Birds of Saudi Arabia

Phil Roberts and I visited Ushaiqer dump site 175 kilometres northwest of Riyadh at first light on 15 November 2019. We failed to locate th...

A trip to look for the huge number of Steppe Eagles at Ushaiqer resulted in finding a single juvenile Eurasian Griffon Vulture   Gyps fulvu...

Whilst birding the Ushaiqer dump site 175 kilometres northwest of Riyadh I came across a couple of Blackstarts. The species is a common res...

The Arabian Green Bee-eater subspecies M. c. cyanophrys occurring from southern Israel to western Jordan and west and south Arabian coasts ...

Paul Watson found a Striated Heron along the seafront of Al Khobar near the Bahrain Causeway on 3 November 2019. This is a rare but increas...

Whilst driving back from Riyadh to Dhahran I came across a new landfill site on the side of the expressway. The site had plenty of Steppe E...

I went birding to the Riyadh River near Al Hair recently. It is an amazing site with running river, reed beds and nearby pivot irrigation f...

Whilst birding Al Hair, near Riyadh recently I came across a small group of Red Avadavat, including males, females and juveniles. Birds wer...

Whilst birding Al Hair, near Riyadh recently I came across a flock of approximately twenty Arabian Golden Sparrows, including juveniles. Th...

Whilst birding Al Hair, near Riyadh recently I came across a large group of Streaked Weavers at the edge of a wetland area feeding in a piv...