{"id":1488819,"date":"2017-05-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=9f9d1e78238493d8fb439e2078bae252"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:18:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:18:26","slug":"african-birds-at-the-bottom-of-the-raydah-escarpment-abha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/african-birds-at-the-bottom-of-the-raydah-escarpment-abha\/","title":{"rendered":"African birds at the bottom of the Raydah Escarpment – Abha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the lower areas of the Raydah Escarpment in late March I saw a number of African species. Birds seen included African Grey Hornbill, Violet-backed Starling, Black-crowned Tchagra, Bruce\u2019s Green Pigeon and White-browed Coucal.<\/p>\n

Bruce\u2019s Green Pigeon is an interesting species as it only eats the fruit of a single type of fig tree. No White-throated Bee-eaters or Grey-headed Kingfishers were located so maybe we were too early for these birds to have arrived back from Africa. A few passerine migrants were also seen including a number of Common Blackcap.<\/p>\n

Resident species seen included Blackstart as well as Arabian Green Bee-eater and endemics recorded included the scarce Arabian Waxbill and the commoner Arabian Serin.<\/p>\n

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Bruce Green Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-browed Coucal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bruce Green Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bruce Green Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bruce Green Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Common Chiffchaff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tristrams Starling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blackstart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the lower areas of the Raydah Escarpment in late March I saw a number of African species. Birds seen included African Grey Hornbill, Violet-backed Starling, Black-crowned Tchagra, Bruce\u2019s Green Pigeon and White-browed Coucal. Bruce\u2019s Green Pigeon is an interesting species as it only eats the fruit of a single type of fig tree. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5445,8280,8385,5437,2556,8783,776,5386,6186,494,5600,5576,8782],"class_list":["post-1488819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-african-grey-hornbill","tag-arabian-green-bee-eater","tag-arabian-waxbill","tag-black-crowned-tchagra","tag-blackcap","tag-bruce-green-pigeon","tag-chiffchaff","tag-grey-headed-kingfisher","tag-hornbill","tag-starling","tag-tristrams-starling","tag-violet-backed-starling","tag-white-browed-coucal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488819","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=1488819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}