Spotted Crake Porzana porzana 
Zabeel, 19 December. Rare winter 
record. 
Little Crake Porzana parva 
three Emirates Golf Course 17-20 
September. 5th UAE record. C 
Richardson. 
White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus 
Jebel AIL 20 January 1995. Third 
record. S James. 
Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius 
Mirawah Island, Abu Dhabi, 10 
September. First record for UAE, 
and second for Arabia. M Skakuj. 
First was in Bahrain in August 1992 
(cf. Nightingale & Hill 1993). 
Caspian Plover Charadrius asiatica 
three Al Wathba, 3 November. 
Sociable Plover Vanellus gregaria 
Fujairah, 11 November. Eighth 
record. S Asmnall. 
Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris 
regular passage, Mirawah Island, 
Abu Dhabi, late August-late 
September; maximum 603, 18 
September. Highest ever numbers 
in UAE and Arabia. One, Khor 
Kalba, 15 September. Unusual 
locality. 
Red Knot Calidris canutus 
Mirawah Island, Abu Dhabi, 23 
August. Third record. / Lontowski 
Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis 
Dhabiya, 9 September. First record 
for UAE. I Lycett 
Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta 
Ramtha Tip, 16 September, six Al 
Ain camel track, 28 September. 
Ninth and tenth records. E 
Hirschfeld, S Aspinall. 
Great Snipe Gallinago media 
Al Ghar lake, 2 February 1995. 
White-tailed Plover Vanellus leucura 
up to seven Al Ain, from 1 
December, up to eight Ramtha, 6 
December-February 1995. 
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