all these pictures present the Al Ain city in United Arab Emirates & Burimi city in Oman

...

Wednesday 14 May 2008

Birds 3

This is the 3rd collection of birds around UAE (Al Ain city)

This time i was able to identify some of the birds by having help from the ENHG , and as they did a great trip for watching birds. and from a friend of mine who got some lovely garden at her house. :)

Hope you like them.

Bee Eater

Here is a couple of shots of the baby's hoopoe , this was the first time for me to see how they baby hoopoe looks like.. ;)..(Thank you Treva)






Black-winged Stilt Himantopus

baby bulbul


female rufous-tailed rock thrush



Striated bunting (lives here all year)

Humes Wheatear (also lives here all year)

7 comments:

Unknown said...

beautiful birds! excellent captures.

Stained said...

the picture of the last black and white bird makes me wonder what it is....cool pictures all of them!!!

Anonymous said...

Sooooo sweeeeeeet !!!!
Thank you very much !!!!

Anonymous said...

Hi Amer -- nice photos of Trevas baby birds -- your unknown birds are: first female rufous-tailed rock thrush (on her way to Russian Mountians), Striated bunting (lives here all year), and Humes Wheatear (also lives here all year) Dave

Fliss and Mike Adventures said...

Love the birds... take care

Someone in Al Ain said...

Thanks for the comments guys.. , thanks Dave for the identifications..i was confused about the humes , but do you remember when i told you there is something on the head (lol)

thanks minus , stained , c'est moi and fliss and mike..

Amer

Unknown said...

thank you for sharing, once again! Hoopoe are omnipresent here in Dubai parks, but I've never seen this birds' chick;) very cute.