Birds of Saudi Arabia

Whilst driving off-road along the edge of a large wire fence towards our main birding location at Judah we flushed a bird off the sand trac...

Liam Brickwood sent me an email recently saying he took the below photographs of a Eurasian Wryneck recently in Saudi Arabia. Liam said he ...

Phil Roberts and I went for our normal winter birding trip to Haradh recently and saw a lot of good birds. Best was 14 Sociable Lapwings wh...

Whilst birdwatching at Al Asfar Lake, near Hofuf, I saw a small number of new Desert Hyacinth  Cistanche tubulosa . The Desert Hyacinth is ...

Whilst birding the Jubail area recently I recorded plenty of Greater Flamingos in several large groups. Numbers possibly amounted to over t...

Whilst birding the Talea Valley last autumn I was sitting under some bushes waiting for Arabian Red-capped Lark to come down and drink at a...

A trip to Tabuk in late January was very productive for Red-throated Pipits  Anthus cervinus  with up to three thousand birds seen in sever...

Whilst at Judah in the early morning just as it was getting light, I spotted an Arabian Red Fox on the large sandstone cliffs. It was quite...

On a winter trip to Judah, also known as Jebal Hamrah, Phil and I came across a good number of larks. They were mainly on a rough stony are...

Whilst birding the pivot irrigation fields of Haradh in late January we came across large numbers of both Desert Wheatear and Isabelline Wh...