Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
At Sulaibikhat: Armenian Gull 5, Caspian Gull 6, Heuglin’s Gull6, Steppe Gull 3. At Jahra Pool Reserve: Eurasian Curlew 80, Eurasian Oystercatcher 17, Pallid Swift 50. Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans note long legs and pale upperparts. Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans...
Pivot Fields: Buff-bellied Pipit 1 (13th record if accepted by KORC), Steppe Buzzard 1, Long-legged Buzzard 2, Eastern Imperial Eagle 2, Greater Spotted Eagle 1, Cattle Egret 71, Water Pipit 30, Isabelline Wheatear 2, White Wagtail 5, Grey...
Eastern Greylag Goose 1, Eurasian Coot 3. Eastern Greylag Goose Anser anser rubrirostri (juvenile)
This is my last posting this year. I went in the morning to check Drongos at Jahra Farms. Yes they are still there and in fact I found them early morning in the same tree top where they...
Purple Swamphen 5, Black Kite 20, Greater Spotted Eagle 2, Garganey 3, Mallard 21, European Stonechat 3, Graceful Prinia 3, Daurian Shrike 3, Steppe Grey Shrike 2, Water Rail 1, Eurasian Coot 3, Clamorous Reed Warbler 1, Moustached...
At JEO: Little Egret 13, Greater Spotted Eagle 1,Western Great Egret 1 At JPR: Purple Swamphen 3, Common Moorhen 20, Water Rail 1, Eurasian Coot 5, White-spotted Bluethroat 5, Water Pipit 8, Little Grebe 3, Common Snipe 20, Common...
This morning Mohd Khorshed has found and photographed a Rufous Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis meena at Jahra Pool Reserve, this would be the 7th record if accepted by KORC. Rufous Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis meena by Mohd Khorshed
Jahra Pool: Purple Heron 20, Basra Reed Warbler 1, Sparrowhawk 1, Steppe Grey Shrike 3, Marsh Sandpiper 4, Grey Heron 11, Squacco Heron 2, Spotted Flycatcher 2, Graceful Prinia 2, Yellow Wagtail 20 mostly feldegg ssp., Water Pipit...
Edit: a consensus is reached that the bird is more likely to be an abnormal Richard’s Pipit rather than a Blyth’s Pipit due to a number of reasons mentioned in the comments below. Today in the evening I was at...
Pekka Fågel, Simon Price and I went to Jahra Pool Reserve, the following species have been seen: Garganey 20, Northern Shoveler 7, Green Sandpiper 5, Northern Pintail 1, Purple Swamphen 2, Spotted Crake 2 Purple Heron 1, Common Snipe...
Pivot Fields was very quiet, the small pool to the left of the gate has no water anymore to attract migrant birds. Isabelline Wheatear 10, Common Moorhen 6, White-throated Kingfisher 1, Wood Sandpiper 1, House Sparrow 1000, Black-headed...
I visited this morning once again with Brian Foster Al Abraq and later on Jahra Pool reserve. Mahmoud Al Sehab joined us in Al Abraq and followed us to Jahra Pool Reserve. In Al Abraq the most common...
I visited these sites in the morning. Jahra Farms namely Ali’s farm yeldied my first Semi-collared Flycatcher this spring. Bank Mynas and White-throated Kingfishers are breeding now. At Jahra Pool Reserve I photographed Marsh Sandpiper in breeding plumage....
Jahra Pool Reserve is very much welcomed site with fresh water and reedbeds. It provides excellent environment for those birds that we used to find at Jarra East Outfall. The latter one being under threat we have now ...
On 14/12/2009 Khaled Al-Ghanem found three Great Crested Grebes, a rare bird in Kuwait, at the eastern part of Jahra Pool Reserve (a coastal area). Great Crested Grebe 3, Eurasian Wigeon 63, Common Shelduck 3
Two Ferruginous Ducks were seen today 2 December 2009 at Jahra Pool Reserve by Khaled Al-Ghanem, this is the 7th record for Kuwait. Also during our trip to Yemen Mohd Khorshed has found the 7th record for Kuwait of...