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My Favorite 2023 Birds

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The work part of this trip included ten days spent in a suburban neighborhood of Marrakesh, Morocco. I was not able to get out and do much serious birding, but fortunately, in Morocco the birds come to you. But Morocco’s example is by far the “housiest” of them all. What the heck are you doing here?

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What the rings reveal

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A week after seeing and photographing the kite I was in Northern Morocco, watching birds on the Merja Zerga, a sprawling estuary that it is an important feeding area for many migrant birds. In the case of the Audouin’s Gulls my sightings confirm the importance of the various wetlands and estuaries of North Morocco as wintering grounds.

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Africa’s endangered species

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One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. The Waldrapp’s numbers continued declining despite intensive conservation efforts.

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The return of the Old Man

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Nesting is now confined to Morocco, irregularly in Boghari in Algeria and in Birecik, Turkey.” (The Bald and beautiful: the Northern Bald Ibis Broad-winged and short-tailed: an Ibis overhead Fortunately for the ibises, that protection did eventually come, and today the number of birds in Morocco is rising steadily.

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The Storks of Africa

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It is quite a sight to experience hundreds of Abdim’s Stork dropping out of the skies from seemingly thin air, to gorge on burnt or fleeing insects and rodents. It appears in southern Africa only during the Austral summer months, usually in large flocks that seek out locust and flying termite eruptions.

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Biting the bullet or jumping the shark? A potential Baikal Wagtail in Germany

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The White Wagtail Motacilla alba , or the taxonomic entity formerly known as “White Wagtail”, comprises a complex of 9 differently-looking forms which have some white in their plumage, wag their tail and inhabit all of Eurasia from eastern Greenland and Morocco to western-most Alaska and northern Vietnam.

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Introducing the African Birding Beat

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I will elaborate in future blogposts with illustrated posts, but in summary, the essential Africa destinations are: East Africa – a combination of the best of northern Tanzania and Kenya’s parks and birding sites; South Africa – Africa’s most diverse country boasting the most endemics; Cameroon – central Africa’s richest destination with lowland and (..)