Another Champions of the Flyway race is in the books. This year was amazing on many levels: New teams, great fundraising and a fantastic and dramatic race. The Champions of the Flyway is not only a challenging bird race, actually the race is just the climax of months of fundraising and promotion. This year the […]
The Champions of the Flyway project is unique in many ways. Project coordinator Jonathan Meyrav summarized it nicely: “Besides being a challenging race that requires strong birding and route planning skills, COTF is an event that is steered by a few but executed by many. The Champions project encourages and promotes sharing, caring and working together to […]
Over 190 birders from 40 teams assembled in Eilat for an incredible race day on March 29th 2016. The teams combed the playing field from Nizzana and Yerucham Lake in the Negev, down to the Gulf of Eilat in a hectic attempt to log as many species of birds possible in 24 hours. There are […]
2016 Champions of the Flyway Results are IN! Congratulations to The ZEISS Arctic Redpolls for winning the 2016 Champions of the Flyway, having observed a total of 174 bird species! Second place goes to the IBRCE Flying Dutchmen (171 species) and third place is awarded to our youngest team, the Next Generation Birders (164 species). […]
