{"id":151,"date":"2008-07-20T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T08:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/pin-tailed-sandgrouse-top-50-birds-of-spain\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T08:27:44","slug":"pin-tailed-sandgrouse-top-50-birds-of-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/pin-tailed-sandgrouse-top-50-birds-of-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pin-tailed Sandgrouse: Top 50 birds of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pin-tailed Sandgrouse<\/strong>   <em>Pterocles alchata<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pintail.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Pin-tailed Sandgrouse\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Dr. Chris Gibbins<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Pin-tailed Sandgrouse<\/strong> is present all year round in steppe country in the <strong>Ebro valley<\/strong>, often forming large flocks in the winter months. Sadly though, it is <strong>declining<\/strong> in the region in both range and abundance, due mostly to <strong>habitat loss<\/strong> to intensive, irrigated farming. <strong>Pin-tailed Sandgrouse<\/strong> inhabit a single site in <strong>Catalunya<\/strong>, but are more widespread in <strong>Arag\u00f3n<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pin-tailed-sandgrouse-map.jpg\" alt=\"Pin-tailed Sandgrouse map\" \/><br \/>\nBirding itineraries where the <strong>Pin-tailed Sandgrouse<\/strong> can be found: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/sites-and-itineraries\/drylands-of-lleida\/birding-in-drylands-of-lleida.html\" title=\"Birding in Spain: birding itinerary in the drylands of Lleida\">Drylands of Lleida<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/sites-and-itineraries\/monegros-alcolea-and-candasnos\/birding-in-alcolea-and-candasnos-monegros.html\" title=\"Birding in Spain: birding itinerary in monegros - candasnos and alcolea\">Monegros: Alcolea and Candasnos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/sites-and-itineraries\/monegros-bujaraloz\/birding-in-monegros-bujaraloz.html\" title=\"Birding in Spain: birding itinerary in Monegros - Bujaraloz\">Monegros: Bujaraloz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/sites-and-itineraries\/belchite-steppes\/birding-in-belchite-steppes.html\" title=\"Birding in Spain: birding itinerary in the Belchite steppes\">Belchite steppes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata Photo courtesy of Dr. Chris Gibbins The Pin-tailed Sandgrouse is present all year round in steppe country in the Ebro valley, often forming large flocks in the winter months. Sadly though, it is declining in the region in both range and abundance, due mostly to habitat loss to intensive, irrigated farming. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-2r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}