{"id":8925,"date":"2012-04-27T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2014-11-27T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T20:47:29","slug":"cream-coloured-courser-at-tarifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/cream-coloured-courser-at-tarifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cream-coloured Courser at Tarifa"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the rarest waders to turn up in Europe was found by a teacher with a party of schoolchildren out on a field trip on Tarifa beach on the morning of the 12th of April 2012. The teacher knew that it was an unusual bird and phoned Fundación Migres, a local NGO that studies bird migration on The Strait of Gibraltar and described the bird to them. A search was made and the bird was re-located a short distance from the original location. I heard about the sighting around midday but unfortunately I was with French clients over on the other side of the county at the Guadalquivir River.<\/p>\n

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Later that evening I travelled down to Tarifa and made a search, finally locating the Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor). These are some of the photos I managed to take just as the sun was going down behind a stormy sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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The Cream-colored Courser, Cursorius cursor, is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.Although classed as waders, these are birds of dry open country, preferably semi-desert, where they typically hunt their insect prey by running on the ground.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor) are generally quite confiding birds and blend in really well against a sandy background. It’s normally their running around that gives them away<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Cream-colored Courser, Cursorius cursor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Visit my website to learn more about my activities as a guide in the Andalucia region of Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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