24/11/2024
For the avid Western Palearctic lister, Kuwait is a mouth-watering, list building mega country, offering numerous special birds unique to this country or are extremely hard to find elsewhere. It's a relatively small country, so we stay in one hotel for the 8 nights, making day trips to all the best birding hotspots. High on our want list will be species such as Socotra Cormorant, Crab Plover, Red-wattled Lapwing, White-tailed Lapwing, Tibetan Sandplover, White-cheeked & Great Crested Terns, Oriental Honey Buzzard, Basra Reed Warbler, Asian Desert Warbler, White-eared Bulbul, Bank Myna, Afghan Babbler, Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark, Indian Silverbill and Ruppell's Weaver. As it's peak migration time the list of possibilities is seemingly endless and we have chances of numerous shorebirds inc Black-winged Pratincole, Caspian Plover, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Pied Wheatear, Isabelline & Masked Shrike, White-throated Robin, Siberian Stonechat, Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin, Semicollared Flycatcher, Marsh, Menetries's, Eastern Olivaceous & Upcher's Warblers, Hume's Whitethroat, Eastern Cinereous Bunting, Pale Rockfinch, and so much more.
So let's go birding WP style!
Full tour info here: https://www.zootherabirding.com/kuwait-a-western-palearctic-hotspot-tour