I recieved this email from Dr. Naji AlZaid regarding the flamingo picture post -

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Dear Q,

” Perhaps Kuwaits most popular migrant visitors are the flamingoes. These
elegant creatures are familiar visitors to kuwait in the spring and autumn
and infact used to breed here. Breeding pairs were recorded in Kuwait in
1922, but have not been recorded since. They are bird of the tropical and
subtropical regions and the commonest, the Greater falmingo, has established
a huge breeding colony at lake Reziah in Iran. Most of the members of this
colony go to India or Pakistan for the winter, but between five and twelve
thousand of them winter on Al Fao peninsula at shatt Al Arab. The ones in
kuwait are most probably from there, although this is not certain.
Falmingoes also breed in the Meditereranean, but they are extremely fussy
about conditions they require. They need lots of biological activity in the
water to provide plenty of food. They can be found on mudflats, lagoons and
shallow lakes, but even at favoured breeding sites their breeding activity
often irregular and elsewhere infrequent. Non-breeding flamingoes may well
be present all year round in winter area, and it is perfectly possible that
some do occasionally breed in kuwait”
From Discovering Kuwaits Wildlife; David Clayton and kieth Wells 1987


Naji S Al-Zaid
Professor
Physiology Dept.
Faculty Of Medicine
Kuwait University.
KUWAIT

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Thanks Dr. Naji, as always, a wonderful source of information!

The only information I found when looking up the words flamingo and kuwait was -

the bird flu case in Kuwait last year where a flamingo was infected supposedly!