Too much C#c$ine...
The amazing red eye of the Eared Grebe shone back at me this morning near home.

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MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Black-winged Kite at sunrise this morning. Bet Shemesh in the background
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Rook is a scarce winter visitor to Israel. Therefore, it was a pleasure to watch several birds so well as they stole pecan nuts from a nearby plantation and displayed their brilliant iridescent plumage. They're hugely under-rated IMO!

Birds of the World - Birds of the World adds Portuguese to growing language offerings Language should never be a barrier to learning about birds. When we launched automatic translations into Spanish, the number of logged in users from Central and South America more than doubled — and w...

In case you missed this big news! The entire corpus of Birds of the World is now available in Portuguese! We hope Portuguese-speakers worldwide will find this useful!

birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/por...

17 seconds of red-footed loveliness. I shot this video near home this morning with my phone through Swarovski Optik ATX85

New blog - non-stop birding:
www.yoavperlman.com/2025/11/non-...

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Pleased to find this crisp 1cy Pectoral Sandpiper at Maagan Michael this morning. Not a mega rarity anymore, it is still a good rarity in Israel, just about annual.
I found it during a 10-minute point count while monitoring our restoration project there.
Digiscoped through SWAROVSKI OPTIK ATX85

Phenomenal birding in Kfar Ruppin:
www.yoavperlman.com/2025/09/phen...

Note to self: Don't listen to the news! Don't listen to the news! Just look up and admire awesome Honey Buzzard migration.

This straight-off-the-phone video was taken this morning in Kfar Ruppin

The lunar eclipse over Israel, taken through Swarovski Optik ATX85

Hula Painted Frog! Read the story of one of the world's rarest amphibians in my blog:
www.yoavperlman.com/2025/03/hula...

How I missed you guys, welcome back

Rüppell's Warbler, Arsuf, Israel, 22 February 2025

Two generations of #eBird caps

GNSS spoofing in conflict zones disrupts wildlife tracking and hampers research and conservation efforts - Nature Communications In war and conflict zones, the jamming of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNNS) signals by military forces disrupts the tracking of tagged animals, and has increased in frequency following the rec...

Happy to share our new publication in
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with Frédéric Jiguet et. al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello Bluesky! My first post here, Brown-necked Raven from this morning in the Negev, Israel