Saudi Birding

Yemen Thrush (Turdus menachensis)

A Weekend of Winter Birding Around Riyadh (February 2020)

The weekend before last Adam Harris and I took the SRO train out to Riyadh for his first visit to the province. The train’s become my...

So I spent the morning yesterday doing recces in three wooded wadis around Jebel Soudah in the Asir Province. Both had the tall(ish?)...

From The Birds of Saudi Arabia by Chris Boland and Abdullah Al Suhaibany. Special thanks to Chris for permitting me to share the text...

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

I arrived an hour before sunup to a small village northwest of Billahmer in the Asir highlands. At about 2,700 meters (8,858 feet) above...

The past two weeks since we got back from Texas the weather in Al Ahsa has been incredible. Nice, cool temps by day and a few substantial...

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...

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

Ten years in the Middle East and, to date, here’s the scariest situation I’ve found myself in… December 2018 I was out hiking at a...