In pictures: 42 bird species visited Oman's wetland reserve in 2017

Muscat: Some 42 species of up to half a million birds were recorded at the Al Wusta Wetlands Reserve in 2017, official numbers have revealed.
The birds visit the Sultanate in winter during their migration path and there are more shorebirds than any other species—over 410,000. For 18 shorebird species, numbers wintering at Barr Al Hikman exceeded one per cent of their flyway population, according to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs (MECA) study in 2017.