Birding Report, Kuwait 3-4 April 2010 by Gordon Saunders and Abdulrahman Al Sirhan
Birding Report 3-4 April 2010 by Gordon Saunders and Abdulrahman Al Sirhan
Friday, April 2, 2010 at Kuwait City and surroundings … very pleasant conditions in early am and warmed up by mid-day, but tolerable.
Marina Hotel/Mall beach area
1 Squacco Heron
8 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater … calling and in view overhead!
4 Pallid Swift
1 Caspian Tern
1 Black-headed Gull
4 Barn Swallow
1 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Swift Tern
10 Yellow Wagtails
1 Common Kestrel
1 Bank Myna
2 Common Mynas
3 Grey Headed Wagtails
4 Red-throated Pipits
1 Common Redstart
Green Island
2 Lesser Crested Tern
2 Common Sandpiper
3 Little Terns .. distant
2 White-eared Bulbul
5 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Eurasian Blackcap (f)
4 Tree Pipit
2 Eurasian Hoopoe
1 Ruppel’s Weaver … with nest that was new from appearance!
5 Common Chiffchaff
2 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
2 Common Redstart … samamisicus ssp
1 Common Swift
1 Reef Heron
2 Slenderbill Gulls
1 African Collared Dove
5 Palm Dove… one with no tail
18 Black Kite … funneling!
Collared Dove 10’s
Sulaibiya Pivot Fields
4 Greater Spotted Eagle
5 Lesser Kestrel ( 2m/3f)
1 Common Kestrel
2 European Bee-eater
1 Pied Wheatear
10 Northern Wheatear
15 Cattle Egret
1 Rufus-tailed Scrub Robin
1 European Roller
1 Steppe Buzzard
1 Pallid Harrier
1 Marsh Harrier (m)
2 Siberian Stonechat … very dark
4 Whinchat (1m/3f)
2 Crested Lark
2 Daurian Shrike …
1 Masked Shrike
4 Imperial Eagle
Yellow Wagtail … 100’s
– flava
– Feldegg
– Flava
3 BIG Egyptian Crocodiles
20 Common Moorhen
Jahra Farms
5 Bank Myna
1 Cinereous Bunting
2 Sand Martin
1 Red-rumped swallow
2 Barn Swallow
Usual good numbers of …
– House Sparrow
– Collared Dove
– Palm Dove
Sabah Al Ahmed Nature Reserve
1 Hoopoe Lark
3 Northern Wheatear
1 Woodchat Shrike
1 Caspian Plover
1 Pied Wheatear
1 Common Kestrel
4 Montagu’s Harrier (m/f)
5 Greater Spotted Eagle … resting as a group by the side of the small reservoir
20 Collared Pratincole … some great aerial views
30 + Red-necked Phalarope
10 Ruff
20 Black-winged Stilt
5 Garganey
1 Northern Pintail
10 Northern Shoveller
2 Marsh Sandpiper
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Greenshank
2 Common Redshank
10 Little Stint
1 Siberian Stonechat … maurus ssp.
2 Common Chiffchaff
2 Common Redstart (m/f)
2 Grey Wagtail
5 White Wagtail
1 Eurasian Blackbird
50+ House Sparrows
2 Spanish Sparrows
20+ Spiny- tailed Lizards … resting by their burrows
Jahra Pool Reserve
4 Common Sandpiper
8 Green Sandpiper
2 Marsh Sandpiper
10 Wood Sandpiper
5 Greenshank
5 Common Redshank
4 Little Crake
1 Spotted Crake
1 Water Rail
4 Gadwall
2 Little Ringed Plover
16 Garganey .. some cracker males!
2 Red-spotted Bluethroat
4 EurasianTeal
50 Little Stint … no Temmick’s seen
1 Purple Swamphen
8 Squacco Heron
1 Common Snipe
4 Penduline Tit … 1 cracker male!
1 Graceful Prinia
1 Little Bittern
30+ Common Moorhen
8 Glossy Ibis
5 Common Swift
50+ Barn Swallow
10 Pallid Swift
2 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
20+ Black-winged Stilt
20 Black-headed Gulls
4 Great Reed Warbler
50+ Common Chiffchaff
3 Northern Pintail
6 Sand Martins
60 Red-necked Phalarope
42 Northern Shovelers
20 Ruff
10 White Wagtail
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Jahra East Outfall
3 Northern Wheatear
1 Black-eared Wheatear
1 Isabeline Wheatear
2 Kentish Plover
5 Barn Swallow
1 Daurian Shrike
5 Great Reed Warbler
4 Basra Reed Warbler
1 Moustached Warbler
2 Spotted Crake
1 Red-spotted Bluethroat
1 Eurasian Blackcap (m)
2 Common Sandpiper
1 Common Greenshank
3 Common Redshank
1 Ruff
9 Glossy Ibis
1 Willow Warbler … in the low sowka scrub
20+ Yellow Wagtail …
– flava
– Feldegg
– Thumbergi
– Lutea … yellow-headed
2 Whinchat
2 Cinereous Bunting
5 White Wagtail
1 Western Osprey
20+Eurasian Curlew
1 Montagu’s Harrier … (f)
1 Marsh Harrier (m)
1 Common Kestrel
20+ Black-headed Gull
1 Greater Spotted Eagle
10 Western Reef Heron
7 Squacco Heron
Sulaibkhat Club
3 Pied Avocet
60 Grey Heron
40 Reef Heron … most dark, at least one light
15 Bar-tailed Godwit … some males is breeding plumage
29 Great Cormorant
10 Terek Sandpiper
2 Curlew Sandpiper
21 Grey Plover … some in breeding plumage
30 Greater Flamingo … no lesser!
1 Common Ring Plover
1 Pied Wheatear
1 Isabelline Wheatear
20 Slender-billed Gull
1 White-throated Robin
2 White-eared Bulbul
Fahaheel Port
2 Sandwich Tern
2 Lesser Crested Tern
2 White-cheeked Tern
Fahaheel Park
2 Semi-collared Flycatcher … (f)
1 Eurasian Wryneck
5 Common Redstart … (m/F0
1 White-throated Robin
1 Eurasian Blackcap (f)
10 Tree Pipit
4 Rufus-tailed Scrub Robin
4 Red-throated Pipit
Usual good numbers of …
– Palm Dove
– Collared Dove
– Common Myna
– White-eared Bulbul