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Hard to say without pictures, but I would suspect Pantala flavescens first and then Sympetrum fonscolumbii. Actually this is about the right time of year for swarms of Anax ephippiger to show up.

It's a syrphid fly commonly known as hoverfly, Eristalinus megacephalus. They are quite common in wadis and oases. It seems to have world wide distribution. This one is a male because the eyes are...

It's OK, Dave, and thanks for getting Barb to the airport. She got in safely to Toronto last evening.

Figured most of the people I knew on the forum would get the message by Facebook or the...

You can download a pdf copy of Butterflies of Oman which covers most UAE butterflies from the ENHG website.

Now if you can get 300 bird species, surely you can get the 26 dragonfly and damselfly species known from UAE! ;) Would be a few that would hard to get ...

You got them all. Your 3 - ?? is a female Crocothemis erythrea. It's worth grilling the Crocothemis if you are in Ruwais or west. Watch for any Crocothemis with white rings around the face and...

Thanks for the Orthetrum sabina photo and record. More dragonflies please!

Great picture, Ahmed! Thanks for posting and giving us another record.

The sand track route shown is no longer available. Palace and fence construction has cut it off. The directions really need to be updated. As Scott mentioned the north end, what I call the inlet...

Further to the recent discussion about harrier wing colours, there was an article in the NY Times a few days ago about the problem:
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With my melanoma progressing, I can't get out in the field anymore, so it seems a Pantala flavescens decided to come visit me. I stuck my head out the door for a breath of fresh air and noticed a...

The beeeater got a nice Trithemis annulata (Purple-blush darter).

Not a specialist but I have my camera equipment and other items we travel with listed separately on our household policy with Axa-Gulf. We have worldwide cover on those items.

Khalifa, if you're shooting RAW, send me a copy. I've got software that does a pretty amazing job with under or over exposed images.

The baby grebe got a male Ischnura senegalensis.

Nasty brutes, those crakes ...

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What turned out to be a very windy late afternoon did yield some dragonflies at the inlet end of the pools. We had quite a few female Selysiothemis nigra females roosting on the low bushes but only...

The Emirates Natural History Group site has a PDF version of Butterflies of Oman which is close. http://www.enhg.org/resources/ebooks/ebooks.htm

There are a number of articles on Lepitdoptera in...

Hey Huw, if you don't want to get too buffed, you're welcome to try out my tripod and Wimberley gimbal head some time. ;)

Mathilda, don't worry about it, if you post the pictures, they can usually be identified and eventually you'll become an expert on dragonflies too ;)

Thanks, Mathilda! Madbah is where I first saw this species. They can occur anywhere along the Hajars, usually in small numbers. There is another Paragomphus, P. genei that has a similar appearance...

You've got it right! Thanks for the report. Do you have a more exact locality?

Ahh ... if you were shooting Nikon and had your Dawntech di-GPS attached, you wouldn't need to be worried about looking at coordinates when your great lifer is showing, you'd have photographic...

Finally checked my references, and I'll stick with Ischnura evansi.