Vipin Sharma
Jan 6

Salalah, Oman visit.

Been to Salalah for two day for new year eve , this place is amazing . Not really been for birding but this place is full of wildlife.

Sharing here some images which were found without any major efforts.

Need help ID for pipit. Check image below please.

 

Arabian Partridge

 

Striolated Bunting, Emberiza striolata striolata

 

Tristram's starling , Onychognathus tristramii

 

Tristram's starling , Onychognathus tristramii male & female

 

Woodchat Shrike , Lanius senator

 

Indian spotted eagle , Clanga hastata

 

Indian spotted eagle , Clanga hastata

 

Arabian Partridge

 

Hooded Wheatear, Oenanthe monacha female

 

Hooded Wheatear, Oenanthe monacha male

 

Pipit

Need ID for above pipit.

 

Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus ssp.

 

Steppe Eagle, Aquila nipalensis orientalis

 

Eastern Imperial Eagle, Aquila heliaca

 

Eastern Imperial Eagle, Aquila heliaca

 

2 comments1 reply
Tommy Pedersen
Jan 6

Great images, Vipin Check your Bunting ID Also Shrike ID And Wheatear ID Ditto for Indian Spotted Eagle 😊

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Vipin Sharma
Jan 6Edited: Jan 6

Thanks Tommy for your kind comments , not actually bird man myself. Still learning though

I think bunting is Cinnamon-breasted bunting , Emberiza tahapisi

For shrike still confused between Brown Shrike, Lanius cristatus AND Red-tailed Shrike,Lanius phoenicuroides.

Wheatear is seems Eastern Mourning Wheatear, Oenanthe lugens.

 

For eagle , underneath white tail and white spots on chest forcing me to ID him Indian Spotted Eagle.

Any idea on Pipit ID??

Please correct me , If I'm wrong.

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Tommy Pedersen
Jan 6

Hi Vipin On my laptop now, was on the Wix app earlier.

Correct on the Bunting :-)

The Wheatear photos is of a female, then male Arabian Wheatear, very close relative of Mourning (some say a subspecies), so you are not far off.

Shrike looks good for adult male Turkestan Shrike = Red-tailed Shrike. These can be very similar to Brown Shrike. The commonest eagle down there is Greater Spotted Eagle, and as Indian Spotted Eagle is unknown in Arabia, I THINK it might be Greater Spotted. As for the Pipit, I'm intrigued. More for the choice of habitat, which indicate Long-billed, but it certainly does not look like the Long-billed Pipits we see in the UAE.

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