Coming out of the house to go to work this morning, the squawking stopped me. Looking up and sure enough found one of the regular green parrot visitors hanging upside down looking at me from the roofing tiles. They seem to have taken residence, but am not sure if they’re actually nesting there yet and I’m not going to disturb them.
Of course we have sparrows nesting in various locations under those tiles all around the house as well. The numbers have increased tremendously since the garden now is taking shape, and they have trees and bugs to eat aplenty.
Not to mention the newly discovered other slithering reptiles! Yep, we seem to now have two resident snakes as well which look like desert snakes. The bug people have come ’round but couldn’t find any evidence, however the pool guy swears that he’s been seeing one particular fellow for the last 2 years in the pump room.
He of course didn’t think it’s that important to tell anyone. I only discovered this fact when I saw how hesitant he was at entering the pump room at night to switch on the pool lights!
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Ha that’s a great photo Mahmood (and that hellcat of a spider, Chrisamillion – shudder!)
Ash
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Wow! Those are verrrry cool photos! Suitable for framing.
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I saw a similar green parrot playing around on the flyscreen of my bedroom window two days ago. It flew off by the time I got my camera out to take a snap. But hopefully I’ll see some more as they pass through.
Does anyone know where they come from?
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I understand the parrots are leftover from the Portuguese.
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Not at all, they migrate through Bahrain every year, the green ones are from India, I have seen others who might have come originally from Africa.
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Mahmood, any of those snakes in Bahrain poisonous? Do you have those huge camel spiders they have in Saudi?
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these are rear-fanged, and yes they are poisonous. But I don’t know much about them, especially that I haven’t seen them myself but for second-hand descriptions.
I don’t know about the spiders. They sound horrific.
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These might be the birds. I am no expert on these creatures but I think they are awesome to have around. I do know they like sunflower seeds Mahmood.
33) – 45 1525 Psittacula eupatria Alexandrine Parakeet (Introduced ? )
34) – 45 1527 Psittacula krameri Rose-ringed Parakeet (Introduced ? )
The names come from http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/5267//checklist.html and it has the birds as a possible introduced species in Bahrain.
If you do a google pic search you can see several of them.
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wow…thats great. I didn’t think that Bahrain had much biodiversity. I only ever saw parrots and sparrows occasionally. There are plenty of pigeons though! Also around the island there are heaps of beetles and insects. I’ve seen a couple of small green snakes around…they seem harmelss, I wouldn’t count on it though!
To contrast, here in Australia…just about everything can kill you! Here’s one of my former neighbours (not like the TV show!)
[img]http://www.chrisamillion.com/xangapics/spider.jpg[/img]
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I wish I could tell you more about these little green feathered birds. I suppose it is possible that the two have also interbred to form a “sub species”. I was told years ago that these parrots had been brought to Bahrain by the Portuguese but I am not 100% sure about this as a fact.
The one person in Bahrain who should know for sure is Dr Saeed A. Mohamed.
The person who runs this site http://www.bahrainbirds.com/ might also have a better understanding of these little guys as well.
sagnutty
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These parrots look very similiar to Monk parrots. We have a colony here in New York City. They are not native to New York but are believed to have escaped from a crate at the airport during the 1950s. They cannot live elsewhere in the state as our winters are too harsh so they keep warm by huddling next to big warm buildings, which New York City has plenty of.
Aliandra
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Both look remarkably similar that I can’t tell the difference. If you can, please help! I’ve uploaded 3 more this morning. one, two and three.
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Yeah, in Saudi they have these spiders that are about the size of a grown man’s outstretched hand. They can jump a fair bit as well. I lived in the US Southwest for years and always had to deal with the poisonous snakes and spiders.
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Hahaha 😀 That’s really cute !!
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i keep forgetting to put my name .. ++ECHO++
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it’s a pretty simple thing to register, then the system will remember to sign your name on every post.