{"id":8142,"date":"2021-05-25T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinct.co.za\/site\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2024-10-06T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:56:49","slug":"birding-enthusiast-spots-155-bird-species-in-and-around-the-sibaya-coastal-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/birding-enthusiast-spots-155-bird-species-in-and-around-the-sibaya-coastal-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding enthusiast spots 155 bird species in and around the Sibaya Coastal Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, a Gauteng based birder spotted a remarkable 155 bird species in and around the Sibaya Coastal Forest with some species identified for the first time. His new findings were added to the South African Bird Atlas Project 2 (SABAP2) website and the area now has a total of 279 documented sightings.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the new list are the Green Malkoha, Crested Guineafowl, European Honey Buzzard, Grey Waxbill and the Dark-backed Weaver. A European Roller was also identified for the first time in the precinct.<\/p>\n<p>The Sibaya Conservation Trust, which manages Sibaya&#8217;s indigenous coastal forest, works hard daily to create a sustainable indigenous environment that attracts birds and other wildlife. The noteworthy number of bird sightings is testament to the team&#8217;s ongoing effort to maintain the Sibaya Coastal Forest and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Image. Flickr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, a Gauteng based birder spotted a remarkable 155 bird species in and around the Sibaya Coastal Forest with some species identified for the first time. His new findings were added to the South African Bird Atlas Project 2 (SABAP2) website and the area now has a total of 279 documented sightings. Included in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-and-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}