Morocco Related Topics 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Others will spend the winter months north of the desert, in Morocco and in the Iberian Peninsula, where they join the local residents. These birds are heading south-west, many of them crossing the Sahara Desert to wintering grounds in West Africa. These migrants are essentially… Source
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 17, 2024
This will be the beginning of a work trip to Spain and Morocco. By the time I post this, I will be in Dublin, Ireland. But we always try to find somewhere new and interesting for the first few days of such trips, while we adjust to new time zones. This year’s choice was Dublin.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2024
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2024
Some travel down the Atlantic coast of Morocco or up the coast of Iberia, also to moult, but many now hang around the Strait. Below: Juvenile at same site, showing characteristic underwing pattern Something similar happens to the Yellow-legged Gulls Larus michahellis. They are now finishing the breeding season and leave the breeding colonies.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Northern Bald Ibis also occurred in North Africa and many colonies survived in Morocco and Algeria but this tragic pattern continued with the last colony in Algeria vanishing in the 1980’s. There has been growth in the breeding population at the colonies in Morocco (now estimated at 106 breeding pairs and approximately 500 birds in total).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco. The birds have dispersed rather widely: Four of the birds have already crossed the Sahara; two are in southern Chad, one is in northern Nigeria and the fourth one is in Burkina Faso. Birds, technology, and science together are simply fascinating.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2023
Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).
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