What's the craziest thing you've ever done to see a bird? While I can't speak for the other participants on Saudi Birding's spring 2026 Socotran Endemics Tour, crossing nearly 100 miles of open water in a wooden skiff en route to a remote desert island just off the Horn of Africa and all for a sparrow tops my list by a long stretch. And the boat journey was only part of the adventure. Getting permission to visit Abd al Kuri in the first place had seemed almost as improbable a