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Buff-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe bottae)
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Questing for Gold: 2023 Saudi Birding Summer Bird Tour!
Tour Dates: July 1 - 7, 2023 Participants: Max Berlijn, John Clark, Rob Dobson, Tim Doran, Enno Ebels, and Rob Leighton Leader: Gregory...
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Getting Out of the Mire! African vs Gray-headed Swamphen
Update (October 2025): The Swamphen Relump As of Avilist v2025 , the Purple Swamphen complex ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) has been lumped back into a single species after review by the AviList Taxonomic Committee. This unified treatment brings together the former Western ( P. porphyrio ), Gray-headed ( P. poliocephalus ), and African Swamphen ( P. madagascariensis ) back under one wide-ranging species. Because eBird and Clements are transitioning to the new AviList taxonomy, b
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Birding Saudi's Northeast
Saudi's northeast is a major industrial and commercial center in the Kingdom. The region borders Kuwait to the north and the Persian Gulf...
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Saudi Arabia's First-ever International Bird Tour!
Highlights: Harlequin Quail (Arabian) (E ssp) Arabian Partridge (E) Philby's Partridge (E) Nubian Nightjar Abyssinian (Montane) Nightjar...
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Borderland Birding in Al Batha
This past Friday brought me back down to the borderland area between the UAE and Qatar in the hopes of documenting the carpenteri...
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