On 14/12/2009 Khaled Al-Ghanem has found three Great Crested Grebes, a rare bird in Kuwait, at the eastern part of Jahra Pool Reserve (a coastal area).
Great Crested Grebe 3, Eurasian Wigeon 63, Common Shelduck 3
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
Brian and me visited SAANR today. Tulha was totally dead and we managed to see only 4 Bar-taied Desert Larks and 1 Hoopoe Lark + 1 Long-legged Buzzard after long drive out there. However, as a last thing we checked one big wadi near entrance. I spotted a wheatear and without carefully looking it I just said Mourning Wheatear but luckily Brian really watched the bird and said that it is Hume’s Wheatear. Then I had to rush back to the car to get my camera. This is 8th record for Kuwait.
Hume’s Wheatear (Oenanthe alboniger)
Hume’s Wheatear
Hume’s Wheatear
Simon Price and myself found first Woodlark and later on Richard Saval spotted Chaffinch. We saw also several Bank Mynas, two White-throated Kingfishers and few Rose-ringed Parakeets.
Woodlark (Lullula arborea) Photograph by Pekka Fågel
Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) Photograph by Richard Saval
Two Ferruginous Ducks were seen today 2 December 2009 at Jahra Pool Reserve by Khaled Al-Ghanem, this is the 7th record for Kuwait.
Also during our trip to Yemen Mohd Khorshed has found the 7th record for Kuwait of an Oriental Turtle Dove on 30 November 2009 at Pivot Fields, but today I was told by AbdulMohsen Al-Suraye that he has seen the bird on 6th November 2009 at the same site but probably he was not aware of its identification.
Today at Jahra Pool Reserve there was the White-tailed Eagle (1st for Kuwait found on 25/11/2009), Tufted Ducks 4, Little Grebe 1, Ferruginous Duck 2 (seen by Khaled Al-Ghanem), Common Moorhen 50, Pallid Swift 50, Northern Pintail 2, Northern Shoveler 1.
Two Ferruginous Ducks Aythya nyroca by Khaled Al-Ghanem
Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis by Mohd Khorshed.
White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla by A. Al-Sirhan
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
Correction to aging of the bird. I received today a comment from Matti Lammin-Soila stating “This is juvenile, 1cy bird.(fresh plumage, all feathers of the same age, no moult etc.)”
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The bird was found by Ouda Al-Bathali on 25. Nov. I managed to photograph it today after returning from Yemen.
1. cy White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
White-tailed Eagle
