Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Bird listing in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is one of the least documented countries for birds in general but also on the Audubon Society's e-Bird web site.

Here are the top 10 listers in the country with the latest additions to their lists as per the e-Bird web site.


  1. Gary Bletsch - 232 (Short-toed eagle)
  2. Robert Tovey - 228 (Purple swamphen)
  3. Clive Temple - 224 (Black-eared wheatear)
  4. Olivier Langrand - 155 (Eurasian collared dove)
  5. Andrew Slater - 92 (Little bittern)
  6. Graham Langley - 81 (Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse)
  7. Chris Goulart - 66 (Eurasian jackdaw)
  8. Brad Macurda - 50 (Sand martin)
  9. Louis Warren - 45 (White-spectacled bulbul)
  10. Gary Santolo - 41 (African silverbill)

As you can see with only three birders on over 200 species there is plenty of scope for improvement. So if you are ever in Saudi, please contribute to the local birding knowledge by adding your sightings to e-Bird.
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  1. Unknown6 July 2013 at 18:02

    Clive, you are persuading me to update my list. It's at 297 now (as e-bird counts). Brian James out of Jeddah has 320 but doesnt post to ebird and Mansur Al Fahad is very close to my total.

    Rob T

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