In summer this year Phil Roberts
and I found the first confirmed breeding record of Greater Flamingo for Saudi
Arabia. We saw up to 30 adults and two very young juveniles (unable to fly) near
Jubail. Birds have been around all summer with unto 4000 in April and several
hundreds during the entire summer. We did not see any nest mounds although
there are a number of structures that may be nests out on the sabkha. The
juveniles are too small to fly so must have been born at SAF. The record was
sent to Mike Jennings who confirmed it as the first breeding record for the
Kingdom but mentioned nest building had been seen in a nearby area previously
but no confirmed breeding.
