Guest blog by Fraser Bell from Birding Ecotours about our highly successful birding tour in Oman featuring Arabian endemics, diverse habitats, and memorable wildlife encounters throughout the country.

According to the Birds of the Middle East (3rd ed.), the native range of White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis) is from Iraq, Iran, to...

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

2019 was a great year for Saudi birding and not just because this was the year the Kingdom finally opened its doors to international...