{"id":1559349,"date":"2017-07-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=d835fa64217406c735e71fba676a168c"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:22:47","slug":"late-red-backed-shrikes-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/late-red-backed-shrikes-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Red-backed Shrikes – Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been able to go to Jubail a few times recently, as it was the Eid holidays and on every visit in late June until 1 July I saw a number of Red-backed Shrikes including a stunning adult male on 1 July.<\/p>\n

This is late for the species as they nearly all pass through the Eastern Province in May with the peak in the early part of the second week. I saw a bird at the end of June last year at the same site so maybe they are getting later in their movements. These were the only migrants I saw apart from plenty of Barn Swallows and Sand Martins.<\/p>\n

Breeding was evident with lots of juvenile Kentish Plovers and plenty of young and adult White-cheeked Terns present of every visit.<\/p>\n

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Red-backed Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kentish Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-cheeked Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-cheeked Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I have been able to go to Jubail a few times recently, as it was the Eid holidays and on every visit in late June until 1 July I saw a number of Red-backed Shrikes including a stunning adult male on 1 July. This is late for the species as they nearly all pass through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[705,1025,2209,982,1318],"class_list":["post-1559349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-barn-swallow","tag-kentish-plover","tag-red-backed-shrike","tag-sand-martin","tag-white-cheeked-tern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559349","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=1559349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}