Hula Lake Park, north of the Sea of Galilee, lies in the center of the Hula Valley in the Upper Galilee bordered by mountain ranges, the Golan to the east and the Naphtali Range to the west. More than 500 million birds, waterfowl, birds of prey, and songbirds of 390 species including twenty globally-endangered species, migrate through this area of the Hula Valley in the spring and fall.
This is one of the best places in Israel to see cranes, pelicans, storks, and hundreds of other bird species. It is on one of the world's most significant bird migration routes through the northern part of the Syrian-African Rift Valley between Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Lake Agamon is in the center of the park.
Birds:
Cranes:
Common crane, Grus grus
Godwits:
Bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica
Plovers:
Spur-winged plover, Vanellus spinosus
Avocets:
Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta
Egrets and herons:
Cattle egret, Bulbulcus ibis
Grey heron, Ardea cinerea
Night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax
Great white egret, Egretta alba
Stonechats:
Siberian stonechat, Saxicola maurus
Kites:
Black-winged kite, Elanus caeruleus
Larks:
Desert lark, Ammomanes deserti
Pelicans:
White pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus
Ducks:
Northern shoveler, Spatula clypeata
Eurasian teal, Anas crecca
Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos
Ibises:
Glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus
Cormorants:
Great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
Pygmy cormorant, Microcarbo pygmaeus
Kingfishers:
White-throated kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis
Greenfinches:
European greenfinch, Chlors chlors
Flamingos:
Greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus, adult left, juvenile right
Buzzards:
Common buzzard, Buteo buteo
Wagtails:
Whaite wagtail, Motucilla alba
Hobbies:
Eurasian hobby, Falco subbuteo
Other animals:
Turtles:
Balkan pond turtle, Mauremys rivulata
Butterflies:
Nutrias (coypu), Myocaster coypus
Donkeys:
Onager, Equus hemionus
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