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An urban crow collects plastic to build its nest in the city center of Jerusalem. March 6, 2013. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90/ File)
May 20, 2026, 10:21 am
Bullying crows attack children, parents at Tel Aviv kindergarten
Birds swooping down and assaulting people, with some drawing blood; municipality cites annual phenomenon of adults protecting chicks as they learn to fly
By ToI Staff
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a missile fired from Lebanon toward Israel caused damage in Kiryat Shmona, March 24, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
March 29, 2026, 2:20 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 29 – Northerners feel grim amid war but firm on need to defeat Hezbollah
Reporters Diana Bletter and Sue Surkes discuss sense of isolation in Kiryat Shmona and Haifa, trauma help for Arab Israelis, and hospitals’ efforts to treat patients underground
By Jessica Steinberg, Sue Surkes and Diana Bletter
Two falcons at the entrance to their nest, May 30, 2007. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)
March 24, 2026, 3:44 pm
Road racket killing the mood for birds breeding in half of Israel’s open spaces – study
First-of-its-kind soundscape also suggests that traffic sounds may negatively impact 23% of environmentally protected areas
By Sue Surkes
Gray Cranes at the Hula Lake Park in the Hula valley in northern Israel, November 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
March 10, 2026, 4:50 pm
War will not interrupt annual migration of millions of birds through Israel — expert
Even the conflict will not stop birds from rushing to get the best nesting spots in their usual breeding areas, says KKL-JNF chief ornithologist
By Sue Surkes
US President Donald Trump smiles before he delivers remarks at a Nevada Republican volunteer recruiting event in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 8, 2023 (MARIO TAMA / Getty Images via AFP)
December 31, 2025, 11:17 pm
Trump eagle-minded post tilts at windmills, crash lands in Israel
US president blasts wind farms for ‘killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles,’ but misses on both the species and the spot
By AFP
160 million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (Tel Aviv University)
December 16, 2025, 11:48 am
New Israeli fossil research shows some winged dinosaurs lost ability to fly
Study of molting patterns in fossilized colored feathers suggests evolution of dinosaurs and birds was ‘more complex than previously believed,’ says ornithologist
By Sue Surkes
A barn owl at the Attica Zoological Park, near Athens, on January 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stravrakis)
January 29, 2025, 3:40 pm
An unlikely symbol of cooperation, the barn owl unites Jordanian and Israeli scientists
Experts from 12 countries convene in Greece for project that began as Jordanian-Israeli collaboration to protect rodent-eating bird of prey that is boon to farmers across Mideast
By Derek Gatopoulos
In this photo taken on October 15, 2017, a Great White Pelican prepares to land in the Mishmar HaSharon reservoir in the Hefer Valley, central Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 3, 2022, 5:49 am
Israel cutting back on feeding migrating pelicans to keep new bird flu outbreak away
After disease spread to wild birds last year, the INPA says feeding programs that concentrated them were part of the problem, though unclear if new policy will also apply to cranes
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a Barn Owl. (photo credit: CC BY-SA paddynapper, Flickr)
September 8, 2022, 7:08 pm
Israeli use of barn owls to control rodents heading to N. Africa, UAE
‘We failed with the dove of peace. The barn owl is doing much better,’ says veteran ornithologist and project creator Yossi Leshem
By Sue Surkes
A dead common kestrel at the foot of a wind turbine at Sirin in 2017. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
July 20, 2022, 5:19 am
Environment minister seeks moratorium on new wind farms to probe impact on nature
Ministry says 200 new turbines, some as high as Israel’s tallest towers, planned for gusty Golan and other areas, endangering wildlife, with protective tech having ‘zero effect’
By Sue Surkes
The first Israeli fishpond to undergo rewilding by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and to be tested as a basis for carbon credits by Terrra, Kfar Ruppin, March 27, 2022. (Shai Ben Aharon)
May 10, 2022, 4:22 am
Drain the swamp? Israeli startup sees green bonanza in rewilding wetlands instead
‘Israel’s first nature-based carbon trading project’ sees Terrra working with ecology group to rehab fishponds, sell pollution credits and create vital stops for migrating birds
By Sue Surkes
Eurasian golden oriole specimens from the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University. (TAU)
April 5, 2022, 8:26 pm
Study: Birds in Israel may be changing shape in response to global warming
TAU researchers suggest morphological changes enable birds to shed more heat; but they worry that as planet continues to warm, birds may run out of coping mechanisms
By Sue Surkes
A huge flock of birds can be seen suddenly dying and falling from the sky in northern Mexico, Feb. 7, 2022. (screenshot)
February 14, 2022, 6:20 pm
In Mexico mystery, video shows flock of birds falling from the sky
While cause of mass death unclear, local vet suggests the winged creatures could have died from inhaling toxic smoke or perching on power line during an overload
By ToI Staff
Gathering the carcasses of wild cranes killed by avian flu at the Hula Lake Nature Reserve in northern Israel, December 27. (Hadas Kahaner, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
December 29, 2021, 9:09 pm
Avian flu killing birds in Israel could jump to humans, warns epidemiologist
Prof. Amnon Lahad calls prospect of virus crossing species ‘very concerning,’ as Health Ministry advises Israelis to avoid sick birds and not to buy unregulated chicken, eggs
By Nathan Jeffay
A houbara bustard in flight. (Shmulik Ya'ari, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 27, 2021, 5:19 am
Israeli population of endangered dancing bird seen leveling off
Rangers count 400 nationwide, 246 of them in Negev Desert, but dangers still threaten rare fowl known for distinctive mating jig
By Sue Surkes
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