EventOn a mid‑October Friday, birdwatcher Miriam Al‑Sirhan recorded a buff‑breasted sandpiper at the Pora Reservoir in the northern Negev. This was the second time the species has been documented in Israel, the first being a 2018 sighting at Kibbutz Ga'ash.
A North American buff‑breasted sandpiper was spotted at Israel’s Pora Reservoir in October, marking the second time the Arctic‑breeding bird appears in the country and raising questions about climate‑driven migration changes.
A buff‑breasted sandpiper, a globally vulnerable Arctic species, was sighted in northern Negev, Israel, marking only the second time the bird has been recorded there.