10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2024
At the same time, they want to stop seasonal migration from Morocco, needed to pick these very same strawberries 3 months later. The science-based approach that recognises the dilemmas and identifies the hard choices isn’t election material, I suppose. Anyway, the work would take me to Andalucia – prime White-headed Duck country.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco. Birds, technology, and science together are simply fascinating. 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.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2012
Was it a smart 1st-summer male flycatcher an Atlas Flycatcher far from it’s usual haunts in the Atlas mountains in Morocco? Or was it a hybrid Pied x Collared Flycatcher forever blackened by its mixed parentage and deemed not worthy of a place on our list?
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. 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
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample! It now exists only in 4 breeding colonies at 2 locations on the coast of Morocco and a recently rediscovered relict colony in Syria, where it had been declared extinct for 70 years.
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