{"id":42827,"date":"2013-07-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=641248b2fe66603a7e023d6753546d83"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:33:12","slug":"red-billed-tropicbirds-at-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/red-billed-tropicbirds-at-the-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-billed Tropicbirds at the gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late June 2001, while writing my final work for my B.Sc and before leaving Israel and going to start my life in East Africa, I was standing on North Beach in Eilat together with Barak Granit and admiring my first ever Red-billed Tropicbirdwhich came in from nowhere and gave me my farewell present from Israel.<\/p>\n

Last Sat’ (12 years and one month later) I went out with Avi Meir and Ilan Biel to watch (and photograph) birds at the gulf. Once again, out of the blue sky an adult Red-billed Tropicbird which was later joined by another adult bird, flew overhead (too far and fast for the photographers) and made me a very very happy man. What an amazing bird with its long fluttering tail!<\/p>\n

Since we did not get any photo of these birds we had to settle for a pair of White-cheeked Terns who were very friendly and allowed very close views.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

By the end of the day we added also 3-4 Bridled Terns, 2 Arctic and 1 Pomarine Skua.<\/p>\n

Migration is starting to pick up very slow still, but surely there are new birds arriving daily:
\nJuv’Black-headed Gulls(the closest breeding is probably in Turkey?!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Juv’ Black-headed Gulls<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Wader numbers are growing steadily with the first Little Stints & Greenshanksjoining the groups of Green & Wood Sandpipers. The first Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterswere found today by Yaniv Basher and since i was around I’ve managed to get a ‘digiIPhone’ record shot…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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

Namaqua Dovesare still being spotted daily in various placesandStriatedHeronsare chasing one another when not fishing ormodelling…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Namaqua Dove<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Striated Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Striated Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Striated Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late June 2001, while writing my final work for my B.Sc and before leaving Israel and going to start my life in East Africa, I was standing on North Beach in Eilat together with Barak Granit and admiring my first ever Red-billed Tropicbirdwhich came in from nowhere and gave me my farewell present from Israel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2146917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1596,1303,4833,460,2822,2736,2637,947,2641,1318,980],"class_list":["post-42827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-blue-cheeked-bee-eater","tag-bridled-tern","tag-israel","tag-itai-shanni","tag-namaqua-dove","tag-phaethon-aethereus","tag-red-billed-tropicbird","tag-striated-heron","tag-white-cheeked-tern","tag-wood-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}