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.

Owing to its high number of endemic flora and fauna, the Socotran Archipelago has been dubbed "the Gal á pagos of the Indian Ocean". Indeed, the sheer number of life forms unique to the archipelago's four main islands —Socotra, Darsah, Samhah, and Abd al Kuri—puts it in a notable fifth after New Zealand, Hawaii , New Caledonia , and the Galápagos themselves for remote island chains with the highest rates of endemism. While the bulk of these endemics are insects and plants, i