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Not a common sighting in South Sinai, even during migration :-)
The Stone Curlew, Eurasian Thick-knee, or Eurasian Stone-curlew
As far as I could see there were 13 of these in the second picture.
Fabulously camouflaged...practically invisible on the dry soil and leaf litter ...
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Burhinidae
Genus:
"It is a medium-sized wader with a strong yellow and black beak, large yellow ...
Perfectly mimetizing with the ground colors and very still next to her parents.
It is a medium-sized wader with a strong yellow and black beak, large yellow ...
Wader birds with a strong yellow and black beak, large yellow eyes (which give ...
These goggle-eyed birds sure know how to blend in. To avoid predators, these ...
The Stone Curlew, Eurasian Thick-knee, or Eurasian Stone-curlew (
It is a fairly large wader though is mid-sized by the standards of its family. ...
