1. Champions of the Flyway Eilat 2016
Mazal tov to Maj. Gen. (Res.) Doron Almog, Chairman of the Hoopoe Foundation who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for 2016 a day after the event in Eilat

2. We are very proud of Doron and Didi!
Mazal tov to Maj. Gen. (Res.) Doron Almog, Chairman of the Hoopoe Foundation, who came to the Champions of the Flyway with his wife Didi and were highly impressed with the event; with journalist Erez Erlichman from the biggest internet news site in Israel
We are very proud of Doron and Didi!

3. Dan Alon and Jonathan Meyrav are leading Champions of the Flyway for the third year; Yossi and Didi came for a day

4. Patricia Zurita, Chief Executive of BirdLife International, came for one day to learn about the activities and enjoyed a large variety of birds

5. Like the flamingos in the salt ponds of Eilat
Photo: Aharon Shimshon

7. Patricia with Noam Weiss, Director of the International Birding & Research Centre in Eilat

8. With the Spanish SEO team

9. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (NPA) wardens are always around

10. Ohad Hatzofe, the NPA bird ecologist, was a soldier of Doron in the IDF Kingfisher elite unit

11. The Swiss team from Sempach

13. Baruch Gian, a well-known photographer in Israel

14. Yael Lenard and Amir Balaban with a team of kids from a Jerusalem birding club

15. Amir Balaban and Doron Almog

16. The young birders play the key role in the Champions of the Flyway event
Photo: Yuval Dax

17. Yossi Eshbol, the leading bird photographer in Israel

19. About 100 team members funnel to the Northern beach at the end of the first day to identify more species coming from the sea
Photo: Yossi Eshbol

24. Photo: Yossi Eshbol

25. What a successful partnership!
Photo: Baruch Gian

26. The grandfather of the youngster on the right of Yossi Leshem is Prof
The grandfather of the youngster on the right of Yossi Leshem is Prof. Uri Marinov’s grandson; Uri was the first CEO of the Ministry of Environment in Israel
Photo: Baruch Gian

27. Photo: Baruch Gian

28. Hadas Katz Sdeh Chen (red sweatshirt) with her young team
Photo: Yuval Dax

29. Shlomit Lipshitz, Zahala Brosh and Orna Gemmer – 3 ladies deeply involved in birding in Israel

30. Moishe Levy with the team from the Agamon Hula
Photo: Yuval Dax

31. You speak about Israel birding in the world and everyone asks you if you know Hadoram Shirihai (right)
Hadoram’s fiancée (left) is a Gynecologist

32. At the Eilat birding park with Zadok Zemach

34. Doron with Nir Papay, the Deputy CEO of the SPNI and VP Environmental Protection

35. The Tel Aviv University team

36. Patricia feels at home with all the teams

39. The leaders Yoav Perlman, Dan Alon and Jonathan Meyrav

42. Modern technologies led by Yuval Dax (center)

44. Photo: Yuval Dax

45. Photo: Baruch Gian

46. Photo: Yuval Dax

47. All the participants at the final breakfast

48. Photo: Yuval Dax

49. Bill Thompson (center) with Jonathan and Dan; Bill did outstanding PR for the Champions of the Flyway

50. Photo: Yuval Dax

51. Eyal and Tal Bartov documented the four teams sponsored by Zeiss

53. Dan and Jonathan led the ceremony

54. The Mayor of Eilat, Meir Yitzhak Halevi, opened the greetings session

55. Patricia Zurita got everybody excited with her speech

56. The Finnish winning team, with 174 species
Photo: Yuval Dax

58. Barak Granit speaks on behalf of the Israeli winning team

59. The Ma’agan Michael team, Guardians of the Flyway and second place with 167 species

61. Inbal Goldshtein studies terns on the coast, with a big smile of satisfaction

62. Bill Thompson and his team

63. A check of $69,000 raised by all the teams for BirdLife Greece

67. All the children who participated in the competition on the stage
Photo: Yuval Dax

68. Bill Thompson composed and sang the Champions of the Flyway song with all the children

70. See you at the Champions of the Flyway in 2017!
Photo: Roni Livne