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8/2/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

1 Masked Shrike

 

19/2/2006 at Fintas

1 Red-rumped Swallow

 

20/2/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

1 Purple Heron

 

22/2/2006 at Messila

1 Stone Curlew

 

5/3/2006 at Jahra East Outfall, JEO

1 Black-tailed Godwit

3 White-tailed Lapwings

2 Garganeys

 

6/3/2006 at JEO

9 Squacco Herons

1 Citrine Wagtail

1 Garganey

 

11/3/2006 at JEO

2 Citrine Wagtails

1 Red-rumped Swallow

1 Great White Pelican

1 Glossy Ibis

 

15/3/2006 at JEO

15 Eurasian Oystercatchers

120+ Bar-tailed Godwits

 

18/3/2006 at JEO

25+ Northern Shovlers

3+ Northern Pintails

6+ Eurasian Wigeons

2 Little-ringed Plovers

 

21/3/2006 at JEO

8 Glossy Ibis

8 Little-ringed Plovers

 

25/3/2006 at JEO

1 Black-tailed Godwit

1 Spotted Crake

1 White-tailed Lapwing

5+ Little-ringed Plovers

2 Red-necked Phalarope

7 Common Snipes

 

26/3/2006 at Ritqa

11 Caspian Plovers

 

29/3/2006

1 Grey Wgtail

 

1/4/2006 at JEO

1 Osprey

1 Jack Snipe

 

2/4/2006 at Salmi

4 Bar-tailed Desert Larks with 2 fledglings.

2 Trumpeter Finches.

 

9/4/2006 at JEO

1 Red-wattled Lapwing

 

12/4/2006 at Tulha

1 Pale Rockfinch

1 White-throated Robin

2 Blackcap

 

23/4/2006 at Tulha

1 Chestnut-shouldered Sparrow

1 Pale Rockfinch

1 European Reed Warbler

 

24/4/2006 at Salmi

1 Temmink's Lark

 

29/4/2006 at SAANR

1 Corn Crake

5 Black-winged Pratincole

1 Black Scrub Robin

 

6/5/2006 at Tulha

1 European Reed Warbler

1 Corn Crake

 

7/5/2006 at Tulha

1 European Reed Warbler

1 Spotted Crake

1 Grey Hypocolius

1 Corn Bunting

1 Eastern Orphean Warbler

1 Great Reed Warbler

1 European Reed Warbler

2 Barred Warblers

 

11/5/2006 at Al-Abraq

6 Lesser Kestrels

1 European Nightjar

1 Desert Lark

 

15/5/2006 at JEO

2 Spoonbills

 

17/5/2006 at JEO

1 Red-necked Phalarope

2 Little Terns

2 White-winged Terns

1 Collared Pratincole

1 Black-winged Pratincole

2 Spoonbills

 

18/5/2006 at Abrag

10+ Black-crowned Sparrow Lark with juveniles

1 Pale Rockfinch

2 Cream-coloured Courser

 

20/5/2006 at Tulha

5 Eastern Olivaceous Warblers

3 Barred Warblers

1 Garden Warbler

1 Masked Shrike

1 + Black-crowned Sparrow Lark

1 Common Nightingale

 

21/5/2006 at Tulha

4 Pale Rockfinch

2 Corn Bunting

 

28/5/2006 at JEO

24 Crab Plovers

4 Red-necked Phalarope

2 Spoonbills

4 Whiskered Terns (first in May)

1 Stone Curlew

1 Lesser Grey Shrike

29/5/2006 at Tulha, temperature. was 45 deg.

2 Whinchats

1 Lesser Kestrel (male)

1 Golden Oriole

1 Black Redstart female

1 Masked Shrike

3 Red-backed Shrikes

4 E. Olivaceous Warblers

2 E. Reed Warbler

1 Rufous Bush Rbin

 

31/5/2006 at JEO

1 Sandwich Tern

2 Richard's Pipit

20+ Curlew Sandpiper

16 Dunlins

 

1/6/2006 at JEO

6 Little Bitterns

1 Whinchat

5 Little Stints

2 White-winged Tern

1 Upcher's Warbler

1 Richard's Pipit

1 Squacco Heron

 

3/6/2006 at SAANR

1 Shikra (seen the next day as well)

1 Isabelline Wheatear (first for June) another one in July.

1 Black Redstart female.

1 Garden Warbler

1 European Reed Warbler

1 Eurasian Golden Oriole

1 Sedge Warbler

1 Willow Warbler

1 Song Thrush

1 Spanish Sparrow

 

3/6/2006 at JEO

1 Little-ringed Plover

16+ Little Stints

5+ Moorhens

3 Little Bittern

3 Curlew Sandpiper

 

4/6/2006 at South Doha Nature Reserve

1 Black Tern flying over the pools (2nd record for Kuwait)

1 Little Bitterns

3 agitated Black-winged Stilts probably breeding.

 

 4/6/2006 at Tulha

2 Eurasian Golden Oriole females

1 Shikra same bird of yesterday.

1 Long-legged Buzzard

2 European reed Warblers

2 Sedge Warblers

1 Whitethroat

1 Willow Warbler

1 E. Olivaceous Warblers

1 Garden Warbler

 

5/6/2006 at JEO

1 Black-crowned Sparrow Lark

2 Cattle Egrets

5+ Curlew Sandpiper

5+ Little Stints

4+ Black-winged Stilts

2 Cream-coloured Coursers

1 Little-ringed Plovers

7 Little Bitterns probably came to breed and have been seen on nearly every visit to JEO. Last time one was seen on 9th July after which a fire broke in JEO on 11th July and half of reeds had caught fire. Smoke deterred bird from the reeds for a week. Probably the fire was started by the Camel herders to make way for cutting reeds for their herds.

 

7/6/2006 at Chest Hospital (at KISR side)

17 Greater Flamingos

2 White-winged Tern

92 Slender-billed Gulls

6 Gull-billed Terns

 

7/6/2006 at JEO

5 Black-winged Stilts

8 Little Stints

1 Cattle Egret

2 Little Bitterns

1 White-tailed Lapwing (first time in June)

 

12/6/2006 at JEO

28+ White-winged Tern

3 Red-necked Phalarope

1 White–tailed Lapwing

1 Cattle Egret

2 Collared Pratincole

18 Grey Plovers

23+ Caspian Terns

24+ Sandwich Terns

1 Bar-tailed Godwit (first in June)

 

13/6/2006 at Rain Pool

1 Dunn's Lark

4 Hoopoe Larks

 

13/6/2006 at Tulha

44+ Crested Larks mostly under trees

2 Sedge Warblers

1 Whitethroat

2 Upcher's Warbler (first in June)

1 Garden warbler

1 Isabelline Wheatear

1 Black-crowned Sparrow Lark juv.

1 E. Reed Warbler

1 E. Bee-eater

 

13/6/2006 at JEO

1 Pied Wheatear (first time in June, photographed)

1 Yellow Wagtail (lutea)

4 Collared Pratincole

2 Sand Martins

1 Great Cormorant

1 Greenshank (first for June)

24+ Oystercatcher (first in June)

1 Black-winged Pratincole (first for June) photographed and saw under-wing twice.

1 Bluethroat (first for June)

1 Whinchat

3 Cattle Egrets

1 Cream-coloured Courser

69+ White-winged Terns

44+ Grey Plovers

2 Lesser Kestrels

1 Sanderling

 

14/6/2006 at Chest Hospital

24 Little Terns

1 Greenshank

1 Terek Sandpiper

10 Curlew Sandpiper

3 White-winged Terns

 

14/6/2006 at JEO

2 Lesser Kestrels males

1 Pied Wheatear

3 Cattle Egrets

1 White Wagtail (first for June)

2 Ruffs

1 Black-winged Pratincole

1 Collared Pratincole

2 E. Bee-eaters

1 Yellow Wagtail

5 Cream-coloured Courser

3 Dunlins

63 Grey Plovers

2 Little Bitterns

1 Red-backed Shrike male

5 Little Stints

1 Sanderling

3 Barn Swallows

2 Red-necked Phalarope

2 Terek Sandpiper

36 Oystercatchers

1 Common Sandpiper

 

15/6/2006 at JEO

1 Great Cormorant

1 Pied Wheatear

3 Cattle Egret

2 Lesser Kestrel

73 White-winged Terns

1 White Wagtail

20+ Barn Swallows

1 Black-winged Pratincole

2 Collared Pratincole

1 Common Teal (first for June)

2 Little Bitterns

1 Squacco Heron

42 Oystercatchers

 

17/6/2006 at Tulha

1 Upcher's Warbler

1 Lesser Kestrel

1 Pale Rock Sparrow

1 Black-crowned Sparrow Lark

1 E. Reed Warbler

1 Sedge Warbler

1 E. Olivaceous Warbler

1 Isabelline Wheatear

1 Red-backed Shrike female

1 Black Redstart female

1 Whitethroat

 

18/6/2006 at Al-Abrag

1 Short-toed Eagle juv. (first for June) probably hatched in Saudi Arabia.

 

20/6/2006 at JEO

3 Cream-coloured Coursers

2 Cattle Egrets

 

20/6/2006 at Tulha

1 Golden Oriole first summer/adult female

1 Barred Warbler (first for June)

1 Spotted Flycatcher

4 Kestrels

1 Lesser Kestrel

1 Upcher's Warbler

1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

1 Masked Shrike (first for June)

1 Whitethroat

1 Black-headed Bunting (male showed black head)

1 Woodchat Shrike (first in June)

1 Spanish Sparrow

 

22/6/2006 at JEO

10+ Greater Sand Plover

3 Black-headed Gulls

1 Wood Sandpiper

1 Whiskered Tern

3+ Oystercatcher

49+ White-winged Terns

20+ Black-winged Stilts

 

23/6/2006 at JEO

27 Black-winged Stilts

1 Kestrel

1 Little Bittern

3 Lesser Sand Plover

10+ Greater Sand Plover

 

3/7/2006

12+ Moorhen

4 Cattle Egrets (first in July)

5 Common Sandpiper

6+ Barn Swallows

3 Green Sandpiper

4+ Sand Martins

3 Wood Sandpiper

1 White-winged Tern

 

4/7/2006 at Tulha

1 Eastern Olivaceous Warblers

1 Isabelline Wheatear (pale bird with dark lores) photographed.

1 Long-legged Buzzard

1 Garden Warbler (first for July)

1 Upcher's Warbler

 

4/7/2006 at JEO

2 Great Cormorant

1 Kestrel

3 Green Sandpiper

5 Common Sandpiper

1 Little Bittern

40+ Grey Herons (first third of July)

 

8/7/2006 at JEO

4 Little Bitterns

2 Little-ringed Plovers

1 Juv. Slender-billed Gull begging for food from an adult

1 Great Cormorant

1 Wood Sandpiper

10+ Greater Sand Plovers

37+ Curlews

3 Greater Flamingo (first of July record)

4+ Lesser Sand plovers

1 Dunlin (first for July)

4+ Green Sandpiper

3+ Common Sandpiper

6+ Sand Martins

8 Yellow Wagtails ( 3 feldegg, 5 flava)

30+ Greater Sand Plover

50+ Redshanks

4 Terek Sandpipers

1 Whiskered Tern (first in July)

1 Black-winged Tern

 

8/7/2006 at Chest Hospital

6 Greater Flamingos

1 Juv. Slender-billed Gull begging for food from an adult

1 Black-tailed Godwit

34+ Saunders's Terns (some appeared Little)

1 Sandwich Tern

5 birds appeared as Fan-tailed Ravens but can not confirm, were flying from KISR towards the Hospitals crossing the 85th Road.

 

9/7/2006 at JEO

2 White-breasted Kingfishers flying over the reeds.

8 Yellow Wagtails ( 5 feldegg, 3 flava)

1 Cattle Egret

1 Common Quail

1 Little Bittern

18 Grey Herons

15 Common Sandpipers

1 Marsh Sandpiper

2 Sand Martins

1 Barn Swallow

1 Little-ringed Plover

64 Oystercatchers

42+ Curlews

 

10/7/2006

1 Garganey adult female or juvenile (photographed)

1 Common Sandpiper

1 Green Sandpiper

5+ Sand Martins

1 Cattle Egret

1 Black-tailed Godwit

1 Marsh Sandpiper

1 Redshank

10+ Yellow Wagtails (flava/feldegg)

3 Cream-coloured Coursers

3+ Barn Swallows

 

10/7/2006 at Chest Hospital

56 Greater Flamingos

250 Slender-billed Gulls

4 Greenshanks

17+ Terek Sandpipers

87 Saunders/Little Terns

9 Gull-billed Terns

14+ Curlew Sandpipers

10 Cream-coloured Coursers

1 House Crow (at KISR side)

 

11/7/2006 at JEO

1 Black-tailed Godwit

3 Whiskered Terns

1 Kestrel

1 Upcher's Warbler

1 Green Sandpiper

2 White-winged Terns

 

11/7/2006 at Chest Hospital

176 Greater Flamingos with juveniles

 

11/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Reserve

1 Isabelline shrike

2 Namaqua Dove

 

11/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

9 Greater Crested Terns

3 Lesser Crested Terns

3 Bar-tailed Godwit (first for July)

3 Greenshanks

 

12/7/2006 at Tulha

1 Upcher's Warbler

 

12/7/2006 at JEO

A fire has started yesterday afternoon after I left (told by a camel herder from Rajestan) half the (reeds) phragmites have been destroyed, I was also that the fire was started from the middle and spread out. The birds were away from the reeds into the sea shore because of intensive smoke rising from the middle.

1 Garganey

49 Black-winged Stilts

2 Great Cormorants

1 Black-headed Gull

59 Eurasian Oystercatchers

40 Grey Plovers

43 Caspian Terns

2 Dunlins (2nd third of July)

60+ Eurasian Curlews

2 Curlew Sandpipers

9 Grey Herons

 

13/7/2006 at JEO

5 Barn Swallows

5 Sand Martins

1 Pomarine Skua flying over sea and attacking Gulls many times without success. (first for July, Photographed)

2 Squacco Herons

6 Cream-coloured Coursers

30 Black-winged Stilts

7 Greater Flamingos

 

13/7/2006 at Jahra Pool

1 Squacco Heron

 

13/7/2006 at Chest Hospital

145 Greater Flamingos with juveniles

1 Ruff

 

14/7/2006 at JEO

5 Whimbrels

200+ Slender-billed Gulls

2 Red-shanks

6 G. Flamingos

2 G. Cormorants

4 Little Stints (first for July)

2 White-winged Terns

10 Common Sandpipers

1 Lesser Sand Plover

1 Cattle Egret

4 Ruffs

1 Terek Sandpiper

5 Curlew Sandpiper

100+ E. Curlew

1 Marsh Sandpiper

25 Black-winged Stilts

3 Dunlins

4 Cream-coloured Coursers

3 Common Ringed Plovers (first for July)

3 Green Sandpipers

1 Wood Sandpiper

3 Sand Martins

3 Barn Swallows

11 Grey Plovers

1 Ruddy Turnstone (first for July)

15 Caspian Terns

41 Eurasian Oystercatcher

 

14/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

1 Greater Sand Plover

5 Redshank

6 Gull-billed Terns

7 Saunders's/Little Terns

 

15/7/2006 at Sewer Plant Reeds

10+ Black-crowned Sparrow Larks

1 Little-ringed Plover

 

15/7/2006 at Chest Haspital

97 Greater Flamingos

10 Gull-billed Terns

5 Bar-tailed Godwits

2 Redshanks

 

15/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Reserve

1 Namaqua Dove male

1 Sand martin

 

15/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

1 European Roller

10 Caspian Terns

 

15/7/2006 at JEO

1 Greater Sand Plover

1 Black-tailed Godwit

1 Common Greenshank

1 Little-ringed Plover

1 Common Sand Plover

1 Green Sandpiper

3 Little Stints

3 Ruffs

36 Black-winged Stilts

1 Marsh Sandpiper

 

17/7/2006 at JEO 5:30 am

2 Great Cormorants

1 Pomarine Skua

3 Yellow Wagtail (flava)

1 Greater Sand Plover

4 Green Sandpipers

2 Common Sandpiper

20+ Sand Martins

 

17/7/2006 at Chest Hospital

35 Greater Flamingos

26 Saunders's/ Little Terns

 

18/7/2006 at Tulha 7:55 am

2 Upcher's Warblers

2 Pale Rockfinch

1 European Roller

2 Barn Swallow

2 Garden Warblers

2 Black-headed Bunting

1 Kestrel male

1 Red-headed Bunting

1 Namaqua Dove

 

21/7/2006 at JEO 8:10 am

7 Little Stints

1 Isabelline Wheatear

1 Wood Sandpiper

1 Greater Sand Plover

3 Little-ringed Plover

4 Ruffs

10 Black-winged Stilts

12 Oystercatchers

4 Redshanks

2 Greater Flamingos

106 Eurasian Curlews

2 Mash Sandpiper

 

21/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

1 Terek Sandpiper

6 Bar-tailed Godwit

2 Black-headed Gulls

4 Curlew Sandpiper

1 Whimbrel

 

24/7/2006 at JEO

5 Common Sandpipers

10 Bar-tailed Godwits

4 Little-ringed Plovers

4 Isabelline Wheatears

1 Broad-billed Sandpiper (first for July)

33 Little Stints

10+ Grey Plovers

2 Wood Sandpipers

2 Great Cormorants

20+ Sand Martins

 

24/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

41 Greater Flamingos

 

24/7/2006 at Chest Hospital

8 Greater Flamingos

 

25/7/2006 at JEO

110 Little Stints

1 Glossy Ibis (first for July)

1 Sanderling (first for July)

20 Curlew Sandpiper

2 Isabelline Wheatears

8 Dunlins (3rd 3rd of July)

1 European Bee-eater

150+ Eurasian Curlews

 

26/7/2006 at West Doha Reserve

6 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

 

26/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

41 Greater Flamingos

1 European Roller juv.

2 Ruddy Turnstone

1 Whiskered Terns

 

27/7/2006 at JEO

2 Ruddy Turnstone

1 Greater Sand Plover

1 Greenshank

2 Great Cormorants

 

28/7/2006 at Sulaibikhat Bay

1 European Roller juvenile

1 Whiskered Tern

2 Ruddy Turnstone

 

29/7/2006 at JEO

1 Isabelline Wheatear

40+ Black-winged Stilts

1 Greenshank

30+ Ruffs

2 Little-ringed Plovers

1 Grey Plover