{"id":799863,"date":"2016-02-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=717bf1d5158033d188d1e489118e17c1"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:02:38","slug":"spur-winged-lapwing-haradh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/spur-winged-lapwing-haradh\/","title":{"rendered":"Spur-winged Lapwing \u2013 Haradh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst biding the Haradh area on 5 February 2015 Phil Roberts and I found a Spur-winged Lapwing in a pivot irrigation field next to the NADEC dairy farm. The species is still scarce in the Eastern Province with all records shown below:<\/p>\n

Haradh 24th October 1986; Dhahran 22nd November 1986; Sabkhat Al Fasl 30th October & 6th November 2009; An adult Dhahran Saudi Aramco Camp, percolation pond 12th & 13th May 2011; An adult Dhahran Saudi Aramco Camp, percolation pond 8th August 2012; Dhahran Saudi Aramco Camp, percolation pond 27th September to 2nd October 2012; An adult Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm (Fadhili) 12th October 2012; Two adult were at Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, Fadhili 31 January 2013; 15 birds were at NADEC dairy farm in Haradh 7 February 2013 showing the species is expanding its range eastwards into the Eastern Province<\/p>\n

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In Saudi Arabia as a whole the Spur-winged Lapwing is a common breeder in the southwest from Yemen boarder up the Red Sea coast to near Jeddah as well as the extreme northwest and the area around Riyadh.<\/p>\n

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Whilst biding the Haradh area on 5 February 2015 Phil Roberts and I found a Spur-winged Lapwing in a pivot irrigation field next to the NADEC dairy farm. The species is still scarce in the Eastern Province with all records shown below: Haradh 24th October 1986; Dhahran 22nd November 1986; Sabkhat Al Fasl 30th October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TeFAx1vFTyc\/VrcKKMIBQnI\/AAAAAAAAXn0\/IRaKbJTK9nc\/s1600\/760A3944.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3108,8178],"class_list":["post-799863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-spur-winged-lapwing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799863","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=799863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}