Rock Thrush

The Blue-capped Rock-thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus is a species of chat. This thrush-like Old World flycatcher breeds in the foothills of the Himalayas and winters in the hill forests of southern India.
The male is bright blue and black on the upperparts with a prominent white wing mirror. The underside is rufous brown. The female is dark olive and appears barred on the underside.
Like thrushes´, they fly up into trees and tend to freeze when disturbed.
It is a summer visitor in parts of Afghanistan and along the Himalayas from Pakistan to Arunachal Pradesh. In summer it is found in pine forests and hill slopes. In winter it is found in dense canopied forests.
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Location:Al Khhore Garden
Country: Qatar
Distance : 45 Kmtr. (from Doha)

Socotra Cormorant

Socotra Cormorant -My first Bird listing
The Socotra Cormorant (Phalacrocorax nigrogularis) is an almost entirely black bird. In breeding condition, its forecrown has a purplish gloss and its upperparts have a slaty-green tinge, there are a few white plumes around the eye and neck and a few white streaks at the rump. Its legs and feet are black and its gular skin blackish. All these deviations from pure black are less marked outside the breeding season. Wing breadths of 275-310 cm have been recorded.
There is little information on this species' foraging or diet. Like all cormorants its dives for its food. Older reports suggest that it can stay submerged for up to 3 minutes, which is high for a cormorant and suggests that it would be capable of deep diving. However there are also reports of forgaging in flocks, and this is more usually seen in cormorants that feed in mid water.
The birds are highly gregarious, with roosting flocks of 250,000 having been reported, and flocks of up to 25,000 at sea.
Some authors (e.g. Johnsgaard) place this species, along with a number of other related cormorants, in genus Leucocarbo.
Since 2000, this species has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, on the grounds of its small range (only a small number of breeding locations are known, with estimates ranging from 9-13). Its number are suspected to be undergoing a continuous and rapid decline because of human development near its nesting colonies; a recent estimate of the world population put it at about half a million. The only nesting colony remaining in the Gulf is one of about 30,000 birds on the Bahraini Hawar Islands off the coast of Oman, and this is a Ramsar listed site. The birds may also be affected by oil pollution at sea. During the First Gulf War images of badly oiled cormorants from the Gulf were regularly shown in the western media, and although the Great Cormorant is also found in the Gulf, it is likely that many of these were Socotra
This picture was taken from "Jail pond" Doha - Qatar,
cormorants.courtesy-Wikipedia

Location:Jail Pond

Country: Qatar

Distance : 25Kmtr. (From Doha)