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Buff-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe bottae)
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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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