Saudi Birding

Yemen Thrush (Turdus menachensis)

A Morning with Magpies in Billahmer: Bittersweet Encounters with One of the World’s Rarest Birds

Magpies belong to the Corvidae family, famously intelligent birds that include ravens, crows, and jays. The name ‘magpie’ derives from...

جواهر ذات أجنحة وغناء: رصدٌ لبعض طيور شبه الجزيرة العربية

تتميَّز المملكة بأنها الدولة التي يمكن أن يُشاهَد فيها أكبر عدد من فصائل الطيور المستوطنة على مستوى العالم، إضافة إلى أنها الدولة الوحيدة...

Possible Breeding Basra Reed Warbler in Riyadh Province

On a visit to Riyadh in May 2019, I headed to Al Ha’ir in the hopes of gathering further evidence Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus...

Jewels in the Crown: Introducing the Endemic Birds of Arabia

While the Republic of Yemen, which includes the island archipelago of Socotra, dubbed the “Galapagos of the Indian Ocean”, boasts the...

Grey Francolin in the KSA – Status Unknown

This past weekend* my wife and I secreted ourselves away in the Ramada hotel in Bahrain for some very un-Saudi recreation. Can’t say more...