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Buff-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe bottae)
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A Late Summer Visit to Makkah Province (August 2020)
After getting back from our week-long birding adventure in the southwest of the Kingdom, Michelle and I were looking at two more weeks of...


A Morning with Magpies in Billahmer: Bittersweet Encounters with One of the World’s Rarest Birds
The Asir Magpie is a stunning black-and-white bird found only in the southwest of Saudi Arabia Magpies belong to the Corvidae family,...


Jizan to Al Namas: A Saudi Birding Epic (July 2020)
Total Avian Species: 151 Total Endemics and Near-Endemics: 17 Highlights: Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris mitratus Harlequin Quail...


Saudi Birding in Abha: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly! (January 2020)
So I spent the morning yesterday doing recces in three wooded wadis around Jebel Soudah in the Asir Province. Both had the tall(ish?)...


Birding Billahmer (January 2020)
I arrived an hour before sunup to a small village northwest of Billahmer in the Asir highlands. At about 2,700 meters (8,858 feet) above...
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