Simon Awad
Environmental Education Center in Palestine (EEC), P. O. Box 67765,
East Jerusalem, Palestine
cpneai@p-ol.com, sija9@yahoo.com
The Environmental Education Center is running two ringing stations in
Palestine in two different Ecosystems:
The first: Talitha Kumi monitoring and ringing station is found inside the
campus of Talitha Kumi School in the Western Mountains of Bethlehem which
located to the South-West of Jerusalem between 31° 41' N and 35° 09' E. They
have altitude between 700 - 913 m above the sea level. The ringing station
covers about 40 dunums (4 dunums = acre). We have started ringing since
10/03/2000. We caught 3140 birds in the period of (2000 to 2007); we ring
twice a week on migration seasons: spring (15/2-30/5) and autumn (15/8-
30/11). The most numerous species are Sylvia atricapilla and Sylvia curruca.
332 orientation experiments had been done on different species. A Phylloscopus
collybita with Tel-Aviv University was trapped.
The second: Jericho monitoring and ringing station that is located in the
rift valley. The ringing station covers about 30 dunums. We have started ringing
since 14/04/2000. The station was inactive in the last five years, we reactive it
in the spring of 2007, two ringing days were done in which we caught 101 birds
with 19 different species. A Sylvia curruca ringed in Jericho was reported from
Poland in 28 days.




