little stint
little grebe
house martin
barn swallow
chiffchaff
desert wheatear
collared dove
water pipit
slender-billed gull
socatra cormorant
black necked grebe - same as eared??
great cormorant
grey heron
purple heron
great white egret
little egret
western reef heron - saw both white phase and dark phase
cattle egret - same as home
squacco heron
greater flamingo - hundreds!
gadwall - same as home
common teal - 'eurasian teal' back home
mallard...
shoveler...
ferruginous duck.
osprey
marsh harrier
spotted eagle (lesser)
grey francolin
water rail - Gordon - who i was birding with who has been there 3 years hadn't seen one before!
moorhen
purple swamphen - these things are HUGE! 4 times the size of a coot / moorhen
eurasian coot
oystercatcher (eurasion)
black winged stilt
grey plover - same / similar to black-bellied?
ringed plover
kentish plover
whimbrel
curlew
redshank
marsh sandpiper
greenshank
wood sandpiper
common sandpiper
turnstone
dunlin
curlew sandpiper
ruff
black-headed gull
caspian tern
little tern
lesser-crested tern
laughing / palm dove
rose ringed parakeet
little owl!!!
common kingfisher
pallid swift
yellow wagtail
white cheeked bulbul
red vented bulbul
isabelline shrike
southern grey shrike
pied wheatear
isabelline wheatear
siberian stonechat
clamorous reed warbler
graceful prinia (a warbler)
desert warbler
indian silverbill
common myna
house crow
red crested pochard (female seen only)
crested lark
gull billed tern (same as NA)
eurasion wigeon
white wagtail
upchers warbler
terek sandpiper
green sandpiper
bar tailed godwit
bluethroat
armenia gull (yellow footed gull supspecies)
great crested grebe