Latest News & Rarities Reported from the Greater Western Palearctic Region

We are including bird news from areas outside of the main WP region - Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen etc

12th October   3rd Black Heron (Egretta ardesiaca) for Oman at Khawr Mughsayl.

6th October   6th Masked Wagtail (Motacilla alba personata) for Bahrain

5th October   6th Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) for Oman in Salalah.

28th July - 6th August  A joint Zoothera Birding & Oman Birding team have been seawatching from Masirah Island to the Dhofar coast seeing large numbers of Wilson's Storm-Petrels, Flesh-footed Shearwaters, Jouanin's Petrels (highest count 101), Swinhoe's & poss Matsudaira's Storm-Petrels and a record count of 600+ Persian Shearwaters during one pelagic from Mirbat.

 4th August  2 Black-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta tropica) reported by Nick Bray & Zoothera Birding/Oman Birding group from Mirbat. This would constitute the 5th & 6th records for Oman if accepted by the Oman Birds Rarities Committee (OBRC)

©Copyright. All rights reserved.

We need your consent to load the translations

We use a third-party service to translate the website content that may collect data about your activity. Please review the details in the privacy policy and accept the service to view the translations.