Birds of Saudi Arabia

The ringing situation has changed slightly over the summer with Brendan moving back to Ireland from Bahrain. He remains our trainer and is...

An evening’s birding at my local ‘patch’ produced a scattering of migrants along with a number of the commoner resident species. Doves are...

As I have mentioned in the past few weeks, I have found a nice deep ditch with water runoff in that continues to a wet flash at the end near...

There has been a slow trickle of new birds through Dhahran Hills over the last week with the best bird seen yesterday being a Great Reed War...

Sabkhat Al Fasl was surprising quite on Friday for my early morning visit. There were few birds and thankfully few hunters although a few we...

I went to Abu Ali Island see here for details  to look for Sandwich Terns which are meant to spend time moulting on the island in their thou...

Khafrah Marsh (26° 48’N, 49° 34’E) is an extensive reed-swamp of Phragmites australis reed-beds covering an area of approximately 300 hec...

A visit to Kafrah Marsh, which is the site where Phil and I found Purple Swamphens breeding last year, produced more Purple Swamphens indica...

The trees at the edge of the percolation pond are proving to be a bit of a magnet for newly arrive migrants. Today a smart male Woodchat Shr...

One or two migrants are still struggling through Dhahran Hills with the first Tree Pipit of the autumn for me seen in the trees beside the p...