Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
Back to Kuwait after long summer in Finland. First visit to Al Abraq produced 3 Egyptian Nightjars, Citrine Wagtail and some other interesting migrants like 6 Golden Orioles and Wryneck. Citrine Wagatil (Motacilla citreola)
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...
White-cheeked Tern 13 (including juveniles), Little Tern 3, Indian Reed Heron 4, House Crow 12, Common Myna 10, Crested Lark 4, Black-tailed Godwit 4, Bar-tailed Godwit 2, Sanderling 5, Black-winged Stilt 4, Greater Sand Plover 4, Slender-billed Gull...
Sulaibikhat Bay: Ruddy Turnstone 10, Greater Sand Plover 15, Lesser Sand Plover 1, Kentish Plover 10, Slender-billed Gull 20, Armenian Gull 2, Steppe Gull, Little Stint 30, Curlew Sandpiper 20, Greater Flamingo 700, Terek Sandpiper 2, Indian Reef...
The wind has been mostly southernly blowing that prevented the large influx at this time of the year. The birds were more or less the same as to my last visit to this site three days ago except...
Eurasian Oystercatcher 1, Lesser Sand Plover 1, Greater Sand Plover 4, Steppe Gull 10, Armenian Gull 5, Slender-billed Gull 50, Heuglin’s Gull 3, Little Stint 1, Curlew Sandpiper 200, Ruddy Turnstone 10, Common Ringed Plover 3, Indian Reef...
Eurasian Hoopoe 24, Spotted Flycatcher 2, Black-headed Bunting 10, European Bee-eater 100, European Roller 4, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin 3, Upcher’s Warbler 1, Black Kite 1, Barn Swallow 18, Rose-coloured Starling 1, Red-backed Shrike 3, Willow Warbler 2, Common...
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...
Eurasian Hoopoe 11, European Bee-eater 5, Great Reed Warbler 5, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin 6, Barn Swallow 6, Black-headed Bunting 2, Sand Martin 1, Isabelline Wheatear 7, European Roller 3, Upcher’s Warbler 5, Yellow Wagtail 4, Lesser Grey Shrike...
Migration is gaining momentum slowly, so this morning I went to many sites to see what is out there. Pivot Fields: It was very quiet but I did see some birds; Isabelline Wheatear 1, European Roller 1, Eurasian...
Mike Pope and I went to Al-Abraq today. Migration has already started slowly with the usual birds such Isabelline Wheatear which arrived on 25 of July, Upcher’s Warblers etc. At Al-Abraq: Upcher’s Warbler 3, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin 2,...
In a follow up visit to Kubbar Island, OSK members discovered three pairs of Swift Terns on a nest with one egg amongst the breeding colony of Lesser Crested Tern. Another four pairs of Swift Terns were displaying...
A brief visit to Kubbar Island produced the following breeding adults: White-cheeked Tern 3000, Lesser Crested Tern 500, Bridled Tern 4000. The good rain this year has improved the habitat for the breeding terns. The perennial bushes of Suaeda...
On 29/05/2010 Mohammed Khorshed an OSK member has briefly seen a falcon that stopped at Tulha at Sabah Al-Ahmed Natural Reserve only to drink and leave Mohammed only obtained photographs in flight. Later the bird was posted at OSK forum (www.oskonline.org/forum) and...
Season starts to be over by now. I had one Yellow Wagtail, one Spotted Flycatcher and one Norther Wheatear at Tulha – not much compared to fews weeks back. However, it was really nice to find juvenile Dunn’s...
