Area of the Final Project
Fauna & Flora in Ein Avdat
(November 1998 -June 1999)
Species found in Ein Avdat during the year, compiled from students observations and presented in their maps.
Fauna
Birds
- Shrike (Lanius)
- Sandy Grouse (Alectoris)
- Desert Swallow (Ptyonoprogue Obsoleta)
- Black Crow (Crowus Ruficolis)
Rodents (Rodentia)
- Porcupine (Hytrix)
- Fat Sandy Rat (Psammomys)
- Spingy Mouse
- Gerbil (Gerbillus)
- Hedge Hock(Erinceidae)
Reptiles
- Partridge (Agama)
- Desert Lizard (Mesalina Guttlata)
Arthropoda
- Isopod (Parcellio)
- Scorpion
- Spiders (Arachnidae)
Water Insects
- Bugs (Heteroptera)
- Dragon Fly (Odonata)
- Ephemeroptera
- Musquito (Culicidae)
- Copepoda
- Daphnae (Cladocera)
- Water Beatles (Coleoptera)
Mammals
- Ibex
- Gazella Gazella
- Bats (Chiroptera)
- Desert Wolf (Canis)
Flora
- Suaeda asphaltica
- Lycium shawii
- Pistacia atlantica
- Tamarix aphyila
- Alhagi maurorum
- Zygophyllum dumosum
- Hammada negevensis
- Nitraria retusa
- Artemisia herba-alba
- Atriplex halimus
- Salsola vermiculata
- Thymelaea hirsuta
- Noaea mucronata
- Typha australisSchum
- Juncus
- Limonium pruinosum
- Gymnocarpos decander Forssk
- Capparis spinosa
- Populus euphratica
- Astragalus spinosus
- Phragmites australis
- Colutea istria Mill
- Retema raetam
- Ochradenus baccatus
- Peganum harmala
- Phoeniculum
- Pheonix dactylifera