{"id":1548674,"date":"2017-07-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=2a4ceb78b2c46815159dd508ccb325bc"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:19:57","slug":"cream-coloured-coursers-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/cream-coloured-coursers-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Cream Coloured Coursers \u2013 Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding Jubail with Phil we came across two juvenile Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor a locally common breeding resident of all scrub desert areas, but a species not often seen due to its habitat preferences. This was the first time I had seen the species in Jubail although Phil had seen them there once before.<\/p>\n

They occur throughout Saudi Arabia and in the Eastern Province, where I live, and breed in the northern plains and on the Dibdibah north of 27 degrees N, preferring lightly vegetated gravel and stony desert. During January and February a northerly movement takes place across a broad front and in July to early September post breeding dispersal occurs with juveniles accompanying adults in small flocks.<\/p>\n

Nine were seen together at the edge of Dammam Airport Pools on 8th July 2011.<\/p>\n

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Cream-coloured Courser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cream-coloured Courser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cream-coloured Courser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cream-coloured Courser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding Jubail with Phil we came across two juvenile Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor a locally common breeding resident of all scrub desert areas, but a species not often seen due to its habitat preferences. This was the first time I had seen the species in Jubail although Phil had seen them there once before. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3426,3108],"class_list":["post-1548674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-cream-coloured-courser","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548674","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=1548674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}