UAE - Rare birds to be reported

updated 28.04.2007

[] Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus cristatus

[] Jouanin’s Petrel Bulweria fallax

[] Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus

[] Leach’s Storm Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa

[] Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus

[] Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus

[] Masked Booby Sula dactylatra melanops

[] Red-footed Booby Sula sula rubripes

[] Brown Booby Sula leucogaster plotus

[] Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia

[] Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus

[] Black Stork Ciconia nigra

[] Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor

[] Mute Swan Cygnus olor

[] Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus

[] Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii

[] Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus

[] Cotton Pygmy Goose N. c. coromandelianus

[] Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris

[] Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina

[] Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

[] Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus

[] Pallas’ Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus

[] Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus fulvus

[] Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus

[] Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes

[] Shikra Accipiter badius (note 2)

[] Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis

[] White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

[] Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina

[] Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos homeyeri

[] Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus

[] Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

[] Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae

[] Merlin Falco columbarius

[] Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus

[] Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo

[] Common Crane Grus grus

[] Little Crake Porzana parva

[] Baillon’s Crake Porzana pusilla

[] Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata

[] Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax

[] Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis

[] Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum

[] Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

[] Small Pratincole Glareola lactea

[] Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus

[] Kittlitz’s Plover Charadrius pecuarius

[] Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

[] Great Snipe Gallinago media

[] Red Knot Calidris canutus canutus

[] Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis

[] Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

[] Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria

- Large Skua sp. Stercorarius sp.

[] Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus

[] White-eyed Gull Larus leucopthalmus

[] Common Gull Larus canus heinei

[] Brown-headed Gull Larus brunnicephalus

[] Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus

[] Little Gull Larus minutus

[] Sabine’s Gull Xema sabini

[] Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla tridactyla

[] Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii

[] Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

[] Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata nubilosa

[] Black Tern Chlidonias niger niger

[] Brown Noddy Anous stolidus pileatus (note 3)

[] Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris tenuirostris

[] Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus

[] Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis

[] Stock Dove Columba oenas

[] Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
[] Red Turtle Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica

[] Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus scolopaceus

[] Sykes’s Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis

[] Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus pacificus

[] Grey-headed Kingfisher H. leucocephala semicaerulea

[] White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis

[] Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra

[] Dunn’s Lark Eremalauda dunni eremodites

[] Temminck’s Lark Eremophila bilopha

[] Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus

[] Streak-throated Swallow Petrochelidon fluvicola

[] Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens japonicus (note 5)

[] Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus

[] Redwing Turdus iliacus iliacus

[] Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

[] Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus

[] Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus

[] Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe melanoptera

[] Eversmann’s Redstart Phoenicurus erythronota (note 4)

[] Pied Stonechat Saxicola caprata (note 4)

[] Blackstart Cercomela melanura

[] White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga ernesti

[] Finsch’s Wheatear Oenanthe finschii (note 4)

[] Rufous-tailed Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna

[] Cetti’s Warbler Cettia cett

[] Eurasian River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis

[] Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon

[] Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola

[] Blyth’s Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum (note 1)

[] Booted Warbler Hippolais caligata caligata

[] Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina

[] Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler Phylloscopus orientalis

[] Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus

[] Radde’s Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi

[] Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus

[] Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus

[] Eurasian Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca tomensis

[] Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla

[] Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelaena

[] Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus cristatus

[] Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach erythronotus

[] Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor homeyeri

[] Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus albirictus

[] Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus

[] Northern Raven Corvus corax

[] Wattled Starling Creatophora cineracea

[] Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster arabicus

[] Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus moabiticus

[] Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus

[] Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

[] Common Linnet Carduelis cannabina

[] Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella erythrogenys

[] Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos leucocephalos

[] White-capped Bunting Emberiza stewarti

[] Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

[] Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica rustica

[] Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola aureola

[] Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

[] Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

Note 1 = Not from Abu Dhabi Island

Note 2 = Not from the Dubai area

Note 3 = Not from the East Coast (Dibba to Khor Kalba)

Note 4 = Females and immatures only

Note 5 = Not from Dubai Pivot Fields