Birds of Bahrain
By: Tom Nightingale and Mike Hill.
Contributors: Hill, Mike, Dr.
Publisher: Immel Pub.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Birds -- Bahrain.; Birds -- Bahrain -- Identification.
Genres: Identification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-277) and indexes.
"Presented to the Library of Congress on the occasion of its Bicentennial by the Embassy of Bahrain."
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: FOREWORD 9 Chapter Four; title: SOME ORNITHOLOGISTS OF MORE RECENT TIMES 50; title: PREFACE 11 The Gulf Bird-watchers 1969-1971 50; title: Trevor Hallam and The Bahrain Natural History Society 53; title: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 12; title: Chapter Five; title: PLACE NAMES 13 MIGRATION 55; title: Summer and Winter Visitors 59; title: Chapter One Rare Wintering Birds 59; title: INTRODUCING BAHRAIN 15 Vagrants 61; title: Geographical and Physical 16 Wintering and Non-breeding Shorebirds 61; title: Climate 16 Unusual Summering Birds 61; title: Vegetation 19 Local Movement and Post-breeding Dispersal 62; title: Ringing Returns 62; title: Chapter Two; title: BAHRAIN AND SOME ASPECTS OF ITS WILDLIFE 20 Chapter Six; title: Northern Bahrain 20 WATCHING BIRDS 63; title: Central Bahrain 25 ASRY Causeway 65; title: Southern Bahrain 31 Tubli Bay 66; title: The Other La rger Islands 33 The Sanad Mangrove Swamp 67; title: The Hawar Islands 35 Dumistan Pools 68; title: Marine and Coastal Environment 39 The Racecourse at Sakhir 70; title: Oil Pollution 43 The Groves at Sakhir 71; title: TheJabal 72; title: Chapter Three The UBF Stream 73; title: ORNITHOLOGISTS OF EARLIER DAYS IN BAHRAN 45 Desert Areas 74; title: Colonel Robert Cheesman 45 Other Sites 75; title: Sidney Dillon Ripley 47 Offshore Sightings 76; title: Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen 48 Shooting, Trapping and Egg Collection 76; title: Chapter Seven Chapter Ten; title: A CONTRAST IN HABITAT 78 SYSTEMATIC LIST OF THE BIRDS OF BAHRAIN 165; title: A Desert Backslope 78 Appendix One: Probable Occurrences 267; title: A Date Garden 81 Appendix Two: Rejected Species 269; title: Appendix Three: Species in the Collection of Al-Areen; title: Chapter Eight Wildlife Park 270; title: BIRDS THROUGH THE YEAR 85 The Observers 271; title: January 86; title: Febru ary 89 GLOSSARY 272; title: March 93 Bird Topography 274; title: April 97; title: May 102 BIBLIOGRAPHY 275; title: June 104; title: July 106 INDEX OF ENGLISH NAMES 278; title: August 108; title: September 112 INDEX OF LATIN NAMES 281; title: October 115; title: November 122; title: December 127; title: Chapter Nine; title: THE BREEDING BIRDS OF BAHRAIN 134; title: Known Breeding Species 135; title: Potential Breeding Species 161; title: Introduced Breeding Birds 161; title: Escaped Species that Might Be Found to Breed 164.