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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hi all</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, I hope this email finds you well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are trying to build a comprehensive database of bird specimens from our region (Palestine / Israel) in museums and private collections around
the world. We are aware that, starting at the nineteenth century and on, many nature researchers were active in the region, and many specimens were sent abroad. If you know about birds specimens from the Palestine / Israel region, in your institution or elsewhere,
we will be very grateful if you could contact us, so we can integrate this into our database.<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>
</span>If you know of anyone else who might have relevant specimens and is not on this list we would appreciate it if you could send this notice along to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Yael Piontkewitz (<a href="mailto:yaelpion@tauex.tau.ac.il">yaelpion@tauex.tau.ac.il</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Amos Belmaker (<a href="mailto:belmakera@tauex.tau.ac.il">belmakera@tauex.tau.ac.il</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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