Viv has taken some photographs of Black-crowned Night Heron from the
main wetland near Tabuk that he has sent to me and kindly allowed me to use.
Black-crowned Night Heron is an uncommon migrant to most areas of Saudi Arabia
but in the Riyadh area is a common spring and autumn passage migrant passing
early February to early June and again from late July to early November and
rarely as late as December with birds now regularly breeding in the area. In
the Eastern Province it is an uncommon migrant noted more often in autumn than
spring. Juveniles occur from September through November and sometimes into
February. Spring occurrences are irregular from April to May. They are uncommon
in the Tabuk area in the northwest of the country although appear to be coming
more common.
