Jem's Birding & Ringing Exploits in the Eastern Province and elsewhere in Saudi Arabia
25 November 2013
Black Kites in Tabuk – Bird records by Viv Wilson
Viv has been out
looking for birds again and is constantly finding birds of prey to photograph.
He took a number of photographs over the weekend of Black Kites in the area
including adults and juveniles some of which show features of Black-eared
Kites. The trouble is there is a big interbreeding area of Black Kite and Black-eared
Kite that makes identifying anything but very obvious birds tricky. Viv also
took a nice photograph of an adult type Steppe Eagle showing the underwing pattern
very nicely which was published with yesterdays post. Viv has once again allowed me to use his photographs on my website
and I thank him very much.