World and the Wild
Photography by Umer Farooq
Bird Watchlist
Below is the list of birds and species watched and photographed so far :
1. Greater Spotted Eagle
2. Steppe Eagles
3. Imperial Eagle
4. Common Kestrel
5. Marsh harrier
6. Osprey
7. Oriental honey Buzzard
8. Eurasian honey Buzzard
9. Eurasian Sparrow Hawk
10. Common King Fisher
11. Pied King Fisher
12. White throated king Fisher
13. Desert Wheatears
14. Pied Wheatears
15. Lesser Whitethroat
16. Redstart
17. Black Redstart
18. White Capped Redstart
19. Plumbeous Water Redstart
20. Indian Roller
21. European Roller
22. Rufous Tailed Scrub Robin
23. Black Bush Robin
24. Indian Robin
25. Bushcat
26. Stonechat
27. Great Barbet
28. Common Chiffchaff
29. Leaf Warbler
30. Reed Warbler
31. Meadow pipit
32. Water Pipit
33. Squacco heron
34. Black Crowned Night Heron
35. Eurasian oystercatcher
36. Bar tailed godwits
37. Kentish Plover
38. Little Ringed lover
39. Greater sand Plover
40. Lesser sand Plover
41. Ruddy Turnstone
42. Cattle Egret
43. Intermediate Egret
44. Great Egret
45. Little Egret
46. Grey Heron
47. Great Cormorant
48. Socotra Cormorant
49. Siberian Gull
50. Caspian Gull
51. Common Tern
52. Caspian Tern
53. Gull Billed Tern
54. Common Sandpiper
55. Redshank
56. Greenshank
57. Black Winged Stilt
58. Namaqua Dove
59. Collard Dove
60. Laughing Dove
61. Turtle Dove
62. Bluethroat
63. Ortolon Bunting
64. Barn Swallows
65. Wire tailed Swallow
66. Little Banded Goshawk
67. White Eye Buzzard
68. Black Winged Kite
69. Indian Robin
70. Dark Sided Flycatcher
71. Spotted Flycatcher
72. Laughing Thrush
73. Streaked Laughing thrush
74. Coal tit
75. Green Backed tit
76. Grey Buschat
77. Bar tailed tree creeper
78. Scaly Breasted Munia
79. Indian SilverBill
80. Indian grey Hornbill(Seen)
81. Grey Francolin
82. Jungle Babbler
83. Tailor Bird (seen)
84. Large Grey Babbler
85. Black Drongo
86. Brown Rockchat
87. Purple Sunbird
88. Pied Bush chat
89. Oriental Magpie Robin
90. Grey Swamphen
91. Common Moorhen
92. Flamingo
93. Graceful Prinia
94. Plain Prinia
95. Ashy Prinia
96. Blue checked Bee Eater
97. Blue Tailed Bee eater
98. European Bee Eater
99. Arabian Bee Eater
100. Rock Sparrow
101. Mallard
102. Common Pochards
103. Garganey
104. Common Teals
105. Little Grebe
106. Curlew
107. Dunlin
108. Crested lark
109. Common Starling
110. Rosy Starling
111. Desert Warbler
112. Red Backed Shrike
113. Masked Shrike
114. Woodchat Shrike
115. Isabelline Shrike
116. Turkestan Shrike
117. Long Tailed Shrike
118. Great Grey Shrike
119. Red Wattled lapwing
120. Spur winged Lapwing
121. Northern Lapwing
122. Red Avadavat
123 Pharoah Eagle owl
124. Baya Weaver
125 Yellow breasted green finch
126.Montago harrier ( Female and Dark morph Male )
127.Pallied harrier
128. Pallied Harrier ( Male) [ confirmed,saw second clear pic of a fellow birder in same region]
129. Hypocolious
130. European stonechat
131. Eurasian Marsh Harrier
132. European Stonechat
133. Northern Wheatear
134. Little Bittern
135. Grey Plover
136. Ruff
137. Lesser Sand Plover
138. Egyptian Night Jar
139. Common Cuckoo
140. Common Snipe
141.White tailed Lapwing ( Khafra lake )
142. Steppe Grey Shrike
143. Lesser Grey Shrike
144. Isabelline Wheatear
145. Water Rail
146. Eastern Imperial Eagle
147. Eurasian Coot
148. Greater Hoopoe Lark
149. Northern Pintail Duck
150. Common Whitethroat
151.Citrine Wagtail
152. Black Neckeed Grebe
153. Ruppels Weaver
154. Eurasian Black cap
155. Tawny Pipit
156. White Wagtail
157. Grey Wagtail