Bird photography on the Red Sea coast near Marsa Alam, Egypt

Last Updated on December 20, 2021 by Kevin Agar

 

Another holiday on the Red Sea coast near to Marsa Alam, where I can photograph the passing migrants and my wife can snorkel and do some underwater photography.
We stayed at two different hotels which gave a slightly different reef for my wife and different gardens for me to walk around.
Here is a collection of some of the birds I photographed plus a few shots of flowers, butterflies, moon, sunrise and sunset.
Most of the birds I’d seen before but I did manage one new lifer, the Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva.

As well as these photographs I also saw a flock of Northern Pintail, a couple of Grey Heron, Kingfisher, Greater Sand Plover, lots of Martins and Swallows passing though, a Hoopoe and an unknown Owl flying into land from the sea, so no idea where it came from.

 

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Laughing Dove, Spilopelia senegalensis

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Plain Tiger or African Queen Butterfly, Danaus chrysippus

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The buff coloured flanks confused me for a while but it seems to be a variable that occurs on birds from South Africa and also Ethiopia

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Tree Pipit, Anthus trivialis

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Spanish Sparrow, Passer hispaniolensis

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Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba

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Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus

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Lesser Whitethroat, Sylvia curruca

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Sunrise

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Little Egret, Egretta garzetta

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Redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus

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Redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus

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Laughing Dove, Spilopelia senegalensis

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Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis

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Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis

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Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis

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Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis

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Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis

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Redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus

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Osprey, Pandion haliaetus

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Sunrise

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Osprey, Pandion haliaetus

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Caspian Tern, Hydroprogne caspia

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Caspian Tern, Hydroprogne caspia

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Caspian Tern, Hydroprogne caspia

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Caspian Tern, Hydroprogne caspia

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Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra

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Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra

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Striated Heron, Butorides striata

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Striated Heron, Butorides striata

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Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus

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Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus

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Black-crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax

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Originally thought it was a Redstart but it had white outer tail feathers and no red rump. After research found it was a Red-breasted Flycatcher, a new lifer for me.

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Red-breasted Flycatcher, Ficedula parva

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Red-breasted Flycatcher, Ficedula parva

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Redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus

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Red-throated Pipit, Anthus cervinus

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Red-throated Pipit, Anthus cervinus

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Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa striata

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Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa striata

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Northern Wheatear, Oenanthe oenanthe

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Brown-necked Raven, Corvus ruficollis

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Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula

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Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula

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Sunrise

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Moon

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Sunset

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