{"id":2052278,"date":"2018-08-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1a13779d1dc7464b7cb628512c026dc8"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:34:18","slug":"bottom-of-raydah-escarpment-in-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/bottom-of-raydah-escarpment-in-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottom of Raydah Escarpment in summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at the bottom of the Raydah Escarpment in late June and the number of birds was significantly less than in May. There were a lot less African Grey Hornbill and Violet-backed Starlings but White-throated Bee-eaters had arrived that were not present in early May.<\/p>\n

The number of Bruce\u2019s Green Pigeons remained high and a few Ruppell\u2019s Weavers were building nests. A single Black-crowned Tchagra was seen at a location where I saw my only other sighting in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Grey-headed Kingfishers were seen and heard a number of times with one bird allowing some reasonable photos to be taken of it.<\/p>\n

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Grey-headed Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-headed Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Bruce’s Green Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bruce’s Green Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Long-billed Pipit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-throated Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-throated Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was at the bottom of the Raydah Escarpment in late June and the number of birds was significantly less than in May. There were a lot less African Grey Hornbill and Violet-backed Starlings but White-throated Bee-eaters had arrived that were not present in early May. The number of Bruce\u2019s Green Pigeons remained high and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5445,5437,5386,6186,5602,8411,494,5576,9002],"class_list":["post-2052278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-african-grey-hornbill","tag-black-crowned-tchagra","tag-grey-headed-kingfisher","tag-hornbill","tag-long-billed-pipit","tag-ruppells-weaver","tag-starling","tag-violet-backed-starling","tag-white-throated-bee-eater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052278","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=2052278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}