Bulletin 16 - March 1982: Preliminary List of Birds Breeding in the UAE and Offshore

Preliminary List of Birds Breeding in the UAE and Offshore

by J.N.B. Brown

The species number shown below is taken from "Birds Recorded in the United Arab Emirates", a list compiled by Mrs. F.E. Warr in 1978. This in turn was arrived at by numbering every species listed by K.H. Voous in his "List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species", Ibis 1973, issue 115: pp.612 - 638 and Ibis 1977, issue 119: pp. 223 - 250 and 276 - 406.

Voous No.	Common Name	Latin Name	Year
	Zarqa (Zirku) Island
64	Red-billed Tropicbird	Phaethon aethereus	1981
81	Socotra Cormorant	Phalacrocorax nigrogularis	1981
119	Reef Heron	Egretta gularis	1981
313	Sooty Falcon	Falco concolor	1981
571	Sooty Gull	Larus hemprichii	1981
620	White-cheeked Tern	Sterna repressa	1981
622	Bridled Tern	Sterna anaethetus	1981
	Al Ain
248	Egyptian Vulture	Neophron pernopterus	1980
684 687	Collared Turtle Dove	Streptopelia decaocto Streptopelia turtur	1981
990	Pale Crag-martin	Hirundo obsoleta	1977
	Dibba/Masafi
657	Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse	Pterocles lichtensteinii	1979
838	Little Green Bee-eater	Merops orientalis	1978
1572	Indian House Crow	Corvus splendens	--
	*Dubai*
469	Little Ringed Plover	Charadrius dubius	1981
	*Hatta*
1493	Purple Sunbird	Nectarina asiatica	1980
	*Abu Dhabi and Surrounds*
302	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	1981
305	Kestrel	Falco tinnunculus	1977
477	Kentish Plover	Charadrius alexandrinus	1981
690	Palm Dove	Streptopelia senegalensis	1980
712	Ring-necked Parakeet	Psittacula krameri
958	Hoopoe Lark	Alaemon alaudipes	1980
1227	Graceful Warbler	Prinia gracilis	1980
1571	Brown-necked Raven	Corvus ruficullis	1977
1587	Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	1979
1591	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	1981

Evidence and records of other birds nesting in the UAE would be welcomed. Substantiating the records of birds already listed above would confirm their status as breeding, where we only have records of young birds, not eggs, in the nest. This list has been compiled mainly from the records of the following observers: J.Stewart-Smith, W. Robertson, G.Miles (Dubai), R.O. King, J.M. & M. Hollingworth, A.D. Harris, T. & M. Giles, I. Fraser, J.N.B. Brown