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Hoopoes Upupa epops - pronounced “hoo-poo” (both the colloquial and scientific names are onomatopoeic and based on the soft “hoop hoop” call) - are surely one of the Palearctic’s most characterful and unmistakeable birds. Breeding from southern Europe to Russia they are plentiful migrants throughout the eastern Gulf Emirates and States and are found commonly [...]

09 July 2006, Dubai, UAE
 

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a constitutional federation of seven emirates; Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. The federation was formally established on 2 December 1971.

The UAE occupies an area of 83,000 sq km along the south-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar lies [...]

10 May 2005
Local time: GMT +4
Approx noon temp: 30C
Weather: Sunny with a few scattered, light clouds
 

 
Just before I left for this trip I got a mail from Steve James, an old mate who now lives in the UAE, saying that there had been a huge “fall” of migrants in the emirates, and that - with [...]

Pivot Fields and Wimpey Pits, Dubai, UAE, and Al Jazera Hotel, Jebel Ali
01 March 2005
 
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a constitutional federation of seven emirates; Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. The federation was formally established on 2 December 1971.

The UAE occupies an area of 83,000 sq km [...]

 
‘Wimpey Pits’, Dubai, UAE16 January 2005.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a constitutional federation of seven emirates; Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. The federation was formally established on 2 December 1971.

The UAE occupies an area of 83,000 sq km along the south-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar [...]

Pallid Swifts Apus pallidus pallidus
Dubai, Wimpey Gravel Pits, 16 January 2005
 

 
All photographs © Charlie Moores.
 

Socotra Cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis
Dubai Creek/Arabian Gulf 2003
 
The Socotra Cormorant is listed as Vulnerable by Birdlife International “because it has a small and declining range. In addition, its population is suspected to have undergone a rapid decline of 30% or more over the past 33 years (the estimate for three generations), due mainly to infrastructural development [...]