{"id":2059527,"date":"2019-06-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=87dab1b46cbab7a57ef5bcab4f26494c"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:47:55","slug":"whimbrel-jubail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/whimbrel-jubail\/","title":{"rendered":"Whimbrel – Jubail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Jubail area in early May I can across a Whimbrel.<\/p>\n

This is not a common species in Saudi Arabia and it occurred to me there could be a very slim chance it could be a Steppe Whimbrel alboaxillaris as one has been claimed in Bahrain in recent years.<\/p>\n

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Whimbrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The timing was not good for Steppe Whimbrel occurring in the Middle East as the prime times should be March to early April and again in July.<\/p>\n

The fact it was alone was in its favour however.<\/p>\n

The bird appeared to be very tiered and would walk away, at some distance, when approached.<\/p>\n

When it flew it did so over a very short distance so we were loathed to disturb it too much.<\/p>\n

On two occasions when it flew I was able to get a couple of photos of its underwing, and this combined to overall plumage features suggest the bird was a nominate phaeopus.<\/p>\n

We did not attempt to get closer for better photos due to the apparently tiered nature of the bird.<\/p>\n

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Whimbrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whimbrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whimbrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whimbrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Jubail area in early May I can across a Whimbrel. This is not a common species in Saudi Arabia and it occurred to me there could be a very slim chance it could be a Steppe Whimbrel alboaxillaris as one has been claimed in Bahrain in recent years. The timing was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3108,1289],"class_list":["post-2059527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059527","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=2059527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}