{"id":2056949,"date":"2019-03-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ca3d17bd1326a9d66640a190e3cd2924"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:42:38","slug":"greater-flamingo-flocks-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/greater-flamingo-flocks-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Flamingo flocks \u2013 Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Jubail area recently I recorded plenty of Greater Flamingos in several large groups. Numbers possibly amounted to over three thousand birds, a good count to the location.<\/p>\n

I also saw Grey-headed Swamphen a species that breed in the area as well as the less common Purple Heron and Spanish Sparrow.<\/p>\n

Wintering Daurian Shrikes were around in good numbers as well but otherwise it was relatively quiet.<\/p>\n

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Greater Flamingo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Greater Flamingo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-headed-Swamphen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-headed-Swamphen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spanish Sparrows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daurian Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Jubail area recently I recorded plenty of Greater Flamingos in several large groups. Numbers possibly amounted to over three thousand birds, a good count to the location. I also saw Grey-headed Swamphen a species that breed in the area as well as the less common Purple Heron and Spanish Sparrow. Wintering Daurian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[825,1652,8512,882,7203],"class_list":["post-2056949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-daurian-shrike","tag-greater-flamingo","tag-grey-headed-swamphen","tag-purple-heron","tag-spanish-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056949","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=2056949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}