{"id":72,"date":"2011-05-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2011\/05\/rare-visitors.html"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:53:31","slug":"rare-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2011\/05\/rare-visitors.html","title":{"rendered":"rare visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the twitchers: two bird species never before documented in the Arabian Peninsula have been seen in the UAE in the past fortnight.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Franklin.jpg\" alt=\"franklin-gull\" title=\"franklin-gull\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-465\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/uae-news\/environment\/rare-birds-new-to-the-region-spotted-in-uae\" target=\"new\">Franklin Gull \/ Source: The National<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cory%27s_Shearwater\" target=\"new\">Cory&#8217;s Shearwater<\/a> was spotted by birdwatchers on May 12 &#8211; the first sighting in the Middle East. The bird was found while the group were taking part in a boat trip off Kalba, the east coast enclave of Sharjah near the Oman border.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLast week, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin%27s_Gull\" target=\"new\">Franklin&#8217;s Gull<\/a> turned up at Fujairah Port Beach. The gull appeared on May 17 and remained at the beach over the weekend, to the delight of dozens of bird enthusiasts who turned out to see it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSightings of species new to the region are extremely rare &#8211; the last one happened in December 2008 when a Red-flanked Bluetail was seen at Safa Park in Dubai.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Franklin Gull normally breeds in the Northern US and Canada, whilst the Cory&#8217;s Shearwater in the Mediterranean.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMore info on <a href=\"http:\/\/uaebirding.com\/\" target=\"new\">birding in the UAE can be found at Tommy Pedersen&#8217;s website<\/a> on the subject.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>Picture and quote from The National<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the twitchers: two bird species never before documented in the Arabian Peninsula have been seen in the UAE in the past fortnight. A Cory&#8217;s Shearwater was spotted by birdwatchers on May 12 &#8211; the first sighting in the Middle East. The bird was found while the group were taking part in a boat trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}