opisska
rabid twitcher
In a really random spot halfway between Abha and Riyadh we camped next to some scattered acacias in otherwise really empty desert and there were four birds - they were very active so the photos can be of different individuals. At first I thought Lesser Whitethroat, but they made consistent 2-syllable calls very unlike any Lesser Whitethroat I have ever met. I listened to Desert and Hume's recordings but they both do mostly longer calls - I simply have not found a recording that would match these calls.
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