{"id":36156,"date":"2013-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:43:45","slug":"saunderss-gull-chroicocephalus-saundersi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/saunderss-gull-chroicocephalus-saundersi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saunders\u2019s Gull (Chroicocephalus saundersi)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I visited Daijyugarami for the first time this year. A little early for the rarer migrant waders, but there were plenty of Grey Plover, Red-necked Stint, Dunlin, Kentish Plover and Greater Sand Plover.<\/p>\n

There were also quite a few Black-faced Spoonbill slowly coming into breeding plumage, along with a sprinkling of Far Easter Curlew, Eurasian Curlew, Long-billed Dowitcher and Ruff.<\/p>\n

But the highlight were the Saunders’s Gull that were very confiding!<\/p>\n

There were at least 40 birds feeding on the mudflats, and many came very close to me and so I was able to get some great images.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Saunders’s Gull (Chroicocephalus saundersi)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I visited Daijyugarami for the first time this year. A little early for the rarer migrant waders, but there were plenty of Grey Plover, Red-necked Stint, Dunlin, Kentish Plover and Greater Sand Plover. There were also quite a few Black-faced Spoonbill slowly coming into breeding plumage, along with a sprinkling of Far Easter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/saunderss-gull-adult-breeding-42991.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[727,7847,3716,1030,1641,7835,2449,1025,2975,1028,3714,1716],"class_list":["post-36156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-faced-spoonbill","tag-chroicocephalus-saundersi","tag-daijyugarami","tag-dunlin","tag-eurasian-curlew","tag-japan","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-kentish-plover","tag-long-billed-dowitcher","tag-ruff","tag-saunderss-gull","tag-waders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}