Frying gently on your hotel sunbed, looking out on Tala Bay in the Gulf of Aqaba, your daily companions - bobbing on the buoys which demark the swimming area - are White Eyed Gulls (Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus). I read that this is one of the rarest species of gull in the world with the population now reduced to approx 5,000 birds. There it's a daily sighting: imagine if one blew in to No.2 Reservoir at Audenshaw, the twitcherati would go beresk. Such is the nature of birdwatching.
What you doing lying on a sunbed when you should be out in the field witnessing probably the worlds most amazing migration spectacle at this time of year ??
-- Edited by pete berry on Sunday 30th of March 2014 09:35:17 PM
Frying gently on your hotel sunbed, looking out on Tala Bay in the Gulf of Aqaba, your daily companions - bobbing on the buoys which demark the swimming area - are White Eyed Gulls (Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus). I read that this is one of the rarest species of gull in the world with the population now reduced to approx 5,000 birds. There it's a daily sighting: imagine if one blew in to No.2 Reservoir at Audenshaw, the twitcherati would go beresk. Such is the nature of birdwatching.
