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A Kingdom of Birds: Birding in Saudi Arabia

with Gregory Askew السلام عليكم! As-salaam 'alaikum! "The Desert is Not Deserted" The Saudi I Know and Love At the Crossroads of Three...

Locked Down but Not Locked In: Talking Birds, Turtles, and More with Samuel Hodge*

As the eBird reviewer for Saudi Arabia one of my responsibilities is to ensure the validity of the sightings being entered into the eBird...

Kindling the Local Fire: An Interview with Abdullah Al Shaikh Hussain

Back in October of last year I met some members of the Birds Monitoring Group, a group of Saudi bird photographers mostly from the Al...

The Lesser Whitethroat Complex

After all the driving out to Tarout Island and Futaih and then back again yesterday, I decided to stay local this lovely Saturday...

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...

Help Needed in Saudi: The Saudi Birding Community’s Effort to Track Down a Tagged Egyptian Vulture

The weekend before last*, Yoav Perlman, an Israeli ornithologist and blogger, forwarded the following email from Ron Efrat, a researcher...

For the Love of Arabian Birds: An Interview with Abdulrahman Al Sirhan

2019 was a great year for Saudi birding and not just because this was the year the Kingdom finally opened its doors to international...

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