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Hula Valley, Israel


	Hide in the Jordan river. From this hide in the old bed of the Jordan we tried for ten days to catch some cranes...
Picture Javier A. Alonso

Hide in a drinking place. ... but it was from a new hide inside a reed patch, on a channel, that we finally succeeded.
	Picture Javier A. Alonso

	From the hide. The place was OK... but then we had to wait several hours until the right number of birds was on the rocket-net area.
Picture Javier A. Alonso

And now too many cranes! Almost sixty cranes would have been catched if we would shoot the net instead of the picture now
	Picture Javier A. Alonso

	G-R-G / Bu-Bk-Bu, Carolina, the first colour banded crane provided with a satellite transmitter in Israel
Picture Dan Alon

Drora, also marked with a satellite transmitter, in front of the famous old Jordan River bed
	Picture Efi Shariri

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