A Kuwaiti Environment Lens team member, Rashid Al-Hajji, stated today that Kuwait is one of the most diverse countries for birds, with 415 species of migratory birds in their thousands, especially the loon and flamingo.

According to Al-Hajji, bird migration begins in September, when most birds migrate from the north of the globe to Africa, whereas the day in the north gets shorter and the day in the south gets longer. A local Arabic daily reports that birds migrate north for longer days and a better climate, and so forth.

As he explained, the young birds first migrate at night and rest in the morning, as the Kuwaiti people used to hunt birds in the past with traditional methods, such as snares, slings, and hardness, and this was primarily for entertainment, after which the birds were released to continue their migration.

The most famous of these birds are the pigeon, the pomegranate, the awl, the shola, the hamroush, the qaliba, and the wild pigeon, after which the large birds migrate in the morning, such as eagles, storks, pelicans, and raptors.

A number of types of birds migrate to Kuwait after the end of migration, including flamingos, loaches, seabirds, gulls, and small birds such as robins, roars, faded owls, bint al- sabbagh, black hamrushes, ducks, and egrets.

Pharaonic owls lay eggs in January and hatch chicks in February and March, he stated. During the second migration in March, the migratory birds return to the north again for mating and hatching, and some birds begin hatching in the desert of Kuwait, including Umm Salem, Al-Qawbaa, Al-Hamra, the Alexandrian and Indian plover, and many others.