La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Status of Common Crane Grus grus in Israel
Auteurs :	Dan Alon, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Vogelwelt (Die) (120(5-6) 1999)
Article en page(s) :	363-365
Résumé :	In the 19th century, the Crane was mentioned occasionally as a wintering bird in the area that today is Israel. During the last decades, however, the landscape in Israel has changed drastically and as a result new conditions for resting and wintering Cranes have arisen. In the years between 1965 and the mid-1980s, the Yizrael Valley was the main resting site, but it has since become rather deserted, probably because the Cranes' main food, chick peas, are hardly grown any more in the valley. Instead, the Hula Valley has become an important wintering site as a result of the protected zone having been enlarged through the damming of water. Hula now offers not only adequate sites for roosting, but also feeding areas with the main food source available being peanuts. Whereas no more than 4,500 Cranes wintered at five sites in Israel until 1990, the maximum number between 1990 and 1995/96 was 18,500 birds. An additional 5,000-10,000 Cranes pass through Israel on their way to Africa and arrive at the staging sites before the wintering Cranes.

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