{"id":38672,"date":"2025-11-17T05:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/?p=38672"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:51:06","slug":"a-flock-of-wild-parrots-spotted-at-the-university-of-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/2025\/11\/17\/a-flock-of-wild-parrots-spotted-at-the-university-of-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"A flock of wild parrots spotted at the University of Mosul."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong> While monitoring the harvest of the newly introduced sorghum varieties at the University of Mosul, as part of the activities of the Genetic Resources Department and the Field Sciences Department at the center,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Islam AbdulSattar Al-Rajabo&#8217;s camera captured the first appearance of a flock of approximately fifteen green parrots at the University of Mosul early Sunday morning, November 9, 2025. The birds were feeding on the sorghum grains.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 This phenomenon is considered positive for the return of wildlife and the movement of migratory birds, as this type of bird is usually found in central and southern Iraq.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"xv78j7m x1sy0etr\">#University_of_Mosul<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>#Center_for_Arid_Farming_and_Conservation_Agriculture_Research\u2019s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>#sustainable_development.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 While monitoring the harvest of the newly introduced sorghum varieties at the University of Mosul, as part of the activities of the Genetic Resources Department and the Field Sciences Department at the center, \u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Islam AbdulSattar Al-Rajabo&#8217;s camera captured the first appearance of a flock of approximately fifteen green parrots at the University of Mosul early Sunday morning, November 9, 2025. The birds were feeding on the sorghum grains. \u00a0\u00a0 This phenomenon is considered positive for the return of wildlife and the movement of migratory birds, as this type of bird is usually found in central and southern Iraq. <a href=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/2025\/11\/17\/a-flock-of-wild-parrots-spotted-at-the-university-of-mosul\/\"> [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":38673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38676,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672\/revisions\/38676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/afcar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}