Recently I located a White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus leucurus flying over the Waste Water lake. The bird did not stop and flew off towards the percolation pond but I could not relocate it. The species is unusual in Dhahran and the first time I have seen at the Waste Water Lake although I have seen on the spray fields and percolation pond previously. Migratory populations breed from Turkey and Jordan to southern Kazakhstan and winter 4,000 km south and southwest in Sudan, Pakistan, India and increasingly Arabia. It is a rare breeding resident, scarce winter visitor and uncommon passage migrant. They prefer brackish coastal pools, shallow tidal inlets, rainwater pools and wastewater lagoons where they feed on mainly insects and other invertebrates.
