Saudi Birding

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...

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