{"id":2055028,"date":"2018-12-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=942286621527b2128e973adfd81e3efd"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:38:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:38:45","slug":"down-below-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/down-below-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Down below – too slow"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago my mate Meidad found a stunning Wallcreeper inside the scenic Ein Avdat gorge – a site where it had not been seen for over 20 years. Many birders connected with it, but I had no time to make it down south till today.<\/p>\n

Before a meeting, Amir and I met up with Meidad and we gave the gorge a thorough scan. Soon after walking in we had great views of the local Bonelli’s Eagle pair. This species is Critically Endangered in Israel, with less than 10 breeding pairs nationally.<\/p>\n

I hope this pair will breed successfully this year. The female is a bit young, about 4 years old – hope she masters the skills of successful breeding soon.<\/p>\n

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The male is a bit older:<\/p>\n

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Several pairs of Eurasian Griffons breed in the gorge – they were busy mating and collected nesting material.<\/p>\n

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There are few sites in Israel that are remote enough to claim ‘pure’ Rock Pigeons – Ein Avdat is one of them. Impossible to tell whether they are actually pure or not – I’m sure the local Bonelli’s Eagles and Lanners don’t care.<\/p>\n

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We searched hard but there was no sign of the bloody Wallcreeper. The sole curve-billed species present was Water Rail:<\/p>\n

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This Grey Wagtail was working the waterfall for small inverts:<\/p>\n

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Classic Blackstart<\/p>\n

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Nubian Ibex<\/p>\n

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Ein Avdat gorge<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago my mate Meidad found a stunning Wallcreeper inside the scenic Ein Avdat gorge – a site where it had not been seen for over 20 years. Many birders connected with it, but I had no time to make it down south till today. Before a meeting, Amir and I met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":2149126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[9300,753,879,8064,2066,5973],"class_list":["post-2055028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blackstart","tag-bonellis-eagle","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-ibex","tag-rock-pigeon","tag-water-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055028","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\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}