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Spring Migration and a Little Archaeology in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Jordan: Spring Migration and a Little Archaeology in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Cumulative Checklist Column A: A '1' indicates that the species was seen during our inaugural 2012 tour Column B: Number of days this species was observed on the 2012 tour Column C: Maximum daily count for this species on the 2012 tour Column D: H = Heard only; N = Nesting activity observed A B C D 1 Egyptian Goose 2 1 Alopochen aegyptiaca 1 Mallard 2 15 Anas platyrhynchos 1 Garganey 2 3 Anas querquedula 1 Green-winged (Common) Teal 1 4 Anas crecca crecca Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula 1 Chukar 2 4 Alectoris chukar 1 Sand Partridge 1 2 Ammoperdix heyi Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus Common Quail Coturnix coturnix Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus 1 Little Grebe 4 2 Tachybaptus ruficollis 1 Black Stork 2 3 Ciconia nigra 1 White Stork 1 1 Ciconia ciconia Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus 1 Grey Heron 3 6 Ardea cinerea 1 Purple Heron 3 10 Ardea purpurea 1 Great Egret 1 1 Ardea alba 1 Little Egret 5 30 Egretta garzetta Western Reef Egret Egretta gularis 1 Cattle Egret 2 1 Bubulcus ibis 1 Squacco Heron 4 2 Ardeola ralloides 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 4 6 Nycticorax nycticorax 1 Glossy Ibis 1 1 Plegadis falcinellus 1 Eurasian Spoonbill 1 1 Platalea leucorodia 1 Osprey 1 1 Pandion haliaetus 1 European Honey Buzzard 2 2 Pernis apivorus 1 Black Kite 3 2 Milvus migrans 1 Egyptian Vulture 1 1 Neophron percnopterus 1 Eurasian Griffon 1 1 Gyps fulvus __________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Jordan Cumulative Checklist… 2 1 Short-toed Eagle 6 2 Circaetus gallicus 1 Western Marsh Harrier 2 2 Circus aeruginosus 1 Pallid Harrier 2 2 Circus macrourus 1 Montagu's Harrier 1 1 Circus pygargus 1 Levant Sparrowhawk 1 2 Accipiter brevipes 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk 5 4 Accipiter nisus 1 Eurasian "Steppe" Buzzard 10 55 Buteo buteo vulpinus 1 Long-legged Buzzard 2 3 Buteo rufinus Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii Bonelli's Eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus 1 Booted Eagle 2 2 Hieraaetus pennatus 1 Lesser Kestrel 1 8 Falco naumanni 1 Common Kestrel 7 4 Falco tinnunculus Sooty Falcon Falco concolor Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus Barbary Falcon Falco pelegrinoides Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata 1 Little Crake 1 2 Porzana parva 1 Common Coot 4 10 Fulica atra 1 Common Moorhen 3 5 Gallinula chloropus 1 Spur-winged Plover 4 35 Hoplopterus spinosus 1 Common Ringed Plover 1 1 Charadrius hiaticula 1 Little Ringed Plover 3 3 Charadrius dubius 1 Kentish Plover 2 1 Charadrius alexandrinus Greater Sand Plover Charadirus leschenaultii 1 Black-winged Stilt 2 20 Himantopus himantopus Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta 1 Common Sandpiper 5 10 Actitis hypoleucos 1 Green Sandpiper 2 3 Tringa ochropus 1 Common Greenshank 3 4 Tringa nebularia 1 Marsh Sandpiper 2 3 Tringa stagnatilis 1 Wood Sandpiper 3 10 Tringa glareola 1 Black-tailed Godwit 1 1 Limosa limosa 1 Little Stint 3 20 Calidris minuta Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea 1 Dunlin 1 1 Calidris alpina ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Jordan Cumulative Checklist… 3 1 Ruff 3 25 Philomachus pugnax Great Snipe Gallinago media 1 Common Snipe 1 1 Gallinago gallinago Cream-colored Courser Cursorius cursor 1 Collared Pratincole 2 6 Glareola pratincola 1 Slender-billed Gull 2 30 Larus genei 1 Common Black-headed Gull 2 10 Larus ridibundus 1 White-eyed Gull 1 1 Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 50 Larus fuscus 1 Gull-billed Tern 1 32 Gelochelidon nilotica 1 Caspian Tern 1 1 Hydroprogne caspia Common Tern Sterna hirundo Little Tern Sterna albifrons Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus Crowned Sandgrouse Pterocles coronatus 1 Rock Pigeon 12 20 N Columba livia 1 Eurasian Collared Dove 10 30 Streptopelia decaocto 1 Laughing Dove 12 6 Streptopelia senegalensis 1 European Turtle Dove 4 2 Streptopelia turtur 1 Namaqua Dove 2 2 Oena capensis 1 Rose-ringed Parakeet 2 6 Psittacula krameri 1 Common Cuckoo 3 3 Cuculus canorus Eurasian Scop's Owl Otus scops Little Owl Athene noctua Hume's Owl Strix butleri European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius 1 Alpine Swift 1 3 Apus melba 1 Common Swift 7 10 Apus apus 1 Pallid Swift 3 6 Apus pallidus Little Swift Apus affinus European Roller Coracias garrulus 1 White-throated Kingfisher 3 3 Hacyon smyrnensis Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis 1 Pied Kingfisher 3 5 Ceryle rudis 1 Green Bee-eater 2 1 Merops orientalis 1 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 1 1 Merops persicus 1 European Bee-eater 2 15 Merops apiaster ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Jordan Cumulative Checklist… 4 1 Eurasian Hoopoe 8 5 Upupa epops 1 Eurasian Wryneck 2 1 Jynx torquilla 1 Syrian Woodpecker 1 1 N Dendrocopus syriacus 1 Northern (Arabian Great Grey) Shrike 1 1 Lanius excubitor aucheri 1 Lesser Grey Shrike 2 1 Lanius minor Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio 1 Masked Shrike 7 3 Lanius nubicus 1 Woodchat Shrike 3 4 Lanius senator 1 Eurasian Golden Oriole 1 1 Oriolus oriolus 1 Eurasian Jay 2 6 Garrulus glandarius 1 House Crow 3 10 Corvus splendens 1 Carrion "Hooded" Crow 2 5 Corvus corone cornix 1 Brown-necked Raven 5 15 Corvus ruficollis 1 Fan-tailed Raven 2 10 Corvus rhipidurus Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra 1 Bar-tailed Lark 1 2 Ammomanes cincturus 1 Desert Lark 5 10 Ammonomanes deserti 1 Greater Short-toed Lark 1 3 Calandrella brachydactyla Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens Dunn's Lark Eremalauda dunni 1 Crested Lark 6 10 Galerida cristata Woodlark Lullula arborea 1 Temminck's Lark 1 4 Eremophila bilopha 1 Bank Swallow (Collared Sand Martin) 4 20 Riparia riparia 1 Rock Martin 7 50 N Ptyonoprogne fuligula 1 Barn Swallow 11 100 Hirundo rustica 1 Red-rumped Swallow 1 1 Hirundo daurica 1 Northern House Martin 5 15 Delichon urbica 1 Great Tit 4 8 N Parus major 1 Blue Tit 1 2 Parus caeruleus 1 White-spectacled Bulbul 8 20 Pycnonotus xanthopygos 1 White-eared Bulbul 3 15 Pycnonotus leucotis 1 Scrub Warbler 3 2 Scotocerca inquieta 1 Cetti's Warbler 4 1 Cettia cetti 1 Willow Warbler 5 3 Phylloscopus trochilus 1 Common Chiffchaff 3 3 Phylloscopus collybita 1 Eastern Bonelli's Warber 2 4 Phylloscopus orientalis Wood Warbler Phylloscopus siliatrix 1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 4 4 Hippolais pallida 1 Upcher's Warbler 3 2 Hippolais languida ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Jordan Cumulative Checklist… 5 Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus 1 Moustached Warbler 2 1 Acrocephalus melaopogon 1 Eurasian Reed-Warbler 3 20 Acrocephalus scirpaceus 1 Graceful Prinia 5 6 Prinia gracilis 1 Blackcap 10 100 Sylvia atricapilla Garden Warbler Sylvia borin Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria 1 Eastern Orphean Warbler 2 1 Sylvia crassirostris Red Sea Warbler Sylvia leucomelaena 1 Greater Whitethroat 2 4 Sylvia communis 1 Lesser Whitethroat 10 25 Sylvia curruca 1 Spectacled Warbler 2 1 Sylvia conspicillata 1 Sardinian Warbler 2 6 Sylvia melanocpehalus Arabian Babbler Turdoides squamiceps Winter Wren Trgolodytes troglodytes 1 Spotted Flycatcher 1 2 Muscicapa striata 1 Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin 2 1 Cercotrichus galactotes European Robin Erithacus rubecula 1 Thrush Nightingale 2 2 Luscinia luscinia 1 Common Nightingale 3 2 Luscinia megarhynchos 1 Bluethroat 1 1 Luscnina svecica Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca 1 Collared Flycatcher 1 1 Ficedula aldicollis 1 Semi-collared Flycatcher 3 1 Ficedula semitorquata 1 Common Redstart 4 4 Phoenicurus phoenicurus 1 Black Redstart 1 1 Phoenicurus ochruros 1 Common Rock Thrush 2 1 Monticola saxatilis Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius Whinchat Saxicola rubetra 1 Common Stonechat 1 1 Saxicola torquata 1 Blackstart 1 1 Cercomela melanura 1 White-tailed (White-crowned) Wheatear 2 3 Oenanthe leucopyga 1 Hooded Wheatear 1 1 Oenanthe monacha 1 Northern Wheatear 4 2 Oenanthe oenanthe 1 Mourning Wheatear 1 1 Oenanthe lugens Mourning "Basalt" Wheatear Oenanthe lugens basalti Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta 1 Black-eared Wheatear 7 4 Oenanthe hispanica Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti 1 Isabelline Wheatear 1 1 Oenanthe isabellina 1 Eurasian Blackbird 6 10 Turdus merula ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Jordan Cumulative Checklist… 6 European Starling Sturnus vulgaris 1 Tristram's Starling 6
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