Saudi Birding

Arabian Woodpecker (Dendrocopos dorae)

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A Kingdom of Birds: Birding in Saudi Arabia

This is a video recording of an online talk I gave to the Fort Worth Audubon Society in Fort Worth, Texas about birding in Saudi Arabia....

Trigger Warning! Gear Talk Ahead

The day before flying to Jazan this past summer my Nikon P610 60X superzoom digital camera stopped charging. I suspect the charging port...

Capturing Beauty in the Saudi Wilds: An Interview with Abdullah Hatim

In the time Saudi Arabia opened to international tourism and the pandemic so abruptly shut it all down again, Instagram started to get...

Feeling Hopeful with Mansur Al Fahad*

During my first year in Saudi Arabia, while tracking down what literature I could find on the Kingdom’s birdlife, another name besides...

Kindling the Local Fire: An Interview with Abdullah Al Shaikh Hussain

Back in October of last year I met some members of the Birds Monitoring Group, a group of Saudi bird photographers mostly from the Al...