{"id":2028958,"date":"2018-06-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=8f761c56e30a64210f45fcb09ac5b1b6"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:33:04","slug":"summertime-birding-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/summertime-birding-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime birding – Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birding the Jubail area in June gave a few surprising migrants including Whinchat, European Bee-eater, Red-backed Shrike, Barn Swallow and Sand Martin. A Western Cattle Egret was also a surprise as they are a winter species that has normally departed by this time of year.<\/p>\n

A few summer plumage Squacco Herons were also present showing for the fifth year that they probably breed at the site, although no proof of this has been found yet. White-cheeked and Little Terns are back in large numbers for the breeding season and will remain around until September. Resident Gull-billed and Caspian Terns were also present in much smaller numbers to the previous two tern species.<\/p>\n

Over 2000 Greater Flamingo remain on one of the large sabkha areas where the first breeding in Saudi Arabia was noted a couple of years ago. Large numbers of singing Caspian Reed Warblers were present in the reed beds singing in competition with Indian (Clamorous) Reed Warblers.<\/p>\n

Little Bitterns were seen in flight several times as were a group of twelve Grey Herons.<\/p>\n

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Little Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-backed Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spotted Flycatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Squacco Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Cattle Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Birding the Jubail area in June gave a few surprising migrants including Whinchat, European Bee-eater, Red-backed Shrike, Barn Swallow and Sand Martin. A Western Cattle Egret was also a surprise as they are a winter species that has normally departed by this time of year. A few summer plumage Squacco Herons were also present showing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[705,7761,2621,747,1634,832,1652,1657,1260,8942,2209,2221,982,3108,1106,883,1065,2246],"class_list":["post-2028958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-barn-swallow","tag-bee-eater","tag-bittern","tag-caspian-tern","tag-cattle-egret","tag-european-bee-eater","tag-greater-flamingo","tag-grey-heron","tag-little-bittern","tag-little-tern","tag-red-backed-shrike","tag-reed-warbler","tag-sand-martin","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-spotted-flycatcher","tag-squacco-heron","tag-western-cattle-egret","tag-whinchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028958","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=2028958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}