If you have recently visited the U.A.E. or have older records not yet submitted, please take the time now to do so.

The Bird Recorder for the United Arab Emirates is Tommy Pedersen as of November 2005.

He can be contacted by e-mail 

or by ordinary mail:

Tommy Pedersen

FC 611 - Emirates Operations

P.O. Box 92 - Dubai

United Arab Emirates

All records will be entered in an advanced bird recorder program for PC 

called Wildlife Recorder, available from Wildlife Computing

In what format should you submit records?

In any format you are comfortable with, as long as they are submitted. Photo-copied pages of logbooks are acceptable if no other options are available. The Bird Recorder is relatively fluent in English and all Scandinavian languages, less so in French, and his German and Finnish is all but non-existent.

I have listed a few options below, in order of preference:

1.  

If you happen to be one of the thousands of birders already using the Wildlife Recorder program, in "Trips" just highlight the dates you wish to send by holding down the Ctrl-key and click on the dates in question. Then right-click, choose Export (make sure "Export Both" & "Export Selected Records" are selected!), give it a name and e-mail me the relevant file.

2.  

If you have entered your records in any other bird recording program, please export your records as either an Excel-file or any other comma-separated file (*.csv) and e-mail me the relevant file. Wildlife Recorder have a strong import-engine, and chances are excellent that it will be recognised.

3.  

If you are using Excel or Access to keep your records on a PC, please send me an Excel-file with your records. Wildlife Recorder will be able to import them.

4.  

An e-mail listing the birds you saw is also possible. I will manually enter the sightings.

5.  

A photocopy of your sightings can be airmailed.

Some species needs to be formally accepted by the Emirates Bird Records Committee  

If you need a Rare Bird Report Form, you  can download it here