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YEMEN SAIJIKI
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Birds of Yemen
***** Location: Yemen
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Animal
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Explanation
Yemen is one of the richest countries in the Middle East as to birds. Across its lands are more than 370 different types of birds confined to the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and other countries near it. In Socotra alone are 13 species of settling birds unmatched anywhere in the world.
Several birds unknown in the Arab and Islamic world come here in certain seasons to breed. Among them are African birds that come during Yemen’s spring rainy season to build their nests and raise their babies.
In winter, different types of birds come from the north, particularly Europe and Russia, to escape cold weather there. These birds spend the winter in Yemen’s mountains and coasts, where it’s easy to catch food and then return to their original locales to breed in spring.
Located in the southern Arabian Peninsula, Yemen has become a station through which thousands, and perhaps millions, of birds pass twice a year on their long journey between South Africa and Europe and Asia....
© Yemen Times, 2008
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..................... SPRING
Amethyst Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster)
beginning of spring -the time when a number of truly beautiful birds crosses over from Africa to breed in Yemen.
The breeding season of birds on the Red Sea coast of Yemen commences in January/February, but more usually in March or April with the beginning of the short wet season .
(An der jemenitischen Rotmeerküste beginnt die Brutzeit der Vögel im Januar/Februar, meist aber im März/April mit Beginn der Kleinen Regenzeit.).
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burning light
through my binoculars ..
first Amethyst Starling
Heike Gewi, Yemen, April 2008
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Bulbul mating and nesting season
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..................... SUMMER
Green Pigeons
There are various types of green pigeons.
Check the WIKIPEDIA !
Look at some photo HERE !
African Green Pigeon [Treron calva]
Bruce's Green-Pigeon Treron waalia
White-bellied Pigeon Treron sieboldii
Yellow-bellied Green PigeonYellow-vented green pigeon
German: Waaliataube
These fruit eating birds have leaf-greenbacks with purple shoulders and dazzling yellow bellies. Almost all species have finished their reproductive cycle by the beginning of the summer monsoon.
make yourself at home!
green pigeon
checking a fig tree
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purple scarf
crossing my mind -
green pigeon seen
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one for me
one for you!..
green pigeon pecks at figs
Heike Gewi, Yemen, April 2008
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Palm Dove, laughing dove
(Streptopelia senegalensis)
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monsoon rain
slowing to a drizzle..
sleepy palm dove
Heike Gewi, Yemen, April 2008
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..................... AUTUMN
Bee-eater, little green bee-eater.
Merops orientalis
They have a spring and autumn migration (they return to their African winter quarters).
As kigo, we use them for AUTUMN.
Habitat: Wadi Dahr, Tihama wadi's, Tihama Foothills and the rivers in between.
The little green bee-eater Merops orientalis ranges from Senegal eastwards to Vietnam, in various different forms or subspecies. The Arabian subspecies Merops orientalis cyanophrys is perhaps the most beautiful, with its bright cerulean blue chin and throat. This wonderful little bird is a widespread resident in Arabia.The little green bee-eater's habitat includes dry acacia areas and farmland. In Africa, flying ants are the most commonly reported food. Pairs breed singly and helpers have not been recorded.
source:
http://pr.sv.net/aw/2005/june/english/nature2.htm
The bee-eaters are a group of near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. Most species are found in Africa but others occur in southern Europe, Australia and New Guinea.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
: www.oiseaux.net: More photos
acacias' silence
on Jabal Samir's foot..
little green left
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green swarms
in a breeze from north
empty twigs
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wind blows
acacia leaves
over the mountain..
little green
Heike Gewi, Yemen, June 2008
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Larks of various kinds
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..................... WINTER
Flamingo
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Things found on the way
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.. Heike Gewi
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For sheer variety of birds, the best time to watch is during migration. Although many types of birds migrate throughYemen, one of the best wildlife spectacles on the Arabian Peninsula is the massmigration of raptors at Bab al Mandabeach October. More than a quarter of a million birds of prey representing perhaps 30 species of kite, buzzard, hawk, eagle,falcon, and harrier pass through Bab Al-Mandab [Bab = gate; Gate Al-Mandab] during a five-week period.These birds choose to migrate across the narrowest point of the southern Red Sea because they are wary of crossing large bodies of water. Pelicans, herons, ibises,and storks join the throng for a sight thatmust be seen to be believed. For climatic reasons, the spring raptor migration is largely up the western shore of the RedSea, and apart from a few thousand Egyptian Vultures and Booted Eagles and a sprinkling of hawks, it misses Yemen almost entirely.
Autumn:
wide opened
like the gate itself..
wings of a black kite
Heike Gewi
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