Ras Al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Dubai, UAE.
Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary represents an enclave of relative wilderness amidst swirling traffic and sprawling urban infrastructure. Located just as the name in Arabic suggests - at the Cape of the Creek, it is among the few urban protected areas of the world. Ras Al Khor is also home to about 500 greater flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus), which has become something of a mascot for Dubai's Wild Life protection program. Ras Al Khor is home to more than 20,000 birds of 67 species, making it an ideal spot for eco-friendly tourists. Although not officially so, Ras Al Khor is also fondly called as the Dubai bird park. Renowned for its pink flamingos that steal the show in winter, you can also spot reef herons, great egrets, cormorants, black-winged stilts, grey herons, osprey, sandpipers and many such birds here.
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There are two viewing spots : "The Flamingo Hide" and "The Mangrove Hide", it is open October to March 7:30 - 17:30 hr, April to September 06:00 - 18:00 hr, Fridays 14:00-17:30 hr. Mangrove Hide is also the feeding spot where around 09:30 food is given to the birds. There is no fees to visit the spots.
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My visit on 2nd November, 2019.
Ras Al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Dubai, UAE.
Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary represents an enclave of relative wilderness amidst swirling traffic and sprawling urban infrastructure. Located just as the name in Arabic suggests - at the Cape of the Creek, it is among the few urban protected areas of the world. Ras Al Khor is also home to about 500 greater flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus), which has become something of a mascot for Dubai's Wild Life protection program. Ras Al Khor is home to more than 20,000 birds of 67 species, making it an ideal spot for eco-friendly tourists. Although not officially so, Ras Al Khor is also fondly called as the Dubai bird park. Renowned for its pink flamingos that steal the show in winter, you can also spot reef herons, great egrets, cormorants, black-winged stilts, grey herons, osprey, sandpipers and many such birds here.
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There are two viewing spots : "The Flamingo Hide" and "The Mangrove Hide", it is open October to March 7:30 - 17:30 hr, April to September 06:00 - 18:00 hr, Fridays 14:00-17:30 hr. Mangrove Hide is also the feeding spot where around 09:30 food is given to the birds. There is no fees to visit the spots.
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My visit on 2nd November, 2019.