
The dunes at Nizzana, near the Egyptian border. This area is famed for several sandgrouse species and MacQueen’s Bustards, but we failed to find any.

Spraying locusts with insecticides has put birds like these migrating White Storks at risk and a number have been found dead.

Broad winged birds like storks avoid sea crossing where there are few thermals to enable them to soar. Having crossed the Sinai, so avoiding crossing the Red Sea, they will head north through Israel and Lebanon. From here they will either cross the Bosporus into eastern Europe or the Caucasus into western Asia.
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