Michael Dahlem's pages on birds of Oman

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White Stork	Grey Francolin	Golden Oriole	Purple Sunbird	Arabian Green Bee-eater	Common Myna


Grey Heron	House Crow	Indian Roller	Red-wattled Lapwing	Eurasian Hoopoe	Green Sandpiper


Laughing Dove	Ring-necked Parakeet	Indian Silverbill	Mute Swan	White-eared Bulbul	Eurasian Whimbrel


Lesser Whitethroat	White-spect- acled Bulbul	Greenshank	Little Egret	(Eurasian) Black-winged Stilt	Blue-cheeked Bee-eater


Spotted Flycatcher	House Sparrow	Common Sandpiper	Graceful Prinia	Grey Wagtail


Slender-billed Gull	Pale Crag Martin	White Wagtail	Eurasian Curlew	Great Cormorant


Greater Sand Plover	Squacco Heron	Spoonbill	Glossy Ibis	Western Reef Heron


Little Heron	Red-tailed Wheatear	Striolated Bunting	Arabian Babbler	Hume's Wheatear


Eastern Olivaceous Warbler	Pallid Scops Owl	Isabelline Shrike	Eurasian Collared Dove	Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin	Crested Lark


Streaked Scrub Warbler	Rock Dove	Upcher's Warbler	Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse	European Nightjar	Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse


White-cheeked Tern	Black-crowned Sparrow-lark	Common Tern	Tibetan Sand Plover	Lesser Crested Tern


European Roller	Egyptian Vulture	Sanderling	Crested Tern	Terek Sandpiper	Sandwich Tern


Barn Swallow	Bridled Tern	Namaqua Dove	Cream-coloured Courser	Kestrel	Marsh Warbler


Heuglin's Gull	Bar-tailed Godwit	Temminck's Stint	Indian Pond Heron	Blue Rock Thrush	Mallard


Sooty Gull	Desert Wheatear	Black Redstart	Egyptian Goose	Common Kingfisher	Caspian Gull	White-tailed Lapwing


Clamorous Reed Warbler	Common Chiffchaff	Eurasian Stone-curlew	Spur-winged Lapwing	Common Ringed Plover


Black-crowned Night Heron	Little Bee-eater	Common Redstart	Lesser Flamingo	Great Egret	Pied Kingfisher	Osprey


Lappet-faced Vulture	Greater Flamingo	Wire-tailed Swallow	Brown-necked Raven	Eurasian Oystercatcher	Purple Heron


Southern Grey Shrike	Western Yellow Wagtail	Western Cattle Egret	Asian Koel	Isabelline Wheatear


Black Kite	White-crowned Wheatear	Red-vented Bulbul	Asian Houbara	Little Bittern	Parasitic Jaeger


Wood Sandpiper	Tawny Eagle	African Sacred Ibis	Black-winged Kite	Hooded Wheatear

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