Final Festival Checklist – 24-31 March 2008
As tradition goes we assembled at the hotel conference room on the last evening to compile the full checklist of species seen during the week. Once again we broke the festival record of 219 species as we logged a whopping 237 species in the 7 days, a remarkable new record list..
The following species were seen on the festival tours and workshops.
The significant species are highlighted.
Little Grebe |
Collared Dove |
Great Cormorant |
Laughing Dove |
Sooty Shearwater |
Rock Dove |
Yelkouan Shearwater – 2nd Eilat record for this Mediterranean species |
(Desert) Little Owl |
White Pelican |
(Pharaoh) Eagle Owl |
Little Bittern |
Hume's Tawny Owl |
Night Heron |
Egyptian Nightjar |
Mangrove (Striated) Heron |
Nubian Nightjar |
Cattle Egret |
Common Swift |
Squacco Heron |
Pallid Swift |
Little Egret |
Alpine Swift |
Western Reef Heron |
Hoopoe |
Great Egret |
Common Kingfisher |
Grey Heron |
Smyrna Kingfisher |
Purple Heron |
Pied Kingfisher |
White Stork |
Common Bee-eater |
Black Stork |
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater |
Glossy Ibis |
Little Green Bee-eater |
Eurasian Spoonbill |
Roller |
Greater Flamingo |
Syrian Woodpecker |
Common Shelduck |
Rose-ringed Parakeet |
Mallard |
Wryneck |
Northern Pintail |
Crested lark |
Northern Shoveler |
Greater Short-toed Lark |
Eurasian Wigeon |
Lesser Short-toed Lark |
Garganey |
Desert Lark |
Teal |
Bar-tailed Lark |
Common Pochard |
Thick-billed Lark |
Ferruginous Duck |
Bimaculated Lark |
Griffon Vulture |
Temminck's Lark |
Egyptian Vulture |
Sand Martin |
Osprey |
Rock (pale Crag) Martin |
Eastern Imperial Eagle |
House Martin |
Lesser Spotted Eagle |
Barn Swallow |
Steppe Eagle |
Red-Rumped Swallow |
Short-toed Eagle |
Tawny Pipit |
Bonnelli's Eagle |
Water Pipit |
Booted Eagle |
Red-throated Pipit |
Black Kite |
Meadow Pipit |
Marsh Harrier |
Tree Pipit |
Pallid Harrier |
Olive-backed Pipit |
Hen Harrier |
White Wagtail |
Long-legged Buzzard |
Grey Wagtail |
Eurasian Sparrowhawk |
Yellow Wagtail |
Levant Sparrowhawk |
Citrine Wagtail |
Steppe Buzzard |
Spectacled Bulbul |
Honey Buzzard |
Common Nightingale |
Crested Honey Buzzard |
Rufous Bush Robin |
Common Kestrel |
Black Bush Robin |
Lesser Kestrel |
Bluethroat |
Hobby |
Common Redstart |
Lanner |
Northern Wheatear |
Barbary Falcon |
Isabelline Wheatear |
Chukar |
Desert Wheatear |
Sand Partridge |
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear |
Quail |
Blackstart |
Water Rail |
Hooded Wheatear |
Little Crake |
Mourning Wheatear |
Spotted Crake |
White-crowned Wheatear |
Moorhen |
Stonechat |
Coot |
Eastern Stonechat |
Common Crane |
Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush |
Maqueen's Bustard |
Blue Rock Thrush |
Avocet |
Song Thrush |
Black winged Stilt |
Blackbird |
Stone Curlew |
Blackcap |
Cream-colored Courser |
Eastern Orphean Warbler |
Collared Pratincole |
Lesser Whitethroat |
Little Ringed Plover |
Common Whitethroat |
Ringed Plover |
Arabian Warbler |
Kentish Plover |
Subalpine Warbler |
Greater Sand Plover |
Cyprus Warbler |
Grey Plover |
Sardinian Warbler |
Golden Plover |
Spectacled Warbler |
Caspian Plover |
Ruppell's Warbler |
Spur-winged Plover |
Graceful Prinia |
White-tailed Plover |
Scrub Warbler |
Dunlin |
Sedge Warbler |
Little Stint |
Reed Warbler |
Temminck's Stint |
Savi's Warbler |
Broad-billed Sandpiper |
Cetti's Warbler |
Curlew Sandpiper |
Marsh Warbler |
Green Sandpiper |
Clamorous Reed Warbler |
Wood Sandpiper |
Great Reed Warbler |
Common Sandpiper |
Wood Warbler |
Marsh Sandpiper |
E. Olivaceous Warbler |
Redshank |
Balkan (E. Bonnelli's Warbler) |
Greenshank |
Chiffchaff |
Black-tailed Godwit |
Willow Warbler |
Common Snipe |
Great Tit |
Ruff |
Woodchat Shrike |
Curlew |
Red-backed Shrike |
Arctic Skua |
Masked Shrike |
Pomarine Skua |
Southern Grey Shrike |
Black-headed Gull |
Turkestan Shrike |
Slender-billed Gull |
Palestine Sunbird |
Mediterranean Gull |
Arabian Babbler |
Little Gull |
Jay |
Pallas's Gull |
Common Raven |
Armenian Gull |
Brown-necked Raven |
Baltic Gull |
Fan-tailed Raven |
Caspian Gull |
Hooded Crow |
Siberian Gull |
Indian House Crow |
Yellow-legged Gull |
Tristram's Grackle |
White-eyed Gull |
Starling |
Little Tern |
House Sparrow |
Common Tern |
Spanish Sparrow |
White-cheeked Tern |
Dead-sea Sparrow |
Gull-billed Tern |
Linnet |
Sandwich Tern |
Greenfinch |
Whiskered Tern |
Goldfinch |
Caspian Tern |
Desert Finch |
Black-bellied Sandgrouse |
Trumpeter Finch |
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse |
Mountain Bunting |
Spotted Sandgrouse |
Ortolan Bunting |
Crowned Sandgrouse |
Chretzschmar's Bunting |
Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse |
Corn Bunting |
Namaqua Dove |
Indian Silverbill |
Turtle Dove |
Total Species: 237 ! |