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Gold 2019 Nature / Wildlife

Gray Cranes

  • Photographer
    Jorge Novominsky
  • Prize
    Gold in Nature / Wildlife

Gray Cranes at the Agamon Hula Lake in the Hula valley in northern Israel.The Agamon Hula Ornithology (Bird Watching) and Nature Park, is situated in the heart of the Hula Valley. The valley bordered by mountain ranges, to east the Golan Heights and to the west the Naphtali Range, is critically located in the center of the Afro-Syrian Rift and one of the most significant bird migration routes in the world. During every migration season (fall and spring), over 500 million birds from more than 400 species migrate in the skies above us. Thousands remain at the Agamon during the winter