Arab World Birds
Remember to Check out below - Important Contemporary Issues - Famine in Horn of Africa
Welcome to this Arab World Birds website, which is attempting to eventually cover and bring together on line an introduction to all ornithological and birding matters relating to the whole Arab World, (plus a few adjacent regions to fill in the gaps) to complete the full ornithological picture across Northern Africa, from The Atlantic to The Horn of Africa, The Middle East to Iran, The South Caucasus, and The Arabian Peninsular. The only remaining outlying region is The Comoros Islands. It is an ambitious long term project that is taking some time bring together into a coherent scheme, thank you for your patience.
As far as I am aware, this is the first attempt to co-ordinate the ornithology of all the countries in the Arab World into one region, at the moment it is covered by a number of different organizations but the two primary scientific ones which cover parts of The AWB Region are:-
for all the Arab Countries in Africa
for The Middle East, The Arabian Peninsular, Iran and Central Asia.
LATEST UPDATES
I am pleased to announce that a further intermediate goal has now been achieved, more than 920 species cards, on the AWB Species page– link, have now been completed, including the full Species List for the UAE, Morocco, Oman and KSA, – please check them out… In addition big improvements have been made with the Categories search tool, to extend its usefulness in species and family searches, also as a further aid to finding species. I have also started to introduce links to the Species Cards using using old traditional names, that I think will be a useful function for the Categories search tool to link to existing and historical published books to get over the confusion caused by the never ending name changes that are ongoing.
Anyone interested in Arab World Birds are encouraged to join these societies.
In addition there are now various active blogs covering countries or smaller regions within the main AWB AREA, links to these sites can be found on the relevant Country Profile Pages.
Arab World Birds - Site Layout
All main menus are established and all Country Profiles have now been updated to provide comprehensive information for all EBA’s, IBA’s and Marine IBA’s within the AWB Region.
All the Country Profiles have been revised and updated again to include extensive Multimedia links to the new Multimedia Checklists for each country and an additional AWB menu has now been added to give easier access to the many different Country Checklists with extensive additional species information links that have also been added.
NEW Added Feature
The most important new feature, that is now in progress, is the addition of individual Species Accounts of the birds that regularly occur in the AWB Region. Starting with the Accipitridae Family all species will eventually be included on the AWB menu. As noted above, a significant number of Species-cards for none-passerine species on the AWB page has now been achieved, also two new categories have been introduced, Accidentals and Vagrants, which clarify the treatment of these concepts.
The REGION MAP essential information on the Country Profiles for all the Arab Countries in the AWB Region, in both Africa and the Middle East Regions.
The REGIONAL TOPICS Menu has started will a few items of regional interest.
The BASICS menu has links to help brush up your basic birding skills.
The TAXONOMY menu has been started to give an introduction to this complex subject.
The AWB menu has been added to give convenient links to Country Checklists and additional extensive Species Information.
The DESERTS menu gives a comprehensive introduction to the Deserts of the AWB Region.
The MIGRATION menu has started with many links and explanations to the various Flyways that cross the AWB Region
The CONSERVATION menu gives introductions to some of the important organiZations that are dedicated to helping preserve birds and their habitats in the AWB Region to the enrichment of all human life and environments.
The NEWS menu gives several links to continuously updated NEWS reports on current bird and conservation matters within the AWB Region from a number of international conservation bodies. Some of these are also available
from the “Continuously Updated News Sources” heading below.
Continuously Updated News Sources
As a convenience to our readers we give immediate access to a selection of breaking news sources concerning Conservation and AWB bird stories on our home page here, by clicking on any of the links listed below:-
Important Contemporary Issues
- UAE Surprising Facts - The National
- Horn of Africa facing Famine - The National
- Golden Opportunity to restore species and ecosystems - The National
- Mr Savy Saviour of the Sooty Terns - BBC
- New Generations - The National
- Songs of Disappearance - Bird Life Australia
- Nature's soundtrack in chronic decline - TheNational
- Ultimate Irony - Cape Gannet - Birdlife
- Extinction Red List Updated - IUCN
- Is Feeding Garden Birds a Good Idea - BBC
- Corals and seabirds - National Geographic
- Nature Crisis in Global Biodiversity -BBC
- Puffins Climate Change threat - BBC
- Boost biodiversity at home - BBC
- Gulls and Cities - BBC
- The Surprising Truth About Vultures - BBC
- Climate Change Review - Summary Gov.uk
- Socotra Needs Help - The National
- World Oceans Day - unep.org
- New Ocean Recognised by National Geographic
- Why Wetlands Matter - wetlands.org
- Global Big Day - 8 May 2021
- UAE Releases 86 Falcons into Kazakhstan skies
- A HEALTHY PLANET Should be a Human Right - Birdlife
- Wildlife in Catastrophic Decline - WWF -BBC
- Mangrove conservation video - NASA
- Black wind turbine blade can cut bird deaths- BBC
- Red Alert - RSPB
- Bird Tracking - a Master Class - BTO
- 'Hotspot Hero' for inspirational conservation work - Birdlife
- Abu Dhabi trains squads of birds to pick up litter in Parks
- Birdlife Case Study - The Jordan Valley nature conservation
- Abu Dhabi saves rare duck from extinction
- Houbara claws it's way back from the brink of extinction
- Evolution of the House Sparrow
- Want to save sea birds? - Then Follow Them!
- Saving Red-billed Tropic Birds
- Climate Change - Arctic no longer safe for breeding birds
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 2 - Dubai - October 2018
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - Dubai, October 2018 Conservation of the Northern Bald Ibis - bbc.com
- How birds survived an asteroid strike
- Socotra Cyclone Mekunu Damage
- Parakeet Range Extension
- Reducing poisoning pressures on Scavengers and Waterbirds
- Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
- Accompanied Swan Migration World Migratory Bird Day
- White Storks in Portugal
- White Storks changing their Migration Patterns
- World is failing to protect it's Migratory Birds
- Africa's Vultures sliding towards extinction!!!
- Widespread Lead Poisoning to birds
- Are humans Unique?
- Garden bird survey aims to solve Goldfinch mystery
- More potential UK Extinctions
- Iliegal Bird Killing in the Mediterranean Region - birdlife.org... This has become everybody's problem...
- Bald Ibis Conservation Project - bbc.co.uk... Morocco has the largest surviving population in the wild.
- Record Breaking Number of Europeans Call on Governments to Protect Nature
- What is the point of Conservation? - bbc.com - An indepth Analysis to an important pressing problem
Exceptional Birds
Tracking Bird Migration by satellite is now much more extensive, and many more projects can now be found by searching online, maybe you can find some more information about your favorite bird’s whereabouts when it migrates away from your home area.