The Birds of Kuwait website

The Birds of Kuwait website

Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus
15-16-17/10/2024 at various sites

Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus male Jahra Pool Reserve 15/10/2025: Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata 25, Mallard Anas platyrhynchos 1, Eurasian Collared Dove…

European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
17-18/08/2024

A visit to the coastal area, at KISR side, on a scorching summer day, just before noon, revealed clear signs…

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Birdwatching Tours in Kuwait

Most birdwatchers visit Kuwait in birding tours to see the vulnerable Basra Reed Warbler
Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis

Welcome to the Kuwait Birdwatching Tours. We offer the best birdwatching and bird guiding tours in the Eastern Southern corner of the Western Palearctic. Thus, we have several bird specialties.

The Winter Tour

The Winter Tour focuses on finding very interesting bird specialties.  These include Asian shikra, Hypocolius, Crab Plover, Crested Honey Buzzard, Eversmann’s Redstart, Indian Roller, Pallid Scops Owl, Red-tailed Wheatear, Hume’s Leaf Warbler, Afghan Babbler. Also, we offer custom-tailored birding trips in Kuwait.

Follow this link to see what Kuwait Birding Tours has to offer.

Birding Sites in Kuwait

The Crab-plover, a Western Palearctic specialty for Birdwatching Tours
Crab-plover Dromas ardeola

This is the page that includes all birdwatching sites in Kuwait. When visiting Kuwait, as a birdwatcher/birder, one needs to know where to go for birdwatching. I compiled this list of birding sites to help birdwatchers know where to go and what to expect there. There is a diversity of birdwatching sites that is interesting; from the plain desert, where you see lark, wetlands such as the famous Jahra Pools Reserve, and desert oases such as Abraq al Habari, the Jal al Zour ridges, and the coastal areas. Thus there is a diversity of birds in this small country. The Birdwatching Sites page also includes a state-of-the-art interactive map of all birding sites in Kuwait. See it here!

Kuwait Bird List

The Hypocolius the best bird in Kuwait Bird List that a visiting birdwatcher wants to see
Hypocolius is a Western Palearctic target species

The Bird of Kuwait List is the official Kuwait Bird List, validated, endorsed, and approved by Kuwait Ornithological Rarities Committee (KORC). The Kuwait Bird Checklist is reviewed and updated after every KORC meeting. The status of each bird in the Kuwait bird list is stated under each species’ name and is what KORC has agreed upon based on our current knowledge. The Highest Daily Count (HDC) is stated under the status is taken from the past database and is now heavily dependent on data obtained from data entered in eBird.org or from records reported directly to me from trusted birders. See the list here.

I have compiled a bird photo gallery of all the bird species recorded in Kuwait. The gallery includes some status text now, but I will be adding more text and distribution maps, both local and worldwide, as I finish them. I will be adding more photos shortly when I am not busy.

Please visit the Kuwait Bird Photo gallery here link…