{"id":1103706,"date":"2018-08-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=e829f3ce61d1583d3c601a35e2e96c27"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:33:59","slug":"birding-the-abha-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/birding-the-abha-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding the Abha Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Abha area recently we went to Azeeza to look for Blandford\u2019s Short-toed Larks as birds had been seen here by us in previous years. The area has had some building and construction work done in the last couple of years and despite quite extensive searching we failed to find any birds.<\/p>\n

Very little occurs in this relatively barren and stony area, with Long-billed Pipit and Common Kestrel the only birds of note seen. Luckily we found a new site for Blandford\u2019s Lark (see earlier post) so were not so disappointed with our failure. After this we went to look for Olive Pigeon in a step sided valley where birds had been seen some years previously by local birders but again our luck was out.<\/p>\n

We did see some good birds here including Arabian Woodpecker and Arabian Serin. Other good birds included Dusky Turtle Dove and adult and Juvenile Red-rumped Swallow that clearly breed nearby.<\/p>\n

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Common Kestrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Arabian Woodpeckers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Arabian Serin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-rumped Swallow – juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-rumped Swallow – adult<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Abha area recently we went to Azeeza to look for Blandford\u2019s Short-toed Larks as birds had been seen here by us in previous years. The area has had some building and construction work done in the last couple of years and despite quite extensive searching we failed to find any birds. Very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-anXfNNfkTIA\/V68CCKZ1qwI\/AAAAAAAAZHE\/5PSM6Lv1gIQlVXmd_IDnHWdH5_n-u8n3QCEw\/s1600\/Common_Kestrel.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5602,3981,778,6773,787],"class_list":["post-1103706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-long-billed-pipit","tag-red-rumped-swallow","tag-serin","tag-short-toed-lark","tag-turtle-dove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}