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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1377399" data-attributes="member: 12449">Collins certainly is good enough, and in some respects the best, but there is also a fairly new Birds of the Middle East by Porter, Christensen, etc, which obviously deals in more detail with the birds of the area.In the Dreamland area, and certainly further north from there, you might/should see Socotra Cormorant, which isn't in Collins, apart from that, I think Collins covers all that you are likely to see in the Dubai area (I'll check later when I have the books with me).Socotra Cormorant for you <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Check online id somewhere, but basically Shag-like bill on Cormorant-like bird. No white skin around bill as in Cormorant (which also occur around Dubai)</blockquote>