On 01/07/2009 Humoud Al-Shayji has seen about 6 Skuas at Jahra coast, they included a Long-tailed Skua, and a Pomarine Skua.

Humoud Al-Shayji is a bird photographer who has recently joined our birding forum at http://oskonline.org/forum  he has a photographic Blog at Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/showaiji/

This Long-tailed Skua would be the second record for Kuwait if accepted by KORC,  the first of which was on 27 May 1994 at Doha Point.

Long-tailed Skua by Humound Al-Shayji

Pomarine Skua.

Rashed Al-Hajji has photographed a bird on 27/06/2009 that is probably an Arctic Tern, the third record for Kuwait if accepted by KORC

Arctic Tern b Rashed Al-Hajji

Rashed had also photographed a bird that could well be an Artcic Tern on 29 April 2009, his photograph is shown below.