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| | UAE - The Official Web Site - Nature - Twitchers' Guide |
 | | On 16th May, Mushrif Palace Gardens produced a nightingale, a sedge warbler, 25 marsh, 35 willow and 5 olivaceous warblers, 12 spotted flycatchers, a male and a female golden oriole, 3 red-backed shrikes and 2 lesser grey shrikes. |
 | | Down at Khalidiya were another redstart, a whinchat, 30 marsh, 3 sedge, one great reed, one barred and 40 willow warblers, as well as a whitethroat, 8 spotted flycatchers, 5 red-backed and 2 lesser grey shrikes and a golden oriole. |
 | | In the adjacent pivot fields, were a squacco heron, 12 cattle egrets, 2 glossy ibis, 7 ruff, 2 little ringed plovers, 2 spotted flycatcher, a common whitethroat, 3 blue-cheeked bee-eaters, 2 hoopoes, 3 sedge warblers, 12 marsh warblers, 3 whinchats, 2 willow warblers, a lesser grey shrike and a red-backed shrike. |
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