Birds of Saudi Arabia

As mentioned previously there has been a major arrival of Pied Kingfishers into Eastern Arabia this winter including a minimum of ten birds...

Purple Swamphen is not a rare bird in the Eastern Province and large numbers can be seen at its main breeding site of Sabkhat Al Fasl. Alth...

Viv Wilson who lives in Tabuk is very good at taking photos of the night sky and has recently sent me a few photos of the International Spa...

There are currently as of 11 November 2015 two Sociable Lapwings in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. These birds have been satellite tracked ...

Viv Wilson found an African Lime Butterfly near Tabuk and sent me a few photographs of it. This is a difficult butterfly to take photos of ...

As mentioned previously there appears to have been a significant influx of Pied Kingfishers into the eastern part of Arabia in late October...

The below photographs were taken by Khalifa Al Dhaheri in the Tanoumah area of the Asir mountains at about 2100 metres above sea level in e...

Whilst ringing at Sabkhat Al Fasl I found a Schmidt's Fringed-toed Lizard Acanthodactylus schmidti near the car and took a couple of p...

The Greater Flamingo is an uncommon but widespread migrant and winter visitor to all coasts with a few in summer. Numbers have increased st...

The below photograph of Plain Tiger Danaus chrysippus was taken by Vinu Mathew and sent to me. fVinu kindly allowed me to use it on my web...