Birds of Saudi Arabia

In early September I saw a nice Temminck’s Stint along a wet ditch in Jubail. Unfortunately it was not very photogenic and the below poor p...

Whilst birdwatching the Talea’a Valley we found a large pool of water with several Arabian Skittering Frogs. This is only the second time I...

Whilst birdwatching at Tanoumah in southwest Saudi Arabia, in the Asir mountains we saw plenty of Gambaga flycatchers. We were there in the...

Mansur has recently sent me a few moths he has caught near Riyadh and managed to identify. One such moth was Heliothis nubigera.  The engli...

The World Shorebirds Day was created with the following aims: To raise public awareness about the need to protect shorebirds and their ha...

Whilst birding the Tanoumah area in summer 2016 I saw a good number of Yemen Thrushes Turdus menachensis including a pair of adults feedin...

Arnold Uy went again to AlKhobar Corniche the day after he saw good numbers of waders there. This time Arnold managed to find a few differe...

Mansur has recently sent me a few moths he has caught near Riyadh and managed to identify. One such moth was Metopoceras omar that has a n...

Whilst birdwatching along the Khobar Coniche Arnold Uy found good numbers of waders. I was birding the Jubail area at the same time and alt...

Mansur Al Fahad sent me a some photos of Pelopidas thrax from the Riyadh area that he has kindly allowed me to use on my website. It is kn...