Birds of Saudi Arabia

Whilst birding Khafra Marsh the last couple of weekends I have not really seen very much at all. The temperature is now very high, and birds...

Whilst birding Al Uqair last visit the number of migrants had decreased significantly although there were still a few birds about. Red-backe...

Whilst birding the Dhahran Waste Water Lake in late May I saw hundreds of Carmine Darter Crocothemis erythraea . They are common in this are...

Whilst birding the Dhahran Cricket Field, I saw and photographed an adult Collared Pratincole   Glareola pratincole . The bird was in the mi...

Birding the lake has been a bit hard work recently with few birds to be seen and to good ones, not allowing photographs. The best birds in M...

Whilst birding the Dhahran Waste Water Lake 18 May I came across a single Steppe Buzzard Buteo   Buteo vulpinus . I did not see the bird as ...

I surprise this morning on the Dhahran football fields were eight Western Cattle Egret. This is a common wintering species but normally by n...

Yellow Wagtails have been plentiful this spring, with hundreds seen on some days. Over the last week numbers have been declining but there a...