Whilst birding Khafra Marsh in July we came across a juvenile Black-winged Kite, shortly after seeing an adult bird. Later we saw another adult in a slightly different location. This suggests the birds are breeding at the location again, the fourth year at least they have bred here. The first record for the Eastern Province was only found on 17 April 2012, but since then has become more common with birds seen in almost every month and every year. Rather than being a vagrant to the Eastern Province its status has changed to a scarce visitor. All birds sub-specifically identified in the east of the Kingdom are the eastern subspecies Elanus caeruleus vociferous a subspecies that occurs from Pakistan east to southern & eastern China, Indochina and the Malay Peninsula.
