Getting Out of the Mire! African vs Gray-headed SwamphenRecently 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...
The Arabian Lark, Desert EnigmaDecember 2020 broke the spell. After three years of trying, I finally tracked down the Arabian Lark Eremalauda eremodites, and not once...
Pale Sand Martin vs. Common Sand MartinOn January 15, my daughter and I were out at Al Asfar Lake in Al Ahsa, conducting the first of a series of shorebird surveys for 2021....
Long-billed vs. African PipitVisiting birders to the Asir highlands of southwest Saudi Arabia would do well to familiarize themselves with the two resident pipit...