Records for H1, 2025

Baillon’s Crake Zapornia pusilla. Two Irkayya Farm, 17 February 2025 (E & R Cohen, P Marra). Fifth record.

Little Crake Zapornia parva. Two Irkayya Farm, 21 February 2025 (E Cohen, C Limbach).  Tenth record.

Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus. One Um Shukhoot, 21 May 2025 (photographed by local inhabitants). Fifth record.

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Eurasian Griffon Vulture

 

Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca.  One immature Sailiya STP, 3 January 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). 11th record.

Eastern Imperial Eagle   ©Bassel Abi Jumaa

 

Black Stork Ciconia negra. One Abu Nakhlah, 17 May 2025 (D Wijewardana). Fifth record.

Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula. One Kharrarah, 11 February 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). Third record.

Temminck’s Lark Eremophila bilopha. One Al Uraida, near Alkhor city, 28 May 2025 (Mohammad Al Muhamadi). First record.

Hume’s Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei. One Museum of Islamic Arts Park, 19 March 2025 (E Cohen). Second record.

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Hume’s Leaf Warbler  © Eitan Cohen

 

Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus. One Kharrarah, 31 January 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). Seventh record.

Sykes’s Warbler Iduna rama. Three Kharrarah and one Sealine Beach Resort, 23 May 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). Second-third records.

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Sykes’s Warbler ©Bassel Abi Jumaa

 

Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides. One Irkayya Farm, 3 March 2025 (C Limbach, K Bowers); two Sailiya STP, 22 March 2025 (A Landswerk). Sixth-seventh records.

Common Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia. One Kharrarah, 28 March 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). Seventh record.

Garden Warbler Sylvia borin. Two Kharrarah, 9 May 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). 12th record.

Common Blackbird Turdus merula. One Kharrarah, 24 January 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). Sixth record.

Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe. One Al Wakra Beach/Mangroves, 2 May 2025 (D Wijewardana). 15th record.

Caspian Stonechat Saxicola maurus hemprichii. One Kharrarah, 7 March 2025 (B Abi Jummaa). 14th record.

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Caspian Stonechat  ©Bassel Abi Jumaa

 

White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga. One north of Umm Almaa, 25 January 2025 (K & S Andrews). Fifth record.

Richard’s Pipit Anthus richardi. One (B Abi Jummaa); two same location, 18 January 2025 (E Cohen). 11th-12th records.