Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries

		RINGING A STEPPE  EAGLE
		After ringing a Steppe Eagle in Eilat on the Red Sea, it is being released to fly free. The migration of the eagle can then be tracked. (Photos: Yossi Eshbol)

IMPERIAL EAGLE  FROM  THE  CARPATHIAN  MOUNTAINS
This female Imperial Eagle, ringed as an eaglet in its nest in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, decided to spend its first winter in the northwestern Negev Desert in Israel. (Photo: W.S. Clark)

		BIRD-WATCHERS
		During the migration season, dozens of bird-watchers spread out across Israel with binoculars and telescopes. A birdwatcher is here accompanied by an Israeli Air Force soldier and a Bedouin from the area. (Photo: Yossi Leshem)