Birds of Palestine

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Chapters: Nightingale, Common Buzzard, Thrush Nightingale, Osprey, List of birds of Palestine, Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, Black Kite, Yellow Wagtail, Chukar Partridge, Montagu's Harrier, White-throated Kingfisher, Green Bee-eater, Hen Harrier, Great Cormorant, Marsh Warbler, Black-winged Stilt, Blackcap, Griffon Vulture, Honey Buzzard, Common Tern, Aquila, Northern Wheatear, Sardinian Warbler, Lesser Kestrel, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Lesser Whitethroat, Great Reed Warbler, Short-toed Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Bonelli's Eagle, Booted Eagle, Subalpine Warbler, Palestine Sunbird, Little Owl, Marsh-harrier, Orphean Warbler, Ringed Plover, Mistle Thrush, Moustached Warbler, Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush, Spectacled Warbler, European Bee-eater, Blue Rock-thrush, Great Black-headed Gull, Clamorous Reed-warbler, Sooty Falcon, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Red-billed Tropicbird, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Black-eared Wheatear, Garden Warbler, White-eyed Gull, Long-legged Buzzard, Barred Warbler, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Armenian Gull, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Wood Warbler, Cream-coloured Courser, Rüppell's Warbler, Desert Warbler, Levant Sparrowhawk, Cyprus Warbler, Mourning Wheatear, Graceful Prinia, Desert Wheatear, Pink-backed Pelican, White-crowned Wheatear, Sand Partridge, Olive-tree Warbler, Upcher's Warbler, Hooded Wheatear, Red-rumped Wheatear, Streaked Scrub-warbler, Arabian Wheatear. Excerpt: This is a list of the bird species recorded in Palestine. The avifauna of Palestine is unusually rich for so small an area. Henry B. Tristram, who identified much of the avifauna of Palestine in an 1885 study which denoted the geographical scope as covering an area of 5, 600 square miles (14, 504 km), identified 348 species: 271 Palearctic, 40 Ethiopian (10 of which are also Indian), 7 Indian, and 30 peculiar to Syria. The number of species identified has since grown considerably and is expected to grow further as the number of active ornithologists in the region grows. Today, there are 470 species, classified in 206 genera, belonging to 67 families and grouped in 21 orders. Orders containing the largest numbers of species are: Passeriformes (songbirds) with 192 species, Charadriiformes (waders, plovers, gulls) with 88 species, Falconiformes (diurnal birds of Prey) with 44 species, and Anseriformes (swans, geese, ducks) with 33 species. The largest families are: Sylviidae (warblers) with 43 species, Turdidae (thrushes, chats) and Anatidae (swans, geese, ducks), both with 33 species, and Accipitridae (eagles, vultures, hawks) with 32 species. The most populous genera are: Sylvia (warblers) with 15 species, Emberiza (buntings) with 14, and Larus (gulls) with 13, while Oenanthe (wheatears), Sterna (terns) and Falco (falcons) each comprise 11 species. The different types of avifauna are not equally diffused over the whole area. The Palearctic species are found largely in the coastal area of the Mediterranean Sea and the highlands east and west of Jordan. The Ethiopian and Indian types are almost exclusively confined to the Dead Sea basin. There are thirty species of migratory soaring birds that pass through Palestine annually. The Golden Eagle appears of the crest of the Palestinian National Authority and is a winter visitor to PalestineOrder: Falconiformes Family: Accipitridae Order: Gruiformes Family: Gruidae Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae Rallidae is a large family