21/03/2014 at JEO, Jahra Farms, Abdali Farms, Kabd Reserve and Sulaibikhat Bay

Today I bird-guided a Norwegian Visitor named Knut Arne. We managed to see 86 species:

At Kabd Reserve:

Great Spotted Cuckoo 1, Common Cuckoo 1, White-throated Robin 1, Common Rock Thrush 1, Pallid Harrier 2, Western Black Redstart 1, Common Redstart 2, Central-Asian Black redstart (Phoenicurus (ochruros) phoenicuroides) 1, Eastern Orphean Warbler 1, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Hume’s Whitethroat 1, Isabelline Wheatear 20, Red-tailed Wheatear 1, Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 6, Pied Wheatear 20, Northern Wheatear 12, Crested Lark 2, Greater Short-toed Lark 2, Woodchat Shrike 2, Mauryan Grey Shrike 3, Turkestan Shrike 16, Daurian Shrike 2, Collared Dove 8, Laughing Dove 6, Lesser Kestrel 25, Common Kestrel 3, Common Chiffchaff 20, Pallid Swift 2, Sand Martin 1,  Caspian Stonechat 3, Tawny Pipit 10, Meadow Pipit 2, Red-throated Pipit 1, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 12, Barred Warbler 1, Eurasian Blackcap 1, Eastern Cinereous Bunting 2, White Wagtail 1.

At JEO: Little Crake 15, Spotted Crake 2, Purple Swamphen 4, Common Moorhen 20, Common Coot 6, Black-headed Gull 40, Slender-billed Gull 5, Little Egret 2, Little Grebe 20, Wood Sandpiper 3, Common Sandpiper 1, Green Sandpiper 1, Greater Flamingo 4, Common Snipe 1,  Great Cormorant 2, Graceful Prinia 2, Common Redshank 5, Pallid Swift 10, Squacco Heron 1, Black-winged Stilt 8, Purple Heron 1.

Abdali Farms:

Afghan Babbler 4, Graceful Prinia 3, White-eared Bulbul 8, Byzantine Stonechat 1.

Sulaibikhat Bay:

Grey Heron 180, Indian Reef Egret 20,  Little Egret 2,, Terek Sandpiper 50, Kentish Plover 10, Slender-billed Gull 200, Black-headed Gull 400, Common Sandpiper 10, Eurasian Curlew 100, Redshank 400, Ruddy Turnstone 10,  Dunlin c. 1000,  Greater Flamingo c. 700,  Northern Shoveler 5, Greater Spotted Eagle 1, Heuglin’s Gull 6, Common Tern 6, Little Tern 4, Caspian Tern 20, Grey Plover 25, Squacco Heron 9, Ruff 2, Common Myna 1.

Jahra Farms:

Semi-collared Flycatcher 1, Bank Myna 2, Common Myna 5, White-vented Myna 1, Rose-ringed Parakeet 2, Song Thrush 1, White-eared Bulbul 15, Laughing Dove 5, Collared Dove 5, Eurasian Wryneck 1, House Sparrow 20.

Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius 

2 Responses

  1. Dr R Rajagopal says:

    great birding!

  2. Knut Arne says:

    Thank you Abdul for a great day with over 15 lifers!