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A dai in Wadi Talea, Saudi Arabia (1 Viewer)

brackenb

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My good friend Rob Tovey and I spend a fantastic weekend in the hills of Southern Arabia and were rewarded with a couple of days of fantastic birding. Wadi Talea is a dry river valley about 10km from the city of Abha. Nestling in the mountains in the south easternwestern corner of the country at an altitude of about 2600 meters. We spent the entire day walking the valley seeing about 43 species including, Laughing Dove House Sparrow, Bruce's Green Pigeon, Dusky Turtle Dove, Paradise Flycatcher, Striolated bunting, Gambaga Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Palestine Sunbird, Hoopoe, Yemen Trush, Red Rumped Swallow, Arabian Babbler,
Arabian Wheatear,White Spectacled Bulbul, Cinnamon breasted Bunting, Tristrams's Starling, Little Rosk Trush, Abysinnian White Eye, Common Kestrel and Fan tailed Raven to mention but a few. The diversity of species was significantly different from our first visit to the area in February when the number of raptors was much higher and the passage birds had not arrived. For anyone interested Rob has an excellent blog at www.birdingforalark.blogspot.com. More on out visit to the Juniper forest later.
 
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