Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
At JEO there were 20 bird shooter cars from 6am to 7pm, so I went to Pivot Fields. At Pivot Fields: Spotted Redshank 1, Black-tailed Godwit 1, Whiskered Terns 3, Wood Sandpiper 3, Ruff 15, Marsh Harrier 3,...
Spotted Redshank 1, Little Tern 2, Whiskered Tern 2, Garganey 2, Ruff 20, Little Ringed Plover 1, Purple Heron 28 (seen by Pekka), Black-crowned Night Heron 2, Black Kite 3, Marsh Harrier 2, Common Snipe 4, Black-tailed Godwit...
Montagu’s Harrier 3, Temminck’s Stint 4, Black-winged Stilt 50, Collared Pratincole 3, Greater Short-toed Lark 3.
Thrush Nightingale 1, Woodchat Shrike 1, Corn crake 1, Common Redstart 1, Common Whitehroat 10, Golden Oriole 3, Tawny Pipt 1, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 2, Willow Warbler 2, Eurasian Sparrowhawk1, Eurasian Hoopoe 6, Steppe Grey Shrike 2, Garden...
At Hospital Area: Gull-billed Tern 25, Terek Sandpiper 20, Little Stint 10, Ruddy Turnstone 5, Steppe Gull 6. At Sulaibikhat Bay: Steppe Gull 23, Caspian Gull 3, Heuglin’s Gull 4, Armenian Gull 2, Black Tern (juvenile) 1, Little Tern...
Pivot Fields: Great Bittern 1, Little Ringed Plover 1, Squacco Heron 3, Glossy Ibis 1, Ruff 6, European Roller 3, Sand Martin 10, Barwn Swallow 20, Green Sandpiper 1, Collared Pratincole 1, Marsh Harrier 1, Great Reed Warbler...
At Jahra Farms: Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 1, Upcher’s Warbler 1, Bluethroat 1, Barred Warbler 1, Blackcap 1, Eurasian Hoopoe 3, Clamorous Reed Warbler 1, Rosenecked Parakeet 2, White-eared Bulbul 4. At Tulha: Lesser Grey Shrike 1, Isabelline Wheatear...
I started at 12:15PM at Shuwaikh Free Zone then moved along the coast at Sulaibikhat Bay untill I reached Doha Spit. High tide was at 12:35PM, I reached Doha Spit at 2:45PM so high waters were much reduced and the birds were too...
At Jahra Farms: Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 2 (seen by Khaled Al-Ghanem), Icterine Warbler 1, Masked Shrike 1, Upcher’s Warbler 1, White-throated Robin 1, Laughing Dove 6, Southern Grey Shrike 1, Barred Warbler 1. At Sulaibikhat Bay: Armenian Gull...
This morning Pekka has relocated the Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler (Kuwait’s first) he has found on 12/08/2008, I was able to see the bird and photograph it. The birds we saw today as follows: Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 2, Icterine...
At JEO: Caspian Plover 1 (juenile ), Grey Heron 10, Eurasian Curlew 20, Broad-billed Sandpiper 2, Greater Sand Plover 1, White Stork 1 (fisrt seen by Rashed on 13/07/2008), Bar-tailed Godwit 1, Little Stint 10, Wood Sandpiperr 3,...
Lesser Sand Plover 1, Greater Sand Plover 3, Western Reef Egret 2 (juvenile), Green Sandpiper 3, Curlew Sandpiper 3. Lesser Sand Plover Greater Sand Plover . . . for comparison! Western Reef Egret juvenile
Today it was very quiet. Birds that were seen included the following: Masked Shrike 1 (the same bird that was seen on 24 June and had lost its tail), Upcher’s Warbler 6+, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 3, Hoopoe Lark...
Black-shouldered Kite 1, Isabelline Shrike 1, Masked Shrike 1, European Roller 2, Isabelline Wheatear 1, Upcher’s Warbler 2, Laughing Dove 1, Collared Dove 1, Lesser Short-toed Lark 2, Hoopoe Lark 2, Crested Lark 20+, House Sparrow 20+ Black-shouldered...
White-winged Lapwing 1 (juv.), Greenshank 2, Red-backed Shrike 1 (male), Pied Avocet 1, Black-tailed Godwit 1, Whiskered Tern 4, Cream-coloured Courser 2, Eurasian Curlew 40+, White-winged Tern 10+, Black-winged Stilt 30+, Little Tern 20+ Pied Avocet White-winged Tern...
Birds that have been seen today included all the birds seen in the last post except the Tawny Pipt and Red-necked Phalaropes, new ones are: African Collared Dove 1, European Bee-eater 1, Greater Crested Tern 3, Black-tailed Godwit...