Last stop on our tour of Egypt was Hurghada on the Red Sea coast. I had no particular high hopes for the birds here beyond a few nice gulls, but I was very pleasantly surprised. The best area was the Hurghada Sewage works (see next post), but there were birds even in the hotel grounds. Best of all was an unfortunate
Collared Flycatcher which was picked up, exhausted, by a diner at the hotel restaurant! She was showing the bird around to her family, but allowed me to persuade her to return it to the bush she found it in...
The coastal birds were as expected.
White-eyed Gulls dominated, but there were plenty of
Sooty Gulls, several types of
Lesser Black-backed Gull (mainly
Baltic Gull,
L. f. fuscus), a
Slender-billed Gull, a group of 3
Brown Booby and quite a few
Common Tern. Other birds included migrating
Western Marsh Harrier and
Long-legged Buzzard.
Adult male
Collared Flycatcher.
Sooty Gull
White-eyed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
This group of 3
Brown Booby hung around on or near this buoy for our entire visit.
Long-legged Buzzard
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