AboutMy interest in zoology started when I was a primary school boy who enjoyed going out to the field to watch and track animals ranging from arthropods to reptiles to bats to fish. Later, when I started my high school studies, I started bird watching, a hobby that led me to become a volunteer at the Jerusalem Birds Observatory (JBO) and to start my first scientific study, which dealt with the diet of owls. Thanks to the guidance of JBO staff, as well as researchers from Tel-Aviv University, this early study produced two research papers. At the same time, I made my first steps towards becoming a bird-ringer at the JBO. I got my basic bird-ringing license in autumn 2004 and quickly started trapping and marking birds at several sites across Israel. Since 2004, I have ringed more than 200,000 birds and gained a lot of experience running fieldwork. In 2010, I started working as the coordinator of the Israeli Bird Ringing Center (IBRC) of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), and later became its manager. I received BSc from the Open University, MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and PhD from the University of Haifa.
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Pallid Scops-Owl (Otus brucei) |