Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
A brief trip to Kebd yielded the usual early migrants, including many shrikes (Southern Grey, Isabelline and Woodchat), as well as the residents Dunn’s Lark and Black-crowned Sparrow-lark. A rather tame male Blue Rock Thrush was hunting for...
A quick trip to JEO watching the reedbeds from just one location revealed at least 3 different Little Crakes. Note the very long toes on the bird in the second photograph. Graceful Prinias were very active marking out...
Mountain Chiffchaffs (two bird were calling) 10+, Great Read Warbler 4, Little Crake 2, Moutached Warbler 1, Barn Owl 1 (heard calling), Yellow Wagtail feldegg ssp. 5+, White Wagtail 10+, Barn Swallow 100+, Water Pipit 4. Barn Swallow became very...
At JEO: Mountain Chiffchaffs 2 (seen and heard calling), Moustached Warbler 1, Grey Wagtail 1, Yellow Wagtail feldegg ssp., At Pivot Fields: Shikra 1 (was flying outside Pivot Fields before the enterance), Pied Wheatear 3, Collared Pratincole 2,...
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1, Eastern Orphean Warbler 1, Southern Grey Shrike 1, Black-eared Wheatear 1, Eurasian Sparrowhawk 1, Isabelline Shrike phoenicuroides ssp. Great Spotted Cuckoo A Great Spotted Cuckoo eating a juvenile Dhab (spiny-tailed Lizard, Uromastyx aegyptia mirolepis) Eastern Orphean...
Steppe Eagle 3, Imperial Eagle 1, Greater Spotted Eagle 2, Long-legged Buzzard 1, Pallid Harrier 1 male, Common Kestrel 1, Western Marsh Harrier 1, Squacco Heron 1, Little Egret 1, Common Quail 4, Collared Pratincole 2, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater...
Short-toed Eagle 1, Steppe Eagle 4, Common Kestrel 3, Eurasian Hoopoe 5, Isabelline Shrike 1, Woodchat Shrike 1, Southern Grey Shrike 4, Eurasian Sparrowhawk 1, Isabelline Wheatear 13, Desert Wheatear 1, Northern Wheatear 2, Pied Wheatear 11, Tawny...
Rock Thrush 1, Pallid Harrier 1, Black Redstart 1. Rock Thrush Pallid Harrier Black Redstart
Mountain Chiffchaff (was calling) 1, Water Rail 4, Spotted Crake 1, Little Crake 4, Sedge Warbler 2, Siberian Stonechat variegatus ssp. 1, Siberian Stonechat maurus ssp. 1, Great Reed Warbler 1, Northern Wheatear 1, Pied Kingfisher, Song Thrush 1,...
Steppe Eagle 1, Blue Rock Thrush 2, Rock Thrush 1, Southern Grey Shrike 6, Woodchat Shrike 1, Pied Wheatear 5, 1 Common Whitethroat (first observation of the year). Woodchat Shrike
A. Near greenhouses: Isabelline Wheatear 10, Southern Grey Shrike 6, European Stonechat 6, Eurasian hoopoe 8, Tawny Pipit 5, Menetries Warbler 2, Common Chiffchaff 5, Grey Wagtail 1, Pied Wheatear 2, Northern Wheatear 1. B. New extension: Southern...
At Pivot Fields: European Stonechats 2, Tawny Pipit 11, Eurasian Hoopoe 14, Woodchat Shrike 3, Red-throated Pipit 1, Pied Wheatear 6, Imperial Eagle 4, Steppe Eagle 2, Siberian Stonechat ssp. variegatus 4, Northern Wheatear 1, Little Egret 1,...
Rashed had photographed a Grey Wagtail the first for this spring 1, a Southern Grey Shrike 1, Pied Wheatear 1 and a Common Quail 1. Grey Wagtail. Pied Wheatear Common Quail Southern Grey Shrike
Barn swallow 60+, Greater-spotted eagle 2, Short-toed eagle 1, Long-legged buzzard 2, Common Kestrel 1, Harrier (ring-tailed) 1, Hoopoe 20+, Pied wheatear 2, Desert wheatear 1, Isabelline wheatear 30+, Northern wheatear 2, Grey heron 1, Little egret 1,...
Rashed at JEO had photographed a Red-rumped Swallow 1, Pied Wheatear 1.Red-rumped Swallow. Pied Wheatear
Today Pekka Fågel tried to relocate the Purple Sunbird at Subiya but his efforts were in vain. As far as I know it was last seen by me on 10/02/2008. Pekka Found a Desert Warbler 1, a Common...