{"id":1225580,"date":"2016-11-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ce212fd9e80995a24d107764d8f17698"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:09:28","slug":"a-few-herons-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-few-herons-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"A few herons \u2013 Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Jubail area recently I saw a few interesting herons. Many Grey Herons and Western Great Egrets were flying around but also in amongst them was a single Purple Heron. Numbers of Squacco Heron are also increasing as winter arrives with many juvenile birds.<\/p>\n

Wader numbers are decreasing but the odd Greater Sand Plover can still be found amongst the commoner Little Stints and Kentish Plovers.<\/p>\n

Otherwise it is resident species that are making up the numbers with Indian (Clamorous) Reed Warblers being seen in good number as are Grey-headed Swamphens.<\/p>\n

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Western Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Greater Sand Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Indian Reed Warbler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-headed Swamphen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Jubail area recently I saw a few interesting herons. Many Grey Herons and Western Great Egrets were flying around but also in amongst them was a single Purple Heron. Numbers of Squacco Heron are also increasing as winter arrives with many juvenile birds. Wader numbers are decreasing but the odd Greater Sand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[750,4838,1657,8407,1025,881,882,883],"class_list":["post-1225580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-great-egret","tag-greater-sand-plover","tag-grey-heron","tag-indian-reed-warbler","tag-kentish-plover","tag-little-stint","tag-purple-heron","tag-squacco-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225580","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=1225580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}