Birds Of Israel
Photography From the Past 
From 1985 to 1988  Birds of Israel the biggest collation in the world. Photographer Meir Martin
Please excuse the dust,This site is still under construction
In my passion for photography of  Birds in nature, I have traveled to many places. I was born in Jerusalem and served in the Israeli Navy in the most amazing places on Earth, where the sun is red in the dawn and the ocean is like a mirror. The desert in Sinai and the ocean moved me to photography. After completing my service in the Navy, I began by photographing the old city of Jerusalem and the nature that surrounds Jerusalem. It didn't take long to discover that Israel has one of the biggest Avian migration in the word and Eilat became a hot-spot for me. While on my many drives from the North of Israel to Eilat, my friends and I discovered many new spices in 1985, I then published the book, "Desert Birds in Israel." In this book I have the the two remaining Lappet Faced Vultures in Israel, only six months after publishing the book, the birds became extinct from that region.
From the 1980 to 1987 I photographed more than 20 new spices in Israel. I traveled to Africa and other places in the word to complete my book, "Birds of Israel" that unfortunately was unfinished. I have the owner to work with the best birdswtching , Oz Horine, Rami Mizrahi, Amir Ben dov,  I left Israel in 1988 and came to Florida. I sold all of my equipment and stopped photography until 2008.
That's when I started creating a new art that combines: Photography, Computer Technology, and a lot of time and imagination.  By combining all of these elements I have called my art, MeirMartin.com.

Hadoram Shirihai. Israel 1985 
Hadoram Shirihai has written a number of bird identification papers, mostly published in English in magazines such as British Birds and Birding World. With David Christie, he co-wrote the Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern birds among several other works
His major texts include The Birds of Israel and he co-authored a definitive work on the genus Sylvia. All of his books published in the UK and US have been awarded ‘Best Book of the Year’ (or similar) in the years they were published. Shirihai acts as an editorial consultant to most of the leading bird magazines in Europe, like Dutch Birding and Birdwatch.

 Photo by M.D. Martin 
The Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is a small Old World vulture, found widely distributed from southwestern Europe and northern Africa to southern Asia. It is the only living member of the genus Neophron. It has sometimes also been known as the White Scavenger Vulture or Pharaoh's Chicken. Like other vultures it soars on thermals and the underwing black and white pattern and wedge tail make it distinctive. It sometimes uses stones to break the eggs of birds making it one of the few birds that make use of tools. Birds that breed in the temperate region migrate south in winter while tropical populations are relatively sedentary. Populations of this species have declined in the 20th Century and some isolated island forms are particularly
This is a collection of the "Birds of Israe'l that has been photographed from 1985 to 1987. The pictures have been taken on film, such as Kodak Chrome, and Ectochrome film. When I converted the film to digital in 2009 most of them lost their quality and the vivid color. D Martin.
Meir Martin.
The Red Kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. The species is currently endemic to the Western Palearctic region in Europe and northwest Africa, though formerly also occurred just outside in northern Iran.[2] It is a rare species which is resident in the milder parts of its range in western Europe and northwest Africa, but birds from northeastern and central Europe winter further south and west, reaching south to Turkey. Vagrants have reached north to Finland and south to Israel and Libya.[2]
Red Kite Nagev 1985 D Martin and Oz Horin
Ailat 1986 D Martin and Oz Horin
Small Skylark First time discover by Hadoram Shirihai 
Photo By D. Martin
Citrine Wagtail First picture in Israel by D. Martin and
 Oz Horin.
1987 First record to Israel  .Hadoram Shirihai
Photo D. Martin
LITTLE  BUNTING. Hadoram Shirihai Photo D martin first time
First time photo  RED FRONTED SERIN D. Martin
WHITE TAILED EAGLE. First Time photo D. Martin.
IMPERIAL EAGLE . First Time photo D. Martin
HUME'S TAWNY OWL . dead sea 1986 Oz Horin and D Martin . First time photo
LAPPET FACED VULTURE THE LEST TWO in nature 1987 by photo: D Martin