Sunday, 17 November 2024

Funton WeBS

Pintail

Pintail and Dark-bellied Brent Geese

Cormorant

Dark-bellied Brent Goose

Pintail

Shelduck

Common Gull

Common Gull

 

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Oman (Day 12)

Wryneck

Arabian Wheatear


Long-legged Buzzard

Blue Rock Thrush

Blue Rock Thrush

Arabian Partridge

(Isabelline Shrike)

(Isabelline Shrike)

Arabian Partridge

Yemen Serin

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Yemen Serin

Gull-billed Tern



 

Monday, 4 November 2024

Oman Tour (Day 11) Part 1

Presumed Forbes-Watson's Swift images photographed at Taqah Cliffs/Viewpoint, Oman. Suite of features across the images include broad tail feathers, extent of (pointed) white throat patch, white tipped fringes to underparts and white edges to underwing coverts forming distinct bar.

References:
Andrew Grieve & Guy M. Kirwan, 2012. Studies of Socotran birds VII. Forbes-Watson's Swift Apus berliozi in Arabia - the answer to the mystery of the 'Dhofar swift'

Jens Eriksen & Richard Porter, 2017. Birds of Oman












Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (leucistic individual on left)

Greater Spotted Eagle

Short-toed Snake Eagle

Short-toed Snake Eagle

Short-toed Snake Eagle

Bonelli's Eagle

Bonelli's Eagle

European Nightjar

Red-knobbed Coot

Glossy Ibis

Western Reef Heron

Slender-billed Gull

Oman Tour (Day 11) Part 2

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Graceful Prinia

Black-crowned Night Heron

 

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Oman (Day 5)

Spotted Flycatcher

Desert Wheatear

Desert Wheatear

Desert Wheatear

Little Stint

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Medium Egret

Whiskered Tern

Whiskered Tern

Red-throated Pipit

Red-throated Pipit

Pacific Golden Plover

Pacific Golden Plover

Pacific Golden Plover

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher