{"id":2026850,"date":"2018-07-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=9ed85588fd6447382d0c78cb2cb87c17"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:33:01","slug":"indian-reef-heron-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/indian-reef-heron-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Reef Heron – Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Jubail area recently we came across a good number of Indian Reef HeronEgretta gularis. The species is a common, mostly resident coastal breeder that can be seen in good numbers.<\/p>\n

Most birds seen are white morph birds but about 10% are of the grey or black morph. They occur on all coasts of the Kingdom but are seldom recorded inland. I have seen nests on offshore islands in the Arabian Gulf where birds breed in the summer months.<\/p>\n

They often occur with other egrets, mainly Little Egrets and Great Egrets and normally stay close to shore to fish.<\/p>\n

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Indian Reef Heron – Egretta gularis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Indian Reef Heron – Egretta gularis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Indian Reef Heron – Egretta gularis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Jubail area recently we came across a good number of Indian Reef HeronEgretta gularis. The species is a common, mostly resident coastal breeder that can be seen in good numbers. Most birds seen are white morph birds but about 10% are of the grey or black morph. They occur on all coasts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2639,9528,1668],"class_list":["post-2026850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-egretta-gularis","tag-indian-reef-hero","tag-little-egret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026850","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=2026850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}