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On their spring and autumn migrations, the area has its good share
of more than 200 migrating types as well a more than 150 resident
birds.
Lammergeir and golden eagles are residents of the Eastern desert
and Sinai.
Resident desert birds are a distinct category, numbering about 24
kinds.
That exquisite corridor of tinted mountain and radiant water
...here and nowhere else is the vestibule between the Levant and
the Topics ..." E.M. Forster describing the Gulf of Suez, 1923.
The area’s topography bestows on it a special lure and charm. It
lies in one of the three tires of the eastern desert -the Red Sea
Hills and Red Sea Coastal plain. This tier runs from near Suez to
the Sudanese border.
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