Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
Isolated farm in the middle of desert surely draws birds attention. Actually it offers much needed relief to them. Leaking taps and water reservoir are visited by hundreds if not thousands of birrds on their way to wintering grounds. Black Kite 15,...
SAANR and pool at Tulha allways atracts birds. Juvenile Cuckoo had arrived and it was as exhausted as other migrants in hot weather. An other new migrant was European Nightjar. European Nightjar 1, Common Cuckoo 1, Southern Grey Shrike 5, Masked...
Once again Pivot Fields produced new species for this season. They were two White Storks (Initially found by Musaeed Al-Saleh) and three Caspian Plovers. White Stork 2, Ruff 20+, Common Snipe 1, Green Sandpiper 1, Northern Lapwing 1,...
It was a surprise not to see any raptor in Tulha although Al Abraq was flooded with raptors on previous day. With a kind help by Khalid Al-Ghanem I managed to get both photographs shown below. Common Quail...
It was soon obvious that raptor migration had started. First for this autumn were Steppe Eagle, Booted Eagle and Pallid Harrier. Also Ortolan Bunting was new. Steppe Eagle 1, Booted Eagle 1, Montagu’s Harrier 1, Pallid Harrier 3,...
Tulha produced quite typical species of this time of the year. Isabelline Shrike embraced it’s notorius reputation to hit small birds around. This time one poor Yellow Wagtail lost it’s life. It looks like that Shrike is interested only of...
First for this autumn were Spotted Eagle, Northern Lapwing and Tawny Pipit with which I didn’t have luck in photographingi them. Great Bittern n:o 2 had moved 1 km NW and was enjoying waterspray from irrigation system. Montagu’s Harrier 3,...
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...
Again new species turned up in Al Abraq. Todays’s highlight was Grasshopper Warbler which is not very rare but rarely seen well and hardly ever before photographed in Kuwait. This time Mike, Ian and myself were lucky enough to...
After quite empty handed trip to Abdaly I decided to visit Jahra Farms once again. Rashed Al-Hajji was there and he kindly helped me to get finally nice shots of Golden Oriole. According to Rashed also Eastern Bonelli’s...
I was tempted to visit Pivot Fields again this morning like Khalid Al-Ghanem too in hope to get some good pictres of Great Bittern. While photographing we noticed that there must be two birds and indeed my two...
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...
Rick, Mike and me decided to visit this morning Pivot Fields also because Abdulrahman had seen Great Bittern over there two days ago. Wet area was expanded significantly thus providing good habitat for many species though number of Garganeys was...
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...