{"id":833789,"date":"2016-03-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=9267ee8d91d0b3bfcc4b9a005fd9a8be"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:04:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:04:34","slug":"blandfords-agama-ash-shargiyah-development-company-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/blandfords-agama-ash-shargiyah-development-company-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Blandford\u2019s Agama – Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, near Jubail Phil saw a Blandford\u2019s Agama Trapelus ruderatus resting in the top of a small bush. We have seen the species here on a previous visit but they are not often seen.<\/p>\n

They range from northeast Jordan and southern Syria, through northern and eastern Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and southern and central Iran as far south as Shiraz. The species occurs from close to sea level to around 1,000 metres above sea level. It can be moderately common in suitable habitat. This ground-dwelling species is associated with low shrubs (Nitraria) on the fringe of sandy dunes in arid areas and in sandy desert areas.<\/p>\n

It can sometimes be found perching on bushes but is not found in modified areas. It is very similar to Yellow-spotted Agama Trapelus flavimaculatus but Blanford’s Agama has lines on its back that are missing on Yellow-spotted Agama.<\/p>\n

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Blandford\u2019s Agama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandford\u2019s Agama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandford\u2019s Agama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandford\u2019s Agama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandford\u2019s Agama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandford\u2019s Agama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, near Jubail Phil saw a Blandford\u2019s Agama Trapelus ruderatus resting in the top of a small bush. We have seen the species here on a previous visit but they are not often seen. They range from northeast Jordan and southern Syria, through northern and eastern Saudi Arabia, Iraq, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nDJ2OI-ZIUI\/VfQ9YdWMCAI\/AAAAAAAAV70\/0izlbJQepss\/s1600\/Blandfords_Agama.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8224,3108,1292],"class_list":["post-833789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blandfords-agama","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yellow-spotted-agama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833789","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=833789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}