The Asir Magpie is a stunning black-and-white bird found only in the southwest of Saudi Arabia Magpies belong to the Corvidae family,...

Total Avian Species: 151 Total Endemics and Near-Endemics: 17 Highlights: Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris mitratus Harlequin Quail...

Visiting birders to the Asir highlands of southwest Saudi Arabia would do well to familiarize themselves with the two resident pipit...

Trip Highlights: Arabian Partridge Philby’s Partridge Hamerkop Arabian Scops Owl African Paradise Flycatcher Asir Magpie Arabian Wheatear...

Why do we bird? The standing theory is that our passion is a sublimation of primal predatory instincts. To be sure, birders employ their...

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...