ISRAEL – SPRING 2009

Courtsey of Peter Basterfield

Little Egret	Cattle Egret
Western Reef-heron	Squacco Heron
White Stork	White Storks
Black Storks	Greater Flamingoes
Black Kite	Common (Steppe) Buzzard
Common Kestrel	Lesser Kestrel
Sand Partridge	Common Quail
Common Cranes	Black-winged Stilt
Eurasian Thick-knee	Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover	Caspian Plover
Spur-winged Lapwing	Little Stint
Ruff	Slender-billed Gull
White-eyed Gull	Caspian Tern
Common Tern (longipennis)	White-winged Tern
Laughing Dove	Great Spotted Cuckoo
Desert Owl	Long-eared Owl
Nubian Nightjar	Alpine Swift
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater	Green Bee-eater
Syrian Woodpecker	Crested Lark
Desert Lark	White Wagtail
Western Yellow (Blue-headed) Wagtail	Western Yellow Wagtail
Yellow (Black-headed) Wagtail	White-spectacled Bulbul
Blackstart	Black Scrub-robin
Hooded Wheatear	White-tailed Wheatear
Arabian Warbler	Lesser Whitethroat
Graceful Prinia
Masked Shrike	Great Grey Shrike
Palestine Sunbird (male)	Palestine Sunbird (female)
Hooded Crow
Tristram's Starling	Tristram's Starling
Cretzschmar's Bunting	Ortolan Bunting