The Nature Preservation Society reported Sunday that some 600,000 migratory birds are flying over Israel this fall on their way to winter roosting sites in Africa. The flocks stretch several miles across the sky. They have been spotted by bird watchers in the Samaria district of the West Bank and in the northern Negev.
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