{"id":187,"date":"2008-10-21T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/where-dem-sandgrouse-gone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T18:13:42","slug":"where-dem-sandgrouse-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/where-dem-sandgrouse-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where dem sandgrouse gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for Pin-tailed Sandgrouse at Alf\u00e9s, the only remaining breeding site for the species in Catalonia, has almost become a full-time job in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/alfes.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for Pin-tailed Sandgrouse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not too long ago you went to Alf\u00e9s drylands and you saw Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, it was as easy as that. In fact my birding notebooks from a few years back and beyond reflect that fact, as sometimes I didn&#8217;t even write down &#8220;Pin-tailed Sandgrouse&#8221;, taking it for granted that that was one species that the birder never missed, certainly not the birder who knew his way round.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that the Pin-tailed Sandgrouse is a forerunner for the next bird to go extinct in Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>After the demise of the Dupont&#8217;s Lark just a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Although it could be pipped at the post by either the Lesser Grey Shrike (will the species return next year?), or the Black-bellied Sandgrouse (the latter has been hanging on for years now despite the odds stacked against it).<\/p>\n<p>And they want to promote birding tourism to the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t have birders without the key birds&#8221; I keep telling them.\u00a0 They look at me as if I was speaking Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for Pin-tailed Sandgrouse at Alf\u00e9s, the only remaining breeding site for the species in Catalonia, has almost become a full-time job in the last couple of years. Not too long ago you went to Alf\u00e9s drylands and you saw Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, it was as easy as that. In fact my birding notebooks from a [&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-187","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\/p7I752-31","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}