Birdlist 2011
Birds seen in Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai & Germany:
| Accipitriformes |
| Accipitridae |
| Black Kite (Kuwait) |
| Pallid Harrier (Kuwait) |
| Booted Eagle (dark form) (Kuwait) |
| Eastern Imperial Eagle (Kuwait) |
| Steppe Buzzard (Kuwait) |
| Montagu’s Harrier (male & female) (Kuwait) |
| Red Kite, Rotmilan, Milvus milvus (Germany) |
| Pandionidae |
| Osprey (Bahrain) |
| Apodiformes |
| Apodidae |
| Pallid Swift (Kuwait) |
| Common Swift (Kuwait) |
| Charadriiformes |
| Charadriidae |
| Black-bellied Plover (Grey) (Bahrain) |
| Lesser Sand-Plover (Bahrain) |
| Greater Sand-Plover (Bahrain) |
| Snowy Plover (Kentish) (Bahrain) |
| Ringed Plover (Kuwait) |
| Little Ringed Plover (Kuwait) |
| Red-wattled Plover (Dubai) |
| Kentish Plover (Kuwait) |
| Grey Plover (Kuwait) |
| Glareolidae |
| Collared Pratincole (Kuwait) |
| Black-winged Pratincole (Kuwait) |
| Cream coloured Coursor |
| Haematopodidae |
| Eurasian Oystercatcher (Kuwait) |
| Recurvirostridae |
| Black-winged Stilt (Kuwait) |
| Scolopacidae |
| Common Greenshank (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Common Redshank (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Eurasian Curlew (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Curlew Sandpiper (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Dunlin (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Common Sandpiper (Kuwait) |
| Ruff (Kuwait) |
| Whimbrel (Kuwait) |
| Green Sandpiper (Kuwait) |
| Wood Sandpiper (Kuwait) |
| Bar-tailed Godwit (Kuwait) |
| Ruddy Turnstone (Kuwait) |
| Laridae |
| Slender-billed Gull (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Black-headed Gull (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Caspian Gull (Bahrain &Kuwait) |
| -> Sub. Steppe Gull (Kuwait) |
| Heuglin’s Gull (Lesser Black-backed Gull) (Kuwait) |
| Pallas’s Gull (Great Black-headed Gull) (Kuwait) |
| Sternidae |
| Lesser Crested Tern (Bahrain) |
| Caspian Tern (Kuwait) |
| SandwichTern (Kuwait) |
| Whiskered Tern (Kuwait) |
| Gull-billed Tern (Kuwait) |
| Common Tern (Kuwait) |
| Ciconiiformes |
| Ardeidae |
| Grey Heron (Bahrain&Kuwait&Germany) |
| Western Reef-Heron (White & dark Morph) (Bahrain &Kuwait) |
| Squacco Heron (Kuwait) |
| Little Egret (Kuwait) |
| Cattle Egret (Dubai&Kuwait) |
| Ciconiidae |
| White Stork (Kuwait) |
| Columbiformes |
| Columbidae |
| Laughing dove (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Namaqua Dove (Kuwait) |
| Common wood pigeon, Ringeltaube, Columba palumbus (Germany) |
| Coraciiformes |
| Alcedinidae |
| White-throated Kingfisher (Kuwait) |
| Common Kingfisher, Eisvogel, Alcedo atthis (Germany) |
| Meropidae |
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Kuwait) |
| European Bee-Eater (Kuwait) |
| Upupidae |
| Eurasian Hoopoe (Kuwait) |
| Gruiformes |
| Rallidae |
| Spotted Crake (Kuwait) |
| Falconiformes |
| Falconidae |
| Lesser Kestrel (Kuwait) |
| Common Kestrel (Kuwait &Germany) |
Passeriformes |
| Alaudidae |
| Crested Lark (Bahrain) |
| Corvidae |
| House Crow (Kuwait&Dubai– both times most likely Indian) |
| Magpie (Black-billed Magpie), Elster, Pica pica (Germany) |
| Emberizidae |
| Ortolan Bunting (Kuwait) |
| Estrildidae |
| Indian Silverbill (Dubai) |
| Hirundinidae |
| Barn Swallow (Kuwait&Germany) |
| Sand Martin (Kuwait) |
| House Martin (Kuwait) |
| Crag Martin (Kuwait) |
| Lanidae |
| Isabelline Shrike (Kuwait) |
| -> &TurkestanShrike (Kuwait) |
| -> & Daurian Shrike (Kuwait) |
| Woodchat Shrike (Kuwait) |
| Masked Shrike (Kuwait) |
| Red-backed Shrike |
| Lesser Grey Shrike (Kuwait) |
| Motacillidae |
| Grey Wagtail (Kuwait) |
| White wagtail (Bahrain&Kuwait&Germany) |
| Yellow Wagtail (feldegg & flava & flavissima & dombrowskii & lutea & ema ) (Kuwait) |
| Water Pipit (Kuwait) |
| -> Subsp. Coutellii (Kuwait) |
| Red-throated Pipit (Kuwait) |
| Tawny Pipit (Kuwait) |
| Tree Pipit (Kuwait) |
| Muscicapidae |
| Spotted Flycatcher (Kuwait) |
| Semicollared Flycatcher (female Kuwait) |
| Nectariniidae |
| Purple Sunbird (Dubai) |
| Oriolidae |
| Golden Oriole (Eurasian) (Kuwait) |
| Passeridae |
| House sparrow (Bahrain&Kuwait&Germany) |
| Pale Rock Sparrow (Pale Rockfinch) (Kuwait) |
| Pycnonotidae |
| Red-vented Bulbul (Bahrain & Dubai) |
| White-eared Bulbul (Kuwait) |
| Sturnidae |
| Common Myna (Kuwait) |
| Common (European) Starling (Kuwait&Germany) |
| Sylviidae |
| Common Chiffchaff (Kuwait /Germany) |
| WillowWarbler (Kuwait) |
| Lesser Whitethroat (Kuwait) |
| Desert Warbler (Asian) (Kuwait) |
| Great Reed Warbler (Kuwait) |
| BasraReed Warbler (Kuwait) |
| Blackcap (Juv or fem & adult male) (Kuwait) |
| Whitethroat, subsp. Icterops (Kuwait) |
| Barred Warbler (Kuwait) |
| Graceful Prinia (Kuwait) |
| Turdidae |
| Isabelline Wheatear (Kuwait) |
| Blue Rock Thrush (Kuwait) |
| Stonechat (Kuwaitmale & female) |
| Rock Thrush (Rufous-tailed) (Kuwait) |
| Pied Wheatear (Kuwait) |
| -> & var. ‘vittata’ |
| Black-eared Wheatear (Kuwait) |
| -> and 1 Pale-throated Morph of BEW Melanoleuca (Kuwait male & female) |
| Northern Wheatear (Kuwait) |
| Mourning Wheatear (Kuwait) |
| Common Redstart - Subsp. samamisicus (Kuwait) |
| Rufous Bush-Robin (Kuwait) |
| Black Redstart (Kuwait&Germany) |
| White-throated Robin (male & 1st wt) (Kuwait) |
| Whinchat (male) (Kuwait) |
| Blackbird (Common), Amsel, Turdus merula (Germany) |
| European Robin, Rotkehlchen, Erithacus rubecula (Germany) |
| Paridae |
| Great Tit, Kohlmeise, Parus major (Germany) |
| Cinclidae |
| Dipper (White-throated Dipper), Wasseramsel, Cinclus cinclus (Germany |
| Sittidae |
| Nuthatch, Kleiber, Sitta Europaea (Germany) |
| Corvidae |
| European Jay, Eichelhäher, Garrulus glandarius (Germany) |
| Carrion Crow, Rabenkrähe (Aaskrähe), Corvus corone (Germany) |
| Fringillidae |
| Chaffinch, Buchfink, Fringilla coelebs (Germany) |
| Pelicaniformes |
| Phalacrocoracidae |
| (Great) Cormorant (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| -> & maybe Subsp. sinensis (Kuwait) |
| Piciformes |
| Picidae |
| Wryneck (Kuwait) |
| Black Woodpecker, Schwarzspecht, Dryocopus martius (Germany) |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker, Buntspecht, Dendrocopus major (Germany) |
| Phoenicopteriformes |
| Phoenicopteridae |
| Greater Flamingo (Bahrain&Kuwait) |
| Psittaciformes |
| Psittacidae |
| Rose ringed Parakeet (Kuwait&Dubai) |
| Anseriformes |
| Anatidae |
| Mallard, Stockente, Anas platyrhynchos (Germany) |
| Piciformes |
| Picidae |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker, Buntspecht, Dendrocopus major (Germany) |
| Fringillidae |
| Chaffinch, Buchfink, Fringilla coelebs (Germany) |
| Total: 137 |
NicoleB
Amateur Photographer, Globehopper & nature Lover
