Euan Ferguson was in Saudi Arabia with a couple of
other birdwatchers in spring 2017, conducting an environmental survey and found
a Booted Eagle on 26 April 2017 at Dumat in the northwest of the Kingdom. The
species was considered to be entirely a passage migrant but in recent years there
have been a number of winter records and its status has changed to a scarce
passage migrant and winter visitor. Euan’s bird was at a classic passage
migrant time and was probably just passing through. I thank Euan for sending me
the details of this bird and allowing me to use his excellent photo on my
website.
