Palestinian 'birdman' watches out over West Bank Anton Khalilieh, a Palestinian man who specializes in birds, conducts research and observations of bird migrations in the West Bank in the hope to make bird watching more popular in Palestine. Khalilieh is the executive director of Nature Palestine Society, a new small NGO seeking to document all the birds in the occupied West Bank and eventually establish observatory stations for foreign and Palestinian twitchers. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES