1st Slaty-breasted Rail for #Oman and the Greater Western Palearctic found on 3rd February in a hotel garden near Salalah! Hopefully it will remain for more birders to see!
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Male Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak
Male Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak
Another top Oman target bird is the enigmatic Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak. Never easy to see, and wary, I was delighted to get great views of this male yesterday. #Oman #omanbirding #birds
Variable Wheatear showed well at Musandam in northern #Oman recently.
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A common but still stunning bird from southern Oman is Cinnamon-breasted Bunting.
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Streaked Scrub Warbler is relatively common on the Sayh Plateau in northern Oman.
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Having found 6 Eversmann’s Redstarts at Musandam & another at Shisr Fields, I’ve only gone and found another 4 at Jabal Akhdar on the Sayh Plateau. What is going on? 😂 🔥
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Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
Always a treat to come across Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse during daylight hours. Our @wisebirding.bsky.social group had amazing views of 7 birds in Mudayy, Oman, yesterday #oman #omanbirding #birds
This monster of a Lappet-faced Vulture flew low overhead at Al Mutaqa rubbish dump #Oman #omanbirding #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025
Red-tailed (Persian) Wheatear winters in northern Oman and isn’t hard to find. This particularly bright individual was present at Musandam recently.
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Seeing a flock of 17 Sociable Lapwings right next to our hotel was very unexpected #birds #oman #nikon #omanbirding #zootherabirding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding
Record shot of the Watercock currently at Wadi Ashawq #Oman The quality of rarities currently being found over here is phenomenal…
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Here’s a record shot of the 3rd Black Heron for Oman we saw yesterday at Khawr Mughsayl. Oman rocks!
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Wilson’s Storm Petrel
Rufous Bushchat
Oman Latest News - Masirah Island
100+ Wilson’s Storm Petrels, Wryneck, Bluethroat, Red-Backed Shrike, Rufous Bushchat, Barred Warbler, Booted Warbler, eastern Common Nightingale, Rose-coloured Starling, Black-headed Bunting, Citrine Wagtail….
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Bay-backed Shrike - bred once at Musandam & is a rare migrant.
Olive-backed Pipit has become a regular passage migrant in mid-late Autumn period.
We have an innovative new tour for 2026, visiting Musandam & Masirah Island in search of scarce migrants and rarities. And we are aiming high!
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One of the things I love about #Oman is getting really close views of shorebirds such as this Broad-billed Sandpiper.
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Yemen Serin
Arabian Grosbeak
Socotra Cormorant
Birding in Oman
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Another Afro-Tropical found in #Oman is the stunning Grey-headed Kingfisher. It was one of the most numerous birds in the wadis of Dhofar during my recent visit. #birds #birding #omanbirding
Oman - July 2009.
Inspired by @zootherabirding.bsky.social to put my #seawatching #seabirds trip on the blog.
#omanbirding is somewhere I would love to go back to, both for a pure summer seawatching trip & for some winter #birding #birds
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Flesh-footed Shearwater was one of the commonest seabirds during our time in the Dhofar region of southern #Oman. We had 100's passing the coast most days and during our pelagics they regularly came in to check out our chum slick.
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The nocturnal Spotted Thicknee is an Afro-tropical species that is resident in the Dhofar region of Salalah. It is mainly seen at a few well-known day roosts in Salalah, Oman but is a true African species from the west coast of Senegal all the way across the continent to Kenya…
We had unbelievable views of my usual pair of Spotted Thick-knee in downtown Salalah during our Seabird Tour last week! We watched them from the SUV at a respectful distance and they weren’t the least bit bothered.
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A raft of Tropical Shearwaters
Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel
Fleet-footed Shearwaters
Jouanin’s Petrel
Mirbat pelagic 7:30am - 11:45am today:
24 Red-necked Phalarope
11 Bridled Tern
1 Red-billed Tropicbird
75 Wilson's Storm-Petrel
3 Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel
8 Jouanin's Petrel
160+ Flesh-footed Shearwater
600+ Persian Shearwater
65 Masked Booby
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Yellow Bittern is usually a really tough species to find in #Oman during the Nov-Feb birding season. But during the summer months they are really, really common! Where do they all go after breeding?
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We have teamed up with Alula Designs to produce these excellent t-shirts & hoodies for Oman Birding.
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters have arrived on their breeding grounds and are busy nesting in holes in sand banks across #Oman. It's truly amazing!
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Rufous Bushchat
Bushchats be here…!
Musandam
Indian Roller posing nicely
Found 7 Rufous Bushchats at Musandam in northern Oman today, along with a group of 56 Ortolan Buntings, 2 Black-headed Buntings and around 100 Yellow-throated Sparrows. #birds #birding #omanbirding #BirdsSeenIn2025
Just to give a flavour of what it’s like to see Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse visiting a drinking pool in the desert. A few Crowned Sandgrouse were lurking in the background too! This was taken during my latest tour in March 2025. #Oman #omanbirding #birding
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Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse arrived in their 100’s at a drinking pool near Mudday during our recent tour to #Oman #birds #omanbirding
Oman latest sightings - today a group of Spanish birders inc Cosme Damian found the 1st Red-necked Stint for #Oman.
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