{"id":1794989,"date":"2017-12-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=2f51e26e13cdce9848d1dde5045bf955"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:27:28","slug":"winter-visitors-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/winter-visitors-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter visitors \u2013 Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding Jubail recently I have come across a number of winter visitors to the region. Common Kestrel is an uncommon passage migrant but numbers build up in the winter months when they can be seen in various locations.<\/p>\n

Isabelline Wheatear numbers also increase as winter wears on and they can be seen along the edge of any habitat where at least some vegetation is present. Squacco Heron can be seen throughout the year but again numbers build up significantly during the winter with hundreds of birds seen on some occasions.<\/p>\n

Duck are more difficult to see and photograph as they are very timid, but I have seen a few Northern Shoveller in recent weeks in various sites.<\/p>\n

Other birds seen but not photographed include Montagu’s Harrier, Pied Kingfisher and White-throated Kingfisher.<\/p>\n

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Common Kestrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Isabelline Wheatear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Northern Shoveller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Squacco Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding Jubail recently I have come across a number of winter visitors to the region. Common Kestrel is an uncommon passage migrant but numbers build up in the winter months when they can be seen in various locations. Isabelline Wheatear numbers also increase as winter wears on and they can be seen along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[827,828,7787,1160,2618,883,536,7140],"class_list":["post-1794989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-isabelline-wheatear","tag-kestrel","tag-kingfisher","tag-montagus-harrier","tag-pied-kingfisher","tag-squacco-heron","tag-wheatear","tag-white-throated-kingfisher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794989","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=1794989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}