to its pleasant whistles
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Ziv Reinstein
Wednesday, 04 November 2020, 10:12
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Winter foliage (Photo: Avner Rinot, Society for the Protection of Nature)
There is no doubt that we are currently at the height of seasonal migration, and the numbers that are published from time to time speak of half a billion winged birds passing through the skies of Israel every year.
Almost every Israeli is familiar with the migration of storks, pelicans and cranes, while the migration of birds of prey is also a familiar phenomenon to many.
What is less known, however, is that about 350 million songbirds visit Israel every year on their way to the hot countries.
Dan Alon, director of the Israeli Birding Center at the Society for the Protection of Nature, says that about 280 species of birds migrate through Israel every year, a fact that makes us a birding powerhouse and a bird paradise, but most attention is given to large birds.
"In the current period of late autumn and October-November, tens of millions of songbirds of many species - pheasants, winters, crackers, kites, bluebirds, white snails and more - come from the sea to the shores of Israel in 'active migration'. "Most wing blows are used. Most of these birds migrate at night, and we birds usually see and document them at their stopping sites - fields, groves, gardens, waterways and the like," he adds.
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In the spring they will return
One of these special songbirds is winter foliage, or green whistling in its old name.
This songbird weighs only 5-7 grams (half a bag of ketchup you get in a restaurant or a teaspoon of sugar) and yet makes a grueling journey and comes to us for the winter months from Central Europe and Russia in very large numbers, right these days.
Some of the individuals will continue further south to North Africa and some will stay with us for the entire winter months and in the spring will return back to the nesting sites in the north.
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Consider like half a bag of ketchup you get at a restaurant.
Winter foliage (Photo: Avner Rinot, Society for the Protection of Nature)
This week you will see and hear it
According to the Israeli Birding Site of the Society for the Protection of Nature, the winter foliage is one of the smallest and toughest migrants we pass and if you go out into the street, chances are you can listen to their characteristic whistles, which gave them the old Hebrew oil.
"In the coming week, with the long-awaited weather change, significant migratory waves are expected in all parts of the country," explains Avner Rinot, a surveyor in the Urban Nature Surveillance Unit at the Society for the Protection of Nature, "but especially along the coast. The winter foliage
is one of the most widespread species, from Western Europe, through the Middle East and east in Asia almost to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. "Even in Mount Hermon we found it for the first time, in a survey we conducted a few years ago. For years, "he adds. The
Society for the Protection of Nature states that migratory birds are extremely important for maintaining the stability of our planet." The services they provide to nature, such as pollination, pest control, sowing, fertilization and clearing space from pests and organic waste, Our environment is free of infections and diseases.
Therefore, maintaining the migratory path that passes through Israel is essential for the quality of life on Earth and ultimately protects us humans, even from epidemics.
The Society for the Protection of Nature invests a lot of resources and efforts to maintain the migration path that passes through us for us and for future generations, "concludes Dan Alon.
One of the smallest and toughest migrants we pass.
Winter foliage (Photo: Avner Rinot, Society for the Protection of Nature)
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