Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
I was able to visit today Kabd with Andy Clifton, Alan Clewes and Richard Bonser. After seeing Hume’s Wheatear at SAANR during previous days we wanted to check what is the situation of larks in Kabd which is...
I visited the site this morning with Abdulmohsen Al-Suraye and Khaled Al-Ghanem. In early morning after cold night +10C the bird spent considerably long time just warming up. By 9.30 it started to catch insects. It shares big...
I visited SAANR today to check whether Hume’s Wheatear is still present and it surely is. I tried to relocate Common Cranes but they were gone. As a new feature I encountered a flock of 100+ Lesser Short-toed...
I was doing our regular wader count with Brian in Doha area when Rashed Al-Hajji called and told that he had found Lesser Flamingo. We had to rush quickly to the site near Maturnity Hospital in Sulaibikhat. (Same...
Back in Kuwait and immediately I had to check whether our gem is still present and it is. Personally the bird of the day was Common Crane. I saw 5 of them in SAANR (5th record for Kuwait...
Brian and me visited SAANR today. Tulha was totally dead and we managed to see only 4 Bar-taied Desert Larks and 1 Hoopoe Lark + 1 Long-legged Buzzard after long drive out there. However, as a last thing...
Simon Price and myself found first Woodlark and later on Richard Saval spotted Chaffinch. We saw also several Bank Mynas, two White-throated Kingfishers and few Rose-ringed Parakeets. Woodlark (Lullula arborea) Photograph by Pekka Fågel Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) Photograph...
Correction to aging of the bird. I received today a comment from Matti Lammin-Soila stating “This is juvenile, 1cy bird.(fresh plumage, all feathers of the same age, no moult etc.)” —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The bird was found by Ouda Al-Bathali...
This record was intentionally suppressed for the safety of the bird. The bird was found by Mohamed Korshed and photographed by many on the same day. Macqueen’s Bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii)
Brian, Simon and myself had a regular visit to Al Abraq this morning. Quite soon we managed to see a Short-eared Owl flying and disappearing somewhere. After walking around the farm we finally decided to check alfalfa fieds...
Grey Hypocolius that I photographed this morning is one out of nine birds. Few days ago I had 18 on Green Island and first birds arrived about two weeks ago. Otherwise Jahra Farms had essentially same species as...
Short visit in the morning produced some nice records: Cattle Egret 97, Northern Lapwing 22, Curlew 5, Common Snipe 1, Ruff 1, Spotted Eagle 1, Eastern Imperial Eagle 1, Black Kite 25, Marsh Harrier 1, Steppe Buzzard 2,...
Although construction work has already started at JEO it is still worth of visiting. This morning I managed finally to photograph Griffon Vulture in Kuwait. Birds seen were: Griffon Vulture 2, Steppe Eagle 6, Spotted Eagle 1, Short-toed...
Update to this posting: Seems that the ID of the bird is correct. I have received couple of confirmations outside of Kuwait stating that indeed the bird is Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus) —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— This morning I just did...
Brief morning visit to Pivot Fields produced the following: Squacco Heron 1, Cattle Egret 5, Night Heron 1, White Stork 1,Moorhen 40, Spotted Eagle 2, Eastern Imperial Eagle 1, Steppe Eagle 1, Steppe Buzzard 1, Long-legged Buzzard 1,...
This morning I visited with Brian Khiran area. Mr. Annand kindly took us again along chanels and islands by boat. We did our regular survey of birds. Now we couldn’t find Socotra Cormorant anymore on their favourite marker....