From the Old City to Tel Aviv is just 34 miles as the bird flies but a fast-forward in time: There, high-tech rules, and the walkway along the Mediterranean Sea is packed with young Israeli professionals and their families.

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Veteran conservationist Roy Dennis visits one of the biggest seasonal spectacles, a sea bird colony, and finds out why they might need help.

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In March, Taiwan, one of six claimants to this disputed smattering of sandbars and reefs in the South China Sea, built a bird-watching hide on a pinprick previously frequented more by soldiers than ornithologists.

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