Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
Our main goal this morning was to photograph Sociable Plovers but mist and skittish birds were too big obstacle. However, AbdulRahman and Mike managed to see young Barbary Falcon and I was lucky to find Stock Dove which...
At Pivot Fields it was, of course, the main target for us to see wintering birds. We tried to see Sociable Plovers again which were still there. Northern Lapwing 100+, Sociable Plover 3, Red-wattled Lapwing 1, European Golden Plover...
Pivot Fields: Sociable Lapwing 3 (fourth record for Kuwait), European Golden Plover 5 (fourth record for Kuwait), Long-legged Buzzard 3, Pallid Swifts 5, Common Swift 3, Great Egret 1, Great Cormorant 13, Cattle Egret 12, Black Kite 50,...
At Pivot Fields: Hen Harrier 1, Greenshank 6, Collared Dove 200, Namaqua Dove 54, Cattle Egret 93, Grey Heron 2, Isabelline Shrike 2, Common Buzzard 9, Black Kite 8, Imperial Eagle 3, Common Starling 10, Common Kestrel 10,...
At JEO: Common Snipe 27, Little Ringed Plover 1, Water Rail 1, White Wagtail 1 At Sulaibiya Pivot Fields: White-tailed Lapwing 1, Steppe Eagle 2, Greater Spotted Eagle 4, Common Buzzard 6, Pallid Harrier 4, Montagu’s Harrier 2,...
Cattle Egret 69, Black Kite 17, Pallid Harrier 4, Greater Short-toed Lark 18, Common Buzzard 10, Steppe Eagle 1, Northern Lapwing 6, Greater Spotted Eagle 5, Siberian Stonechat (maurus ssp) 1, Common Kestrel 2, Isabelline Shrike 2, Sand...
At JEO there were 20 bird shooter cars from 6am to 7pm, so I went to Pivot Fields. At Pivot Fields: Spotted Redshank 1, Black-tailed Godwit 1, Whiskered Terns 3, Wood Sandpiper 3, Ruff 15, Marsh Harrier 3,...
Spotted Redshank 1, Little Tern 2, Whiskered Tern 2, Garganey 2, Ruff 20, Little Ringed Plover 1, Purple Heron 28 (seen by Pekka), Black-crowned Night Heron 2, Black Kite 3, Marsh Harrier 2, Common Snipe 4, Black-tailed Godwit...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
European Roller 6, Cattle Egret 18, Little Ringed Plover 1, Lesser Grey Shrike 1, Red-backed Shrike 1 male, Spotted Flycatcher 1, Common Quail 4, Namaqua Dove 6, Lesser Kestrel 6, Squacco Heron 1, Cream-coloured Courser 1, Spanish Sparrow 7, Barn...
On 27/04/2008 the French group found an Oriental Pratincole at JEO at dusk, next day the bird was not relocated. I then re-read the article in Dutch Birding 27:1-35 (2005) by G. Driessens & L. Svensson, referring back to...
