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

 

Friday 25 October 2024

Oman (Day 1)

Sooty Falcon
Red-billed Tropicbird
Greater Crested Tern
Red-billed Tropicbird
Indian Roller
Grey Francolin
Arabian Green Bee-eater
Spotted Flycatcher
Delicate Prinia
Purple Sunbird
Common Myna