It is squeezed between the birth of Charles Darwin—something, or someone, of a personal hero and St. Valentine’s Day. The first is the Common Starling, a short-tailed, dark bird with a rather slender, yellow, very sharp bill and about 22 centimeters long. The latter is a small, short-billed wader that in winter is a rather uniform mottled buff with a streaked breast. Named after a small coastal town in southern England and not the popular convenience food, it is one of Egypt’s largest terns at 40 centimeters long. Last year I noted Striped Hawkmoth, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, the sumptuous as well as spectacular Oleander Hawkmoth and the Elephant Hawkmoth.

Source: Egypt Today February 12, 2018 15:56 UTC