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Birds of Saudi Arabia

Birds of Saudi Arabia Title Picture Part of a UNESCO listed world heritage site rich in rock art, including figures of men, animals, palm trees and feet impressions, inscribed skilfully in life size shape. Some of these petroglyphs date to 14,000 years BP with life sized camel figures being from the Thamudic period 3000 years BP. At Jabal Raat six major clusters of rock art can be discerned. Although there is evidence on the lower slopes of Jabal Raat that some rocks with petroglyphs on them have been displaced since the petroglyphs were first made, this was undoubtedly a natural occurrence. Like Jubbah, the site has been in use over a prolonged period of time, certainly for most of the Holocene at least. On one steeply sloping panel at Raat, about fifteen large cupules of 5–10 cm diameter occur. They appear to be the oldest surviving component of the site considered to be either of the final Pleistocene or the earliest Holocene. The surface of the panel has largely fallen vi

Saudi arabiaArabian peninsulaSaudi arabia generalSouth africaUmm sinmanJabal umm sinmanGreat nafud desertMiddle eastIron ageBronze ageசவுதி அரேபியாஅரேபியன் தீபகற்பம்நடுத்தர கிழக்குஇரும்பு வாழ்நாள்வெண்கலம் வாழ்நாள்

Birds of Saudi Arabia

Birds of Saudi Arabia Title Picture Whilst birding the Jubail area in mid-June we saw two pairs of adult Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta behaving as if they had young nearby. A quick look failed to locate the young birds and as we did not want to disturb them if they were breeding, we only stayed a few minutes. The next week the birds again were acting in a way to suggest they had young, but again we failed to see any. At then end of the month we located two separate young birds with the adults and managed to get a few photos. It is very unusual to see breeding Pied Avocet in Saudi Arabia and the species is mainly an uncommon migrant and winter visitor to all coasts that is locally common along the southern Red Sea coast and scarce inland. Very few birds have been proven to breed but in Riyadh in 1986 10 birds over-summered and two pairs nested in June and produced young. In 1987 a pair again bred but the nest was preyed upon by Brown-necked Ravens

Saudi arabiaArabian peninsulaSaudi arabia generalSouth africaUmm sinmanJabal umm sinmanGreat nafud desertMiddle eastIron ageBronze ageசவுதி அரேபியாஅரேபியன் தீபகற்பம்நடுத்தர கிழக்குஇரும்பு வாழ்நாள்வெண்கலம் வாழ்நாள்

Birds of Saudi Arabia

Birds of Saudi Arabia Title Picture Part of a UNESCO listed world heritage site rich in rock art, including figures of men, animals, palm trees and feet impressions, inscribed skilfully in life size shape. Some of these petroglyphs date to 14,000 years BP with life sized camel figures being from the Thamudic period 3000 years BP. Jabals al-Manjor and Raat are rock escarpments of a now sand-covered wadi that is thought to have been a broad valley with flowing water during the early Holocene. Both Jabal al-Manjor and Raat contain a large number of human and animal figures, and other hills and outcrops within the buffer zone feature smaller concentrations. These sandstone exposures occur in a region that has seen numerous volcanic eruptions and lava flows in recent geological history. The large number of petroglyphs and inscriptions at these site complexes has been attributed to almost 10,000 years of human history. As the aquifer subsided, probably around mid-Holocene times, the for

Saudi arabiaArabian peninsulaSaudi arabia generalSouth africaUmm sinmanJabal umm sinmanGreat nafud desertMiddle eastIron ageBronze ageசவுதி அரேபியாஅரேபியன் தீபகற்பம்நடுத்தர கிழக்குஇரும்பு வாழ்நாள்வெண்கலம் வாழ்நாள்

Birds of Saudi Arabia

Birds of Saudi Arabia Title Picture Whilst birding the Jubail area in May we saw two juvenile Egyptian Nightjars. The plumage was very fresh with neat white fringed coverts forming neat lines across the wing with the birds staying around for at least a week. A few weeks later we found up to nine adult birds in wing moult. Breeding has long been suspected at this location and the fact that last year birds were proved to have bred in Qatif in KSA and juveniles were seen in Jubail with the young and adult remaining together suggests these birds are local rather than from elsewhere in the nearby region.

Saudi arabiaArabian peninsulaSaudi arabia generalSouth africaUmm sinmanJabal umm sinmanGreat nafud desertMiddle eastIron ageBronze ageசவுதி அரேபியாஅரேபியன் தீபகற்பம்நடுத்தர கிழக்குஇரும்பு வாழ்நாள்வெண்கலம் வாழ்நாள்