All the pictures shown below were taken during the period 2000-2003 by my (excellent) trainee Mahmud Abdallah and I within the Palmyrean desert (using an 800 mm Sigma telephoto lens).

 

 

Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides

Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus

Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber

Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus

 

Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus

Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca

Bonelli's Eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus

 

Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus

Steppe Buzzard Buteo buteo vulpinus

 

Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus

 

Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevips

 

Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni

 

Saker Falcon Falco cherrug

 

Common Crane Grus grus

Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata

Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor

 

Spur-winged Plover Hoplopterus spinosus

 

 

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa

Greater Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius

 

European Scops Owl Otus scops

Hoopoe Lark Alaemon alaudipes

Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola

 

Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens

 

White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis

Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros (ochruros?)

 

Bluethroat Luscinia svecica

 

Cyprus Pied Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca

Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus

 

Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus

Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta

Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala

 

Chamaleo Chamaleo chamaleo

Stenodactylus grandiceps

 

Ptyodactylus cf. guttatus

 

 

Ptyodactylus puiseuxi

 

 

Desert Monitor Varanus griseus

 

False Cobra Malpolon moilensis

 

 

 

Cat Snake Telescopus nigriceps

Horned Viper Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi

 

 

Last updated on 8 February 2005

 

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