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2024 Saudi Birding Tours

Winter 2024 The first consideration when planning a birding trip to Saudi is when to visit. No matter which season you ultimately decide...

Questing for Gold: 2023 Saudi Birding Summer Tour!

Tour Dates: July 1 - 7, 2023 Participants: Max Berlijn, John Clark, Rob Dobson, Tim Doran, Enno Ebels, and Rob Leighton Leader: Gregory...

Getting Out of the Mire! African vs Gray-headed Swamphen

Recently a misidentified swamphen from Qatar in my eBird review queue brought my attention to the fact the small Gulf nation has both...

The Prinias of Eastern Arabia: Graceful (P. gracilis) vs Delicate (P. lepida)

Originally posted January 4, 2022 A Taxonomic Tangle The Graceful Prinia (Prinia gracilis) is a small, brownish, long-tailed warbler of...

Birding the Greater Jeddah Area

When I first moved to Saudi Arabia, I'd often heard the expression "Jeddah ghair" (Jeddah is different), owing to the perception of the...

2023 Arabian Endemics Tour!

I am excited to announce that I am offering a personally guided tour of Saudi's southwest in October 2023. Spaces are filling up, so...

Birding Saudi's Northeast

Saudi's northeast is a major industrial and commercial center in the Kingdom. The region borders Kuwait to the north and the Persian Gulf...

This Saturday! May Big Day of Birding 2022

As part of the third Global Bird Weekend and in celebration of World Migratory Bird Day, Saturday, May 14 is the Cornell Lab of...

Saudi Arabia's First-ever International Bird Tour!

Highlights: Harlequin Quail (Arabian) (E ssp) Arabian Partridge (E) Philby's Partridge (E) Nubian Nightjar Abyssinian (Montane) Nightjar...

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