{"id":1878816,"date":"2018-03-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1e09916a0882e094b7958d0b4cf82908"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:27:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:27:57","slug":"abyssinian-roller-and-singing-bush-lark-phils-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/abyssinian-roller-and-singing-bush-lark-phils-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Abyssinian Roller and Singing Bush Lark \u2013 Phil\u2019s Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the southwest of the Kingdom this winter I went to Phil\u2019s Fields which is a large pivot irrigation set up with three large fields. It is an excellent place to see good birds and I always see Singing Bush Lark and Zitting Cisticola there, and this visit was no exception.<\/p>\n

More unusual birds seen this trip included African Stonechat and Abyssinian Roller, both of which I have not recorded at the location and probably only occur in winter as this was my first winter visit to the site.<\/p>\n

Western Cattle Egret, Isabelline Wheatear, Green Bee-eater and Indian Silverbill were a few other more common species seen there.<\/p>\n

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Abyssinian Roller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Silverbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Silverbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Stonechat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Green Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Singing Bush Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Singing Bush Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Isabelline Wheatear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the southwest of the Kingdom this winter I went to Phil\u2019s Fields which is a large pivot irrigation set up with three large fields. It is an excellent place to see good birds and I always see Singing Bush Lark and Zitting Cisticola there, and this visit was no exception. More unusual birds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[9323,9004,7761,1634,2473,827,1100,1065,2389],"class_list":["post-1878816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-abyssinian-roller","tag-african-silverbill","tag-bee-eater","tag-cattle-egret","tag-indian-silverbill","tag-isabelline-wheatear","tag-stonechat","tag-western-cattle-egret","tag-zitting-cisticola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878816","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=1878816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}