Birds of Saudi Arabia
Birds of Saudi Arabia Title Picture I found and photographed a Pharaoh Eagle Owl near Ushaiqer, north-west of Riyadh, an uncommon species found in the Saudi Arabian deserts, with this one found under some tall plants growing in a stony desert area. The Pharaoh Eagle Owl is distributed throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East, where they are found in arid habitats, including open desert plains, rocky outcrops and broken escarpments and jabals, mountain cliffs and wadis. This wadi located near Taif is a site where I have seen Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak on two occasions in previ...