Shikra is a scarce breeding resident of the southwest of Saudi Arabia
with a few scattered records of migrants elsewhere including Riyadh where a
female was collected on 18 October 1938 that is now held by the British Museum
(Natural History) at Tring, UK. The birds we saw were an adult male and female
and a three juveniles still in the nest. An adult was seen perched in the tree
top and another seen chasing a Long-legged Buzzard and later the same birds
were seen near the nest as well as circling over. We got good flight views of
the birds but they were no on view for long periods of time so getting good
photographs was difficult.
