Noam Weiss is the director of the international Birding & Research Center, Eilat (IBRCE) since 2014, and works in nature conservation since 2004. His passion is community based nature conservation for birds. Weiss and his team developed the Eilat Bird Sanctuary as a hub for environmental culture and nature conservation, combining active conservation, managing campaigns, monitoring and research, communal and educational work, and eco-tourism. The public support and awareness the bird sanctuary’s activity creates, combined with intensively collected data, are the main tools that create the change that keeps migratory birds safe. Weiss is a full time birder also involved in research. His main research objectives are studying bird migration in Eilat, distribution of desert birds and migratory passerines as pest control agents in agriculture. Weiss and his team have created diverse cross border activities such as the “Guardians of the Flyway”, a cross border regional network of bird conservationists who work along the eastern Mediterranean flyway and train conservationists from the region. Every year, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and the IBRCE run the “Champions of the Flyway” birding race in Eilat, to raise funds to stop illegal killing of birds along the flyway.
Publications
Weiss, Noam, et al. “How Fast Does the Steppe Eagle Population Decline? Survey Results from Eilat, Israel.” Raptors Conservation 38 (2019).
Schäckermann, J., Weiss, N., von Wehrden, H., & Klein, A. M. (2014). High trees increase sunflower seed predation by birds in an agricultural landscape of Israel. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 35.
Schäckermann, J., Mandelik, Y., Weiss, N., Wehrden, H., & Klein, A. M. (2015). Natural habitat does not mediate vertebrate seed predation as an ecosystem dis‐service to agriculture. Journal of applied ecology, 52(2), 291-299.
Weiss, N.., Koss, M.., & Yosef, R.. (2009). First breeding record of Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia in Israel. Sandgrouse, 31, 24-25.
Weiss, N., & Yosef, R. (2010). Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) Hunts a Eurasian Buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus) While in Migration over Eilat, Israel. Journal of Raptor Research, 44(1), 77-78.
Weiss, N. (2010). Rare birds (Streptopelia roseogrisea, Caprimulgus europaeus unwini, Iduna rama, Acrocephalus gricola) at Eilat’s ringing station, Israel, autumn 2008.Sandgrouse, 32, 15-19.
Weiss, N., & Yosef, R. (2009). Effects of human and inter-specific competition on territory establishment of the Hume’s Tawny Owl (Strix butleri) in the Arava Valley. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution, 55(3), 304.
Koss M. Weiss N. Yosef R. (2008). First winter record of Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus for Israel. Sandgrouse, 30, 201-203.
Weiss N. (2009). Conservation of Hume’s tawny owl (Srtix butleri) in southern Israel: Behavioral and habitat selection perspective. In: Minz, D., Carmel, Y., & Heiman, A. (2009). Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Science (Isees). Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution, 55(3), 281-304.
Olsson, Karin H., et al. “Spread of the Invasive Dwarf Honey Bee Apis florea Facilitates Winter Presence of Oriental Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Eilat, Israel.” Acta Ornithologica 56.2 (2022): 189-198.
מוטרו י., צ’רטר מ., אלון ד., אביאל ש., מרום ק. פלג א., וייס נ., דראושה ס.,עזר א., קן ע., קפואה ש.,. ,לשם י.(2013). השימוש בתנשמות ובבזים כמדבירים ביולוגיים בחקלאות. אקולוגיה וסביבה, 4 (1), 8-10.
וייס נ. (2008). בחירת בית הגידול על ידי לילית המדבר (Strix butleri) בדרום ישראל, הכנס הזואולוגי, חיפה.
