Howard King

#Bahrain #Birds Bluethroat: After a slow start, numbers are now beginning to increase; however, only a few individual birds will remain for the winter.

#Bahrain #Birds #Waders Bar-tailed Godwit (yamalensis) a common wintering species as seen yesterday (29/10/25) in full winter plumage

Queensland nature (2/?): Sacred Kingfisher (x3), Torresian Kingfisher

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Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) 28 October 2025. Mirada Surf County Park, El Granada, California, USA. A very rare vagrant in California, found 10/27 by Joanne Kerbavaz. The sharply pointed and attenuated rectrices indicate an immature (formative plumage) and the all dark primary coverts and alula indicate a female. Widespread nominate subspecies characterized by relatively small size and reduced white on its lower back but here based on range. Formerly classified with other buntings in Emberizidae, Snow Buntings are now placed in a new family, the Calcariidae along with the Longspurs.

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) 28 October 2025. Mirada Surf County Park, El Granada, California, USA. A very rare vagrant in California, found 10/27 by Joanne Kerbavaz. The sharply pointed and attenuated rectrices indicate an immature (formative plumage)

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) 28 October 2025. Mirada Surf County Park, El Granada, California, USA. A very rare vagrant in California, found 10/27 by Joanne Kerbavaz. The all dark primary coverts and alula indicate a female.

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
28 October 2025. Mirada Surf County Park, El Granada, California, USA.

A rare vagrant in California. The sharply pointed and attenuated rectrices indicate an immature (formative plumage) and the all dark primary coverts and alula indicate a female.

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#Bahrain #Birds Hypocolius, a special Middle East endemic here as a winter visitor. They started arriving around the 23rd of October this year; so far, we have counted 60+, but expect the number to reach hundreds.

seagull

I was lying in the wet sand when this Ring-billed Gull wandered by, perhaps looking for dinner at the beach?

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#Bahrain #Birds #Waders Greater Sandplover over 300 at one of many roosts on the shore with early morning high tides this week. Variety is in the eye of the beholder, or needed DNA studies

#Bahrain #Birds Pacific Golden Plover, a regular but scarce, numerically, winter visitor

#Bahrain #Birds Southern Grey Shrike, a residential and partial migrant species.

Deep thoughts. 🪶
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Strike A Pose... Late evening. Hugo The Black Crowned Night Heron, displaying his incredible balance and athletic prowess. He was slowly preparing for his nightly hunt. Very handsome.📸🇨🇦
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#Bahrain #Birds the small areas of coastal mangrove around Tubli Bay do provide cover around its pools of open water sanctuary for a variety of ducks. Currently, Shoveller, Garganey and Mallard are the most numerous, with Gadwall, Pintail and Teal starting to arrive.

Headmaster of the Llandysul garden keeping an eye on things....#birds #nature #cymru

I once upon a time lived in Pentrcwrt

#Bahrain #Birds we usually have one or two Pied Kingfiers each winter but currently we have five possibly six in a small influx at Ras Sanad mangrove reserve

#Bahrain #Birds European Nightjar -- Not my photo, it was taken by a friend, Pakur Pradesh, using a borrowed Z9 with an 800mm lens in fading light yesterday evening.

#Bahrain #Birds Ruff, a common winter visitor, more often to farmland than the shore.

#Bahrain #Birds Turkestan Shrike, always confiding when approached cautiously. A wintering species with seasonal peaks during migration passages

#Bahrain #Birds Barn Owl, our only resident breeding owl

#Bahrain #Birds Redstart, a passage migrant and winter visitor

Brilliant - 😂

#Bahrain #Birds #Gulls The number of large white headed Gulls out of Siberia, central Europe and Asia is increasing daily. With 5 species to pick from, Hueglins, Steppe, Armenian, Caspian, and Baltic, ID is always a problem. How would you fare?

Bald Ibis near Barbate, Andalucía this week.
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Hunter's Cisticola Kilimanjarocisticola Cisticola hunteri

Hunter's Cisticola
Kilimanjarocisticola
Cisticola hunteri
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Sadly, none, but always on the lookout for any type of ring. What colour are you looking for?

#Bahrain #Birds #Terns among the hundreds of Little Terns on the shore at the moment are a few Saunders's Terns. Getting a shot of the two species, identifiable and close together, down to persistence and a big trash bin ( Litle Left, Saunders's Right )

Ruby-crowned Kinglets
Did I mention that there was a lot of Kinglet activity in the wildlife gardens today?
A non-stop Aphid eating party.
Still more photos to come.
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Thanks for the Link. The paper opens up the same arguments for every species of wader passing down the Gulf. WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Challenges in population monitoring: Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) on the East Atlantic Flyway defy assumed population structure | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Jesse R. Conklin, Roeland A. Bom, Åke Lindström, Pierrick Bocher, Theunis Piersma | #ornithology 🪶