{"id":1127045,"date":"2018-09-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=177e652406710346f56c81d628b3fc74"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:36:18","slug":"birding-the-taleaa-valley-abha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/birding-the-taleaa-valley-abha\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding the Talea\u2019a Valley – Abha"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Talea\u2019a Valley near Abha is in the Asir mountains in southwest Saudi Arabia and is a large upland wadi with stony ground and acacia trees growing in the bottom. It has had some good birds seen in it in recent years including Arabian Magpie, although this species has not been seen there for many years.<\/p>\n

Recently Blandfords Lark has been seen there and on our last visit we also found the scarce African Pipit. A bird was seen song flighting over a rough area of short grass and stones and is some distance from any other sighting of the species. Other good birds seen in the area included very good numbers of Cinnamon-breasted Buntings.<\/p>\n

The valley is hot and dry and any area of water attracts a steady stream of birds in the summer coming down to dry so are worth looking at if found. Small numbers of the endemic Arabian Wheatear and Arabian Woodpecker have also been seen regularly in this valley making it an excellent birding site. Ruppell’s Weaver is a common resident of this valleyand can always been seen in good numbers at anytime of year.<\/p>\n

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African Pipit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Pipit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Pipit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cinnamon-breasted Bunting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ruppell’s Weaver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Talea\u2019a Valley near Abha is in the Asir mountains in southwest Saudi Arabia and is a large upland wadi with stony ground and acacia trees growing in the bottom. It has had some good birds seen in it in recent years including Arabian Magpie, although this species has not been seen there for many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6HBo290u5Og\/V7g2fy-HF_I\/AAAAAAAAZLk\/8Cj0uQ8GBgMPxYK5Qrj26mm9IwFHfT2pgCLcB\/s1600\/African_Pipit1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5632,5377,8411,3108],"class_list":["post-1127045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-arabian-wheatear","tag-cinnamon-breasted-bunting","tag-ruppells-weaver","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127045","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=1127045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}