Jerusalem, Israel. 11th, Oct, 2026. Researchers with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) band a migrating songbird at the Jerusalem Bird Observatory in Jerusalem. Operating adjacent to Israel's parliament, the 1.5 acre site acts as a key research hub along the African Eurasian Flyway, one of the world's major avian highways, where hundreds of millions of birds travel south from breeding grounds in Europe and Asia to wintering sites in Africa each fall. Qualified ringers catch, measure, record, and safely release thousands of birds to monitor migration patterns and track p

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