Wednesday, 21 November 2018

UAE - Imminent

Just settled in at "The Mothers"! Fly at 8.45am.

Hoping to get the balance right between socializing and Birding! Time will tell...or Louise will!! Poor weather shouldn't be an issue on this trip, that's for sure. The Bird list is surprisingly extensive...well, to me anyway!

Below is a mixture of new species to me (capitals), plus some other quality...

SOCOTRA CORMORANT
PERSIAN SHEARWATER
RED-BILLED TROPICBIRD
SAND PARTRIDGE
GRAY FRANCOLIN
INDIAN POND HERON
WESTERN REEF HERON
STRIATED HERON
ORIENTAL HONEY BUZZARD
GREAT SPOTTED EAGLE
LAPPET-FACED VULTURE
STEPPE EAGLE
EASTERN IMPERIAL EAGLE
Bonelli's Eagle
Pallid Harrier
Montagu's Harrier
Egyptian Vulture
Booted Eagle
Peregrine
ST Eagle
Golden Eagle
Bonelli's Eagle
SHIKRA
Lesser Kestrel
Amur Falcon
RED-WATTLED LAPWING
WHITE-TAILED LAPWING
Sociable Plover
CRAB PLOVERLesser-Sand Plover
Greater-Sand Plover
Great Knot
PIN-TAILED SNIPE
Cream-coloured Courser
Arctic Skua
Pomarine Skua
SOOTY GULL
GREAT BLACK-HEADED GULL
Slender-billed Gull
SAUNDER'S TERN
WHITE-CHEEKED TERN
Bridled Tern
Caspian Tern
White-winged Tern
Whiskered Tern
Lesser-crested Tern
CHESTNUT-BELLIED SANDGROUSE
LICHTENSTEIN'S SANDGROUSE
PALLID SCOPS OWL
PHAROAH EAGLE OWL
EGYPTIAN NIGHTJAR
ARABIAN COLLARED KINGFISHER
Pied Kingfisher
GREATER HOOPOE LARK
Pied Kingfisher
GREEN BEE-EATER
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Roller
INDIAN ROLLER
Wryneck
ALEXANDRINE PARAKEET
RED-TAILED SHRIKE
Isabelline Shrike
Masked Shrike
HOUSE CROW
BROWN-NECKED RAVEN
Rose-coloured Starling
BAR-TAILED LARK
GREATER HOOPOE LARK
DESERT LARK
BLACK-CROWNED SPARROW LARK
Bimaculated Lark
LESSER SHORT-TOED LARK
ORIENTAL SKYLARK
PALE CRAG MARTIN
ROCK MARTIN
WHITE-SPECTACLED BULBUL
WHITE-EARED BULBUL
SCRUB WARBLER
PLAIN LEAF WARBLER
CLAMOROUS REED WARBLER
GRACEFUL PRINIA
Asian Desert Warbler
MENETRIES WARBLER
ARABIAN BABBLER
RUFOUS-TAILED SCRUB ROBIN
Rock Thrush
Blue Rock Thrush
Black-throated Thrush
HYPOCOLIUS
RED-TAILED WHEATEAR
VARIABLE WHEATEAR
Hooded Wheatear
HUME’S WHEATEAR
MOURNING WHEATEAR
VARIABLE WHEATEAR
Pied Wheatear
Desert Wheatear
Tawny Pipit
Trumpeter Finch
LONG BILLED PIPIT
Blyth's Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Citrine Wagtail
Masked Wagtail
STRIOLATED BUNTING

Let's GO... 

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