United Arab Emirates

The UAE's east coast, where Khor Kalba straddles the Sharjah–Fujairah border on the Gulf of Oman, is the country's only point of open ocean access outside the Arabian Gulf. Weekly to fortnightly trips run 35–58 kilometres offshore into the Gulf of Oman's summer monsoon upwelling, targeting the Near Threatened Jouanin's Petrel — with counts exceeding 600 birds in a single trip during the October–November peak — alongside Persian Shearwater in similarly large numbers, Wilson's and the rarely identified Swinhoe's Storm-Petrels, and an increasingly regular Sooty Shearwater.