ZOOTHERA BIRDING BLOG

A little expedition to check out the recently discovered crake pools at the bottom of Ayn Tobruq Plains gave the briefest views of a  Baillo...

Well, the day got off to a great start with 3  Arabian Gazelles  beside the road as we drove to Mudday this morning. This small desert town ...

Our day began with a 6am departure from Al Ghaftain Resthouse and after a 75 minute drive we reached Muntesar Oasis for a great few hours bi...

Our day began just a few minutes away from the hotel at Mahout Park, where practically the first bird we saw was an  Oriental Turtle Dove  f...

We headed to the waderfest that is Barr Al Hickman Area 4 at 5.30am which entailed driving across the potentially wet desert (also known as ...

After returning to the hotel in the early hours we had a later start than usual and left shortly after 9am on the drive south to Mahout, loc...

Bit of an odd day as we left Barka shortly after 7am and drove back towards Muscat where we called in to the Al Ansab Wetlands hopefully to ...

We returned to the same wadi as last night, but needed some sleep so didn’t leave until 8am! What?! Still we scored all of our target birds ...

Well, Oman is getting popular and now firmly established on the world birding circuit. There’s already a few companies and other birders ahe...