Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
The Basra Reed Warbler is still at JEO, hopefully it will breed if there are no further disturbances from bird shooters and grazers, who have been reduced due to collaboration with concerned parties. Basra Reed Warbler 1, Great...
On 10/05/2009 Rashed Al-Hajji found and photographed a Red-footed Falcon, a first summer male at Sulaibiya Pivot Fields. This is a second record for Kuwait and a first live bird. The first record was found dead by G....
Yesterday Rashed had found a Great Snipe at Jahra Farms, so today Pekka and I went to Jahra Farms and found the Great Snipe which is a rare bird that had not been seen for a number of...
A Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) the fourth record for Kuwait was found yesterday afternoon by Rashed Al-Hajji at JEO. Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), the following photographs are by Rashed Al-Hajji The following by A. Al-Sirhan
Basra Reed Warbler 8, Little Egret 6, Spotted Crake 3, Graceful Prinia 2, Common Chiffchaff 6, Meadow Pipit 2, Sedge Warbler 4, Squacco Heron 9, Collared Pratincole 1, Little Bittern 1
On 5/03/2009 Khaled Al-Ghanem has found a first record for Kuwait a Mongolian Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes mongolicus. The bird was found in Sabah Al-Ahmed Natural Reserve in a flock of up to six, but today on 20/03/2009 the number...
White-throated Kingfisher 2 ( amale and female in courtship feeding), Bank Myna 2, Sparrowhawk 1, Common Myna 2, Common Chiffchaff 10, Songthrush 6, Siberian Stonechat 1, Common Redstart 1, Grey Wagtail 2, Red-rumped Swallow 4, Rose-necked Parakeet 4,...
Common Linnet 2, Common Snipe 1, Imperial Eagle 2, Marsh Harrier 1, Black Kite 6, Cattle Egret 60, Red Bishop (escapee) 2, Isabelline Shrike 2, Siberian Stonechat 4, Eurasian Skylark 3, Crested Lark 5, Eurasian Hoopoe 1, Corn...
Cetti’s Warbler 2, Moustached Warbler 2, European Reed Warbler 1, Little Crake 2, Spanish Sparrow 2, Common Moorhen 2 Cetti’s Warbler Cettia cetti
Ouda Al-Bathalie a member of Kuwait Birding forum has asked me to see what he thinks a new bird for Kuwait at his farm. This morning Rashed and I went to his farm and photographed the bird it turned...
At Souq Sharq: Pallas’s Gull 3, Black-headed Gull 20, Slender-billed Gull 2, Armenian Gull 10, Steppe Gull 20, Palld Swift 8. At Pivot Fields: Corn Bunting 3, Black Kite 60, Greater Spotted Eagle 3, Common Kestrel 1, Eurasian...
Together with a Canadian Visitor, Gordon Saunders we started from Kuwait Bay to Sulaibikhat Bay to produce the following: Armenian Gull 30 (maximum daily count so far), Steppe Gull 53, Lesser Black-backed Gull (fuscus) 1, Siberian Gull (heuglini) 3,...
Buff-bellied Pipit 1, Steppe Eagle 2, Woodchat Shrike 2, Long-legged Buzzard 2, Cattle Egret 10, Water Pipit 20, White Wagtail 15, Eurasian Skylark 30, Isabelline Shroke 1, Isabelline Wheatear 2, Common Moorehen 17, Common Snipe 1. Yesterday the Visiting...
At JEO: Curlew Sandpiper 500, Common Shelduck 60, Mallard 55, Eurasian Wigeon 5, Grey Plover 180, Northern Shoveler 1, Pied Wheatear 1, Siberian Stonechat ssp. variegatus 1, Desert Wheatear 1, Isabelline Wheatear 1, Steppe Eagle 1 At Jahra...
Pekka and AbdulRahman went to Al-Abraq today to reclocate the Hume’s Leaf Warbler (2nd record) after hearing the bird calls a number of time we finally managed to see the bird and Pekka managed to photograph it as well. Birds that were seen...
A trip to Socotra, Yemen 4 – 9 December 2008 By AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan Participants: Pekka Fågel, AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan, Gary Brown and Irina Mazurkevich. Dragon’s Blood Tree Dracaena cannibari. Photograph by A. Al-Sirhan Introduction The Socotra Archipelago is part...