By Dubai Safari Conservation Team: Dr. Reza Khan, Dr. Shamshad Alam, Syed Ismail and Mohammed Shafwan
KHOR AL BAIDA 7am to 10am
Gps - N 25o31.933 and E 055o34.242’ East side, towards the main road, BANK WITH MANGROVE and
UAQ SIDE N25o35.726’ E055o34.601’
Mallard - 9
Flamingo - 304
Western Reef Heron - 22
Grey heron – 21
Great Egret- 4
Intermediate or Median Egret- 1, id confirmation needed
Socotra Cormorant - 2
Greater Cormorant - 8
Crab Plover – 10
Oystercatcher – 10
Bar-tailed Godwit- 4
Black-tailed Godwit- 30+
Whimbrel- 2
Eurasian Curlew -6
Curlew sandpiper - 4
Common Redshank- 41
Common Greenshak-2
Kentish Plover-37
Common Ringed plover – 7
Eurasian Spoonbill-1
Black headed Ibis (too far to confirm id) - 1
Little stint - 13
Greater Sandplover - 6
Green Sandpipers - 6
Pacific Golden - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
Terek Sandpiper -2
Unidentified Waders – 450 (mostly stints, dunlins, smallish plovers, turnstone, )
Oystercatcher - 20
Black-headed gull -17
Slender-billed Gull- 9
Heuglin’s Gull - 3
Gull-billed Tern-5
Caspian Tern – 6
Swift Tern ?- 2
Common Tern-2
Common myna -11
Crested Lark -8
Dourian Shrike – 1
Graceful Prinia- 3
Hose Crow - 100+
Common myna -11
Rose--ringed Parakeet - 6
Arabian Bee-eater – 1
Laughing Dove- many
Eurasian Collared Dove- many
White-eared Bulbul- 12
Red-vented Bulbul- 2
House Sparrow- many
This is possibly the Intermediate Egret due to gapeline not going beyond the back margin of the eye.
Great Egret with gapeline going far behind the eye margin
Yes. I will do it
Reza, these two sites are very far from each other. The first is Khor al-Beida https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1077390
The last is Umm al-Qaiwain Breakwater https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1077086 Any chance of breaking the two lists up, and post them?
Great images, Reza.
Intermediate Egret = Western Reef Egret, Reza. Note bill colour and yellow on feet, extending up.