{"id":37354,"date":"2026-05-12T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/armenian-gulls-migrating-to-irans-lake-urmia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:22:58","slug":"armenian-gulls-migrating-to-irans-lake-urmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/armenian-gulls-migrating-to-irans-lake-urmia\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian gulls migrating to Iran\u2019s Lake Urmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6020632.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">One of the main breeding sites for Armenian gull (Larus armenicus) worldwide is Lake Urmia,\u00a0situated in northwestern Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among large gulls, it is rather small and delicate with a short bill and a \u201csweet\u201d, round-headed profile. Adults have a prominent black band across the bill. Wingtips are extensively black with little white. Young birds are brown and streaked, have a rather limited range, and breed on upland lakes.<\/p>\n<p><em><span><strong>Photo: ISNA \/ Soheil Faraji<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/526350\/Armenian-gulls-migrating-to-Iran-s-Lake-Urmia\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main breeding sites for Armenian gull (Larus armenicus) worldwide is Lake Urmia,\u00a0situated in northwestern Iran.\u00a0 Among large gulls, it is rather small and delicate with a short bill and a \u201csweet\u201d, round-headed profile. Adults have a prominent black band across the bill. Wingtips are extensively black with little white. Young birds are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9930,10,1662,64],"class_list":["post-37354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-armenian-gulls","tag-iran","tag-lake-urmia","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}