10th – 20th March 2025 Swallows run through in loose flocks overland, stopping briefly in the early morning to forage in vegetated wadis; small parties of green sandpipers huddle on the coast; and garganey flocks move north low over the sea. The coast is quiet and migration is just commencing; this is time when species…
Tag: Kentish plover
Red Sea mangroves and shorebirds
October 2023 The south beach at KAUST is full of resting waders and terns; crab plovers, sand and Kentish plovers, curlews whimbrel, spotted redshank, lesser crested terns, a Caspian tern and reef and striated herons. The crab plovers are both charismatic and enigmatic; they breed colonially on sandy islands in the Red Sea where pairs excavate…