Beautiful Birds of Abu Dhabi | 25 Species | Nature of the Middle East

One morning, one precious morning birding on Saadiyat Island.
I was visiting New York University Abu Dhabi and got a few hours to explore a green sliver of land with saltwater lakes at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club. February 13, 2017.
The location attracts an enormous variety of species of local breeders and migrants, from Black-winged Stilt to Desert Wheatear.
The following 25 species were filmed:
0:09 Black-winged Stilt juvenile (Himantopus himantopus) الكرسوع أبومغازل
0:54 Black-winged Stilt adult
1:21 Striated Heron (Butorides striata brevipes)
1:32 Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucis) طيطوى الرمل الشائعة
1:44 Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) السمنة المغردة
2:06 Common Pochard (Athya ferina) البط كستنائي الرأس
2:08 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) البُركة
2:12 Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis schistacea, aka Indian Reef Heron
Pair of them. The gray bird in front is a dark morph.
2:31 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloripus) دجاجة الماء
2:34 and 2:50 Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) أبوقردان
3:02 Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) الغراء Glimpsed in lower right corner
3:03 Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) الغطاس الصغير
Adult diving for fish and feeding two juveniles.
4:04 Great Cormorant (Phalocrocorax carbo) الغاق الكبير
4:24 Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
4:33 Great White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) الإوز الأغر
Two birds way in the back, walking left on the grass
4:36 Common Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridobundus) النورس أسود الرأس
in breeding plumage and surface feeding with winter plumage birds.
4:37 Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus) passing glimpse of a bird on the grass behind the gull.
4:52 Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) كروان الغيط الصغير
5:00 Yellow-throated Sparrow (Petronia xanthocollis) taking off from left side
5:00 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in the back of the tree
5:00 Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
5:21 White-eared Bulbul (singing) Pycnonotus leucotis, Singing at 5:24
5:32 Indian Silverbill (Euodice malabarica). There’s also a separate videos on these birds.
6:17 Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti)
6:35 Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto ) الفاختة Singing at start of video

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