{"id":9613,"date":"2013-10-21T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:54:35","slug":"water-birds-in-lake-qarun-fayoum-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=9613","title":{"rendered":"Water birds in Lake Qarun &#8211; Fayoum (Egypt) &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Video credit:<\/strong> Elie Badai (Cameroon)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Abdel Rahman El Gamal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lake Qarun (Fayoum) has a special importance as an over-wintering location for water birds. The wetlnad habitat of Lake Qarun supports wide range of water birds. It has been estimated that hosts a total of 205 birds species have been identified mostly migratory. It is estimated that as many as 80-90 species of water birds are found in the area of the lake. The international importance of Lake Qarun for wintering water birds led to become a part of Ramsar wetland sites and a Specially Protected Area, under the Barcelona Convention and has been declared a protected nature conservation area in 1989. For touristic purposes, Lake Qarun is considered an excellent bird watching location. The waterfowl, black-necked Grebe, coots, shore birds are among the birds found in Lake Qarun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBGKoHu3lck\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video credit: Elie Badai (Cameroon) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal Lake Qarun (Fayoum) has a special importance as an over-wintering location for water birds. The wetlnad habitat of Lake Qarun supports wide range of water birds. It has been estimated that hosts a total of 205 birds species have been identified mostly migratory. It is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=9613\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,291,294],"tags":[4162,4163,4168,4169,4165,4170,4166,2145,4167,4164],"class_list":["post-9613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gallery-2","category-videos","tag-bird-over-wintering","tag-bird-watching","tag-black-necked-grebe","tag-coots","tag-international-importance-of-lake-qarun","tag-protected-area","tag-ramsar","tag-water-birds","tag-waterfowl","tag-wetland-habitats","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-2v3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9618,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions\/9618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}