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International Correspondent for NPR, covering Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, migration and more. Based in Rome. Half Italian, half British.
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An Israeli paraglider tries to save migrating swifts that nest in the Western Wall

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By Ruth Sherlock Verified
| WKAR-TV (East Lansing, MI) Verified
JERUSALEM β€” Every spring at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a rabbi presides over a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the common swift in its great migration about 2,800 miles from Africa. Between February and June, men's and women's prayers at the wall mix with the calls of the birds that swoop and dart above this ancient religious site. These scythe-winged birds, researchers believe, have raised their young in the nooks and crannies of these stones since Herodian times, two millennia ago.
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