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Bahrain

Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis ŠNigel Blake http://www.nigelblake.co.uk

You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of bird species:333

useful reading

Birds in Bahrain

Erik Hirschfeld, Hans Larsson (Illustrator); Bill Morton (Illustrator) Paperback (July 1995) Hobby Publications
ISBN: 1872839037
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Birds of Bahrain

by Tom Nightingale and Mike Hill, Immel Publishing 1993

Birds of Southern Arabia

Dave Robinson Paperback (December 1992) Motivate Publishing
ISBN: 1873544375
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Birds of the Middle East

R.F. Porter, S. Christensen, P. Schiermacker-Hansen Hardcover - 350 pages (September 1996) T & AD Poyser (UK)
ISBN: 0856610763
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The Breeding Birds of Hawar

- Results of the 1998 Survey. By Howard King Published by the Ministry of Housing Bahrain 29.12.1999 Hard cover - colour illustrations
ISBN: 9990111006
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useful information

Proact

Coordinator: none (why not apply?)
see http://www.proact-campaigns.net/coordinators
Members: 1
Join us at http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team

clubs

Birdlife

http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/national/bahrain/index.html
Dr Saeed A Mohamed, PO Box 40266, Bahrain. +973 640 055 saeed@alreem.com

reserves

Al-Areen Wildlife Sanctuary

http://www.alreem.com/protected/al-areen.stm
Al-Areen Wildlife Sanctuary was built between 1976 and 1979 at Al Markh, 5km south-west of Jebel al Dukhan, 2km from the Zallaq shoreline, located 26 1N 50 30E. The site is 2x4 km, varying from salt flats about 3m above sea level on the western side, to the higher elevation about 45m above sea level on the eastern side. The salt flats are mainly marine type sand to barren salt. The highest point, known as rimrock, is predominantly dolomite rock.

Biodiversity and Protected Areas

http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/bio_cou_048.pdf
Pdf

Wetlands of International Importance

http://www.ramsar.org
Bahrain presently has 2 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 6,810 hectares...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

2005 [November] - Mark Beaman

http://www.birdquest.co.uk/tripreports.cfm?trip=451
Here is a place that offers thoroughly enjoyable Palearctic birding with loads of gripping specialities and an amazing variety of migrants, perfect weather (as long as you like it hot, the sky is blue and the sun shines almost all day every day), dramatic scenery, wonderful roads and an easy-going atmosphere that makes birding here a real pleasure. We managed a record 246 species during our sojourn in Arabia...

tour operators

Birdquest

http://www.birdquest.co.uk
The small farms often attract numerous visitors, including a few Oriental Skylarks, while Mourning Wheatears frequent the rocky interior. Other new birds for the tour may include Common Quail, Northern Lapwing, Common Snipe, Eurasian Skylark, Water Pipit, White-eared Bulbul, and Bluethroat. However, our main purpose in coming to Bahrain is to see the enigmatic Grey Hypocolius (usually treated as a monotypic family, Hypocolidae)...

Arabian Wildlife

http://www.arabianwildlife.com/main.htm
Magazine...

Bahrain Bird Report

http://www.hawar-islands.com/
Bahrain is a good place to Bird and well worth a visit. It might not be in the class of Kenya or South America but it is small and compact. A hundred species in a day is easy in most seasons except high summer. It has good Hotels, Car hire and numerous eating holes. Most people speak good English and actually like visitors. So if you are going to Europe or moving the other way to India or the Far East consider a short stop over