An Egyptian Vulture in flight over mountains

Welcome, I'm

Tohar Tal

Tohar Tal
About me

I am an early-career ornithologist driven by a curiosity about how birds move throughout the annual cycle in an ever-changing world. My research combines animal tracking, citizen science, computational approaches, and ecological theory to explore how behavioural, demographic, and environmental processes shape bird populations. By linking individual movement behaviour with population-level patterns, I aim to better understand the mechanisms driving population dynamics.

Black-tailed Godwits
Sanderlings in flight
A Pallid Harrier in flight
Eurasian Spoonbills
A Honey Buzzard
A Broad-billed Sandpiper
A Western Subalpine Warbler
A mixed flock of waders in flight over the Portuguese coast
A flock of waders
A Kentish Plover
A European Stonechat
A Pallas's Gull
A Peregrine Falcon chasing a Sanderling
A Ptarmigan
Black-tailed Godwits
Sanderlings in flight
A Pallid Harrier in flight
Eurasian Spoonbills
A Honey Buzzard
A Broad-billed Sandpiper
A Western Subalpine Warbler
A mixed flock of waders in flight over the Portuguese coast
A flock of waders
A Kentish Plover
A European Stonechat
A Pallas's Gull
A Peregrine Falcon chasing a Sanderling
A Ptarmigan

For an overview of all my trips and photos, visit my Birding page.

Current Work

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Bird Ecologist

Waardenburg Ecology

Research and data analysis focused on offshore avian movement ecology, population processes, and environmental impact assessments.

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Co-Chair of the Board

Batumi Raptor Count

Leading one of the world's largest volunteer-based migration monitoring projects, counting over one million raptors annually at a key corridor in the Republic of Georgia.

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Management Committee Member

EUFLYNET Cost Action

A European flyway research network for the effective conservation of migrant landbirds.

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Validator

Observation.org

A global citizen-science platform for collecting and sharing biodiversity data.