Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus passage and winter visitor in low numbers 
arriving at the end of September and recorded occasionally through the winter 
until the third week in April with peaks in November and March. 
Water Pipit An thus spinoletta at GSC three on 1 3 November 1986 and two on 1 and 
8 December 1990. 
Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava one feldegg, 30 March 1987; and three not racially 
identified, 23 September 1989. Surprisingly scarce. 
Grey Wagtail Mo tad lla cinerea three wintering along the Nile mud banks exposed 
due to unusually low water levels, 30 December 1986 and 21 January 1987. 
White Wagtail Motacilla alba common winter visitor from the end of September 
until the end of April with maximum of 77 on 3 January 1987 at a pre-roost 
gathering at GSC. 
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus common breeding resident. 
Rufous Bush Robin Cercotrichas galactotes singles at GSC, 6 May 1987 and 22-23 
April 1989. 
Robin Erithacus rubecula winter visitor in small numbers to GSC and other 
suitable gardens on the island. Earliest arrival date is 18 November 1990, with a 
slight increase in December and again in March with final record on 30 March 
1987. 
Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos up to three recorded in the very limited 
period 25 March to 13 April. 
Bluethroat Luscinia svecica one or two at GSC, 27 November to 4 December 1986. 
Probably under recorded. 
Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros winter visitor in small numbers, mainly to 
GSC, from 26 October to 21 March. 
Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus passage migrant, mainly at GSC; in spring from 
4 March to 26 April with the bulk in April and in autumn from 22 September to 
10 November with the bulk in November. 
Stonechat Saxicola torquata winter visitor in small numbers to GSC from 4 
November until mid-February, with the bulk of the records in November and 
December. 
Isabelline Wheatear Oenantlie isabellina early migrants recorded on 28 January 
and 4 February 1987 and singles, 17, 23 and 24 March 1988; always on the most 
open, driest areas of the golf course. 
Wheatear Oenantlie oenantlie common spring migrant between 17 and 31 March, 
with an average of 10 per day and maximum of 15 on 26 March 1987. The only 
autumn record concerns three, 17 September 1989. 
Pied Wheatear Oenantlie pleschanka one female, 31 March 1987. 
Black-eared Wheatear Oenantlie hispanica one, 21 March and five, 25 March 1987; 
all of the melanoleuca subspecies. 
Desert Wheatear Oenantlie deserti one female, 31 March to 1 April 1987. 
Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius one on roof-tops in Zamalek, 19 March 
1989. 
Blackbird Turdus merula formerly only a winter visitor to Egypt, this species has 
been breeding in the Nile Delta since 1984. Wintering at GSC and other sites on 
the island is now obscured by probable breeding pairs at a number of localities. 
Following is a year-by-year summary of this species' status: 
1987 - A pair at GSC from 18 February with the male in alarm on 25 
February, in song on 6 April, collecting nest material on 28 April and last 
recorded on 2 May. Singles in Zamalek gardens, 5 November and 17 
December. 
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