Interesting bird records for Lebanon including a Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius, two Red Crossbills Loxia curvirostra and the first records of Macqueen's Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii and Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus for over 58 and 70 years respectively

摘要

During 2016, monitoring of illegal killing of birds was adopted by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL-BirdLife Lebanon) and implemented by us in cooperation with local communities. This project enabled us to discover two new species for Lebanon and to record some species that had not been seen in Lebanon for many years.