Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
Birdwatching Tour reports from Kuwait are shown here. After every birdwatching tour, I compile a report of all logistics and bird sightings and a list of all birds seen each day, and a final bird list of the tour.
Kuwait Spring Tour 15-23 April 2025 This another successful Spring tour where we had seen most of our target species with an extra Purple Sunbird and Pied Bushchat, two Western Palearctic specialities. Kuwait tour 25 Apr to 1...
Participants: six participants, one leader, and one guide ‘AbdulRahman Alsirhan’ Written by: A Alsirhan Introduction: We were fortunate to see all the possible endemic species. The Arabian Lark was not targeted as it doesn’t occur in Asir and...
by Birdsofkuwait.com Participants: Aidan Kelly, Dermot Omahony, Chris Straw, AbdulRahman Alsirhan (tour guide) Written by: A Alsirhan All photographs by Alsirhan Introduction: We were fortunate to see all the possible endemic species. The Arabian Lark was not targeted...
Participants: AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan, Chris Lansdell and Graham Sorrie Written by: A Al-Sirhan Sri Lanka is officially known as the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon. It was once known as Serendib, a name used...
Day 1: 11/11/2019 KISR western side outfall We left the hotel at 6 AM to arrive our first site. Looking through the telescope for less than half a minute I relocated the Lesser Flamingo amongst more than 900...
Tour participants (from left to right): Paul Nilsson (Danish), Marc Lucas (Belgium), Gordon Cox (British), Graham Clarke (Irish), Jim John Christensen (Danish), Anders Hammergart (Danish), AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan (Tour leader), Daniel Mauras (French), Nicholas Watmough (British). Day 1: 13/04/2019...
All photographs in this report were supplied by Daniel Mauras ©2018. Day 1: 12/11/2018 Kuwait had experienced heavy rain just two weeks before the tour starts. This had its toll on bird numbers and diversity. Rain was expected...
The following photographs were kindly supplied by Christopher Elmer. Day 1: 08/04/2018 We went to west of KISR to search for the Hypocolius, it wasn’t there! Highlights were a Turkestan Shrike, Armenian Gull, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, and an...
First day 12/11/2017: We started at Al-Shallal’s Farm, where we hoped to find some rarities such as the Eversmann’s Redstart, but it was quiet there, we had our first White-eared Bulbul there. Birds that were seen there: Eurasian...
Participants: Michel Gerber and Martin Miguel. The tour was another success, although missed the Shikra, Eversmann’s Redstart and the Crested Honey Buzzard, but were replaced with Indian Roller, Buff-bellied pipit, Pallid Scops Owl and Sykes’s Warbler!!! Other highlights include...
12th November: Arrival at Kuwait airport and overnight at Continental Inn. 13th November: At 6am we left the hotel with boxed breakfast towards Abu Al-Hasaniya. There we first encountered eleven Lesser Crested Tern then a Greater Crested Tern...
Birding Report 3-4 April 2010 by Gordon Saunders and Abdulrahman Al Sirhan Friday, April 2, 2010 at Kuwait City and surroundings … very pleasant conditions in early am and warmed up by mid-day, but tolerable. Marina Hotel/Mall beach...