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The November 2024 Custom Bird Tour with Saudi Birding
Tour Dates: November 8 - 22, 2024 Guests: Kristi and Peter Guide: Gregory Askew Avian Highlights: See-see Partridge Sand Partridge...


The October 2024 Private Bird Tour with Saudi Birding
Tour Dates: October 5 - 13, 2024 Guests: Jonathan Franzen and Charles Hood Guide: Gregory Askew Avian Highlights: Sand Partridge Arabian...


Beating the Heat: The Saudi Birding June Bird Tour
Tour Dates: June 14 - 21, 2024 Participants: Keith Betton, Franz and Henk Hendriks, Raphael Jordan, Wiel Poelmans, Peter de Rouw, and...


African Stonechat (Saxicola torquatus felix)
A male African Stonechat perched atop a juniper tree near the edge of the Raydah Escarpment in the Asir Region. A female was also...


Mission Impossible? Separating Yellow-billed from Medium Egret in Arabia
Update (July 28, 2025): New evidence from the Jazan region confirms the presence of Medium Egret ( Ardea intermedia ) in southwestern...


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...


Fall 2023 Arabian Endemics Bird Tour with Saudi Birding
Tour Dates: October 6 - October 13, 2023 Participants: Clyde Blum, Jacob Bourgeois, Frank Clayton, Jon Gallagher, Jim Hein, Mark Houston,...


Questing for Gold: 2023 Saudi Birding Summer Bird 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...
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