{"id":2055162,"date":"2018-12-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=543cf2adebe67a6c79f1283d6e12cc2d"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:38:30","slug":"blue-cheeked-bee-eater-jubail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/blue-cheeked-bee-eater-jubail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-cheeked Bee-eater – Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

This autumn there have been large numbers of Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters passing over Jubail as well as many other areas of the Eastern Province. The species is a common passage migrant through the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia with good numbers of birds passing in the spring as well as the autumn.<\/p>\n

Numbers are commoner in the autumn when they outnumber European Bee-eater whereas the opposite is true in the spring. This year birds have been seen eating insects on the ground with a favourite insect the Migratory Locust.<\/p>\n

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater pass later in November than European Bee-eaters but both are common in the peak migration seasons.<\/p>\n

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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This autumn there have been large numbers of Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters passing over Jubail as well as many other areas of the Eastern Province. The species is a common passage migrant through the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia with good numbers of birds passing in the spring as well as the autumn. Numbers are commoner in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1303,3108],"class_list":["post-2055162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blue-cheeked-bee-eater","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055162","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=2055162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}