UAE - Rare birds to be reported to the E.B.R.C.

Updated 20.02.2010

- Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus

- Mute Swan Cygnus olor

- Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii

- Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus

- Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

- Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris

- Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina

- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

- Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus

- Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes

- Jouanin’s Petrel Bulweria fallax

- Leach’s Storm Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa

- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus

- Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor

- Black Stork Ciconia nigra

- Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus

- Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia

- Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus

- Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus

- Masked Booby Sula dactylatra

- Red-footed Booby Sula sula

- Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

- Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus

- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

- Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae

- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus

- Saker Falcon Falco cherrug

- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus

- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus

- Pallas’s Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus

- Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus

- Lappet-faced Vulture Aegyptius tracheliotus

- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus cyaneus (from 2008: females and immatures only)

- Shikra Accipiter badius (report not required from the Dubai area)

- Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes

- Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis

- Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina

- Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos

- Baillon’s Crake Porzana pusilla

- Little Crake Porzana parva

- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata

- Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo

- Common Crane Grus grus

- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus

- Kittlitz’s Plover Charadrius pecuarius

- Eurasian Dotterel Charadrius morinellus

- Greater Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis

- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

- Great Snipe Gallinago media

- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes

- Red Knot Calidris canutus

- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis

- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta

- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

- Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria

- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum

- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

- Small Pratincole Glareola lactea

- White-eyed Gull Larus leucopthalmus

- Common Gull Larus canus

- Brown-headed Gull Larus brunnicephalus

- Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus

- Little Gull Larus minutus

- Sabine’s Gull Xema sabini

- Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii

- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

- Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata

- Black Tern Chlidonias niger

- Brown Noddy Anous stolidus (report not required from the East Coast)

- Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris

- Brown-/ South Polar Skua Stercorarius antarcticus/maccormicki

- Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus

- Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus

- Stock Dove Columba oenas

- Common Woodpigeon Columba palumbus

- Red Turtle Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica

- Pied Cuckoo Oxylophus jacobinus

- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius

- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus

- Sykes’s Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis

- Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus

- White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala

- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis

- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus

- Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus

- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach

- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus

- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus

- Northern Raven Corvus corax

- Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus

- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii

- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus

- Streak-throated Swallow Petrochelidon fluvicola

- Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra

- Dunn’s Lark Eremalauda dunni

- Temminck’s Lark Eremophila bilopha

- Cetti’s Warbler Cettia cetti

- River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis

- Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon

- Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola

- Blyth’s Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

- Booted Warbler Hippolais caligata

- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina

- Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler Phylloscopus orientalis

- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus

- Radde’s Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi

- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus

- Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus

- Hume's Whitethroat Sylvia althaea

- Wattled Starling Creatophora cineracea

- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster

- Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus

- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus

- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus

- Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

- Redwing Turdus iliacus

- Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus

- White-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia svecica cyanecula

- Caucasian Bluethroat Luscinia svecica magna

- Caspian Bluethroat Luscinia svecica lurestanica

- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus

- Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

- Eversmann’s Redstart Phoenicurus erythronota (report required for females only)

- Caspian Stonechat Saxicola torquatus variegatus

- Pied Stonechat Saxicola caprata

- Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna

- Finsch’s Wheatear Oenanthe finschii

- White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga

- Blackstart Cercomela melanura

- Eurasian Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla

- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelaena

- Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus

- White-headed Wagtail Motacilla flava leucocephala

- Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens japonicus

- Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis

- Common Linnet Carduelis cannabina

- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos

- White-capped Bunting Emberiza stewarti

- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica

- Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola

- Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus