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Yemen

Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis 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!

top sites

Socotra Islands

Facts: 134 Bird Species; 6 Endemics

numbers

Number of bird species:423
National Bird: Golden-winged Grosbeak

numbers

useful reading

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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Important Bird Areas in the Middle East

M I Evans, S M Andrews (Illustrator); A J Long (Illustrator) Paperback (September 1994) Birdlife International
ISBN: 0946888280
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useful information

Proact

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Yemen Arab Tourism Agency

YATA (Yemen Arab Tourism Agency); Airport Road, Street No 9, Sana`a (P O Box 1153);Tel: 9671 224236; fax 9671 251597. Efficient and willing. YATA run regular bird-watching tours, mostly for German agencies.

clubs

Yemen Society for the Protection of Wildlife

Yemen Society for the Protection of Wildlife is the BirdLife International Affiliate for Yemen. Address: 29 Alger Street, PO Box 19759, Sana`a, Yemen Email: wildlife.yemen@y.net.ye

reserves

Utma Wildlife Sanctuary

http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss13/culture.htm
The presence of a verdant and extensive cover has made the district`s population bound to the raising of many numbers and types of animals and birds. This also has resulted in providing new sources of income for the residents of the district.

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!

1992 [November] - John van der Woude

http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~jvanderw/yem92/yemrep92.html
The number of bird species we identified is 96, half of this being lifers for us. In three weeks time, you can see more species than that in Yemen. We didn`t bird all day long, nor really every day, and focused, as said before, on the wadi`s. Especially at the coast, at city dumps (raptors); and at the inland desert fringes we could have added more species to the list if we had taken more time for those spots.

1995 [January] - Jan Hendrik van Oers

http://www.osme.org/osmetrip/yemtrip.html
More a checvklist with a few comments.

Birds of Yemen

http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/porter93.htm
The Republic of Yemen is very rich in bird life. If one includes the island of Socotra over 360 species have been recorded. Among these are seventeen species (thirteen on the mainland and four on Socotra) which are found nowhere else in the world except in some cases neighbouring areas of south west Arabia. For these so-called endemics Yemen has a special responsibility and because of them, ranks as one of the most important countries in the Middle East for bird conservation.

Recent records from Yemen

http://www.osme.org/osmerec/yemrec.html
There are no sightings this year, as yet, maybe due to the political situation.

Summary of the OSME Survey of Southern and Eastern Yemen and Socotra:

http://www.aiys.org/webdate/osme.html
Over an eight week period from March to May 1993 the Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME) conducted an extensive survey of the birds, habitats and conservation in the southern and eastern governorates of the Republic of Yemen. A week of the period was spent on the island of Socotra.

Yemen Wildlife

http://www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol2.2/yem.htm
From the eco-tourism point of view, Yemen`s main attraction is its birdlife, which is particularly abundant during the spring and autumn migrations. At these times thousands of raptors cross the Bab-al-Mandeb straits between Yemen and Africa, but there are also many species that use the junction of land and sea along the Red Sea coast as a flight path between Africa and Europe. Whilst running a boat in this area, I have witnessed hundreds of exhausted birds land for a rest, picked up others from the sea, and even had one fall asleep on my sunglasses, whilst I was wearing them!