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Mission Impossible? Separating Yellow-billed from Medium Egret in Arabia
In 2023, eBird released a taxonomic update, and as with previous revisions, birders on the Arabian Peninsula have found themselves...
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Getting Out of the Mire! African vs Gray-headed Swamphen
Recently a misidentified swamphen from Qatar in my eBird review queue brought my attention to the fact the small Gulf nation has both...
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The Arabian Lark, Desert Enigma
December 2020 broke the spell. After three years of trying, I finally tracked down the Arabian Lark Eremalauda eremodites, and not once...
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Pale Sand Martin vs. Common Sand Martin
On January 15, my daughter and I were out at Al Asfar Lake in Al Ahsa, conducting the first of a series of shorebird surveys for 2021....
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Long-billed vs. African Pipit
Visiting birders to the Asir highlands of southwest Saudi Arabia would do well to familiarize themselves with the two resident pipit...
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