Northern Lapwing – Dhahran Hills Football Fields

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Saudi Arabia Recommended Bird Books

Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines: A Photographic Guide – Hadoram Shirahai & Lars Svensson (2018)
Gulls of the World: A Photographic Guide – Klaus Malling Olsen (Mar 2018)
Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East – Dick Forsman (Feb 2016)
Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm Identification Guides) – Klaus Malling Olsen & Hans Larsson (Sep 2004)
Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Arabia – Michael C. Jennings (Sep 2010)
Birds of the Middle East – Richard Porter & Simon Aspinall (Aug 2010 – Helm Field Guides)
Collins Bird Guide – Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom & Peter J. Grant (Mar 2010)
The Raptors of Europe and the Middle East: A Handbook to Field Identification – Dick Forsman (Oct 2007)
Birds of Europe with North Africa & the Middle East – Lars Jonsson (Aug 2005)
The Handbook of Bird Identification: For Europe and the Western Palearctic – Mark Beaman, Steve Madge, Hillary Burn & Dan Zetterstrom (Nov 1998 – Helm Identification Guides)
The Birds of Israel – Hadoram Shirahai (Jun 1996)
Birds of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia – G. Bundy, RJ. Connor & C. Harrison (Aug 1989)

About The Photographs

I am an amateur photographer who goes birdwatching and takes the occasional picture with birdwatching being my primary interest. I do birdwatch in an area that has good light for photogrpahy and manage to take quite a few photographs each day.

All photos on this blog are copyright and may not be copied or reproduced without my permission. Please ask if you would like to use any of my photographs for any reason.

My camera gear:
Canon EOS 1DX mkII

Canon EOS 5D mkIII
Canon 600 mm f/4 IS II USM

Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II USM
Canon 100 mm f/2.8 Macro IS USM
Canon 28-70 mm f/2.8 IS II USM
EF-14x III Extender

IUCN Red List Species - Saudi Arabia

CRITICAL Sociable Lapwing Ruppell’s Vulture ENDAGERED White-headed Duck Northern Bald Ibis Great Knot Egyptian Vulture Bateleur Lappet-faced Vulture Steppe Eagle Saker Falcon Asir Magpie Basra Reed Warbler Yellow-breasted Bunting VULNERABLE Pochard European Turtle Dove Great Bustard Asian Houbara Socotra Cormorant Grey Plover Broad-billed Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Black-legged Kittiwake Greater Spotted Eagle Tawny Eagle Eastern Imperial Eagle Sooty Falcon Syrian Serin Rustic Bunting NEAR THREATENED Marbled Duck Ferruginous Duck Sooty Shearwater Jouanin’s Petrel Arabain Bustard Eurasian Oystercatcher Northern Lapwing Eurasian Curlew Bar-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Dunlin Great Snipe Black-winged Pratincole Bearded Vulture Cinereous Vulture Pallid Harrier Alexandrine Parakeet Arabian Woodpecker Woodchat Shrike Yemen Warbler Redwing Yemen Thrush Arabian Grosbeak Meadow Pipit Cinereous Bunting