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. The Gray Crowned-Crane is a new addition to the list of the world’s Endangered species, creeping up a category from Vulnerable.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2024
But now, it’s time to go for many species. Some travel down the Atlantic coast of Morocco or up the coast of Iberia, also to moult, but many now hang around the Strait. The winter storms churn all this up and make the Mediterranean a place worth entering if you’re a seabird.
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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. But it was close. Which I did, in Tabasco.
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).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
climate talks , currently underway in Morocco. Without them, species like the Red Knot (captured so beautifully above by Clare K.) Likely of particular interest to 10,000 Birds readers, no matter their nationality, is that U.S. That’s according to interviews with experts at a new round of U.N. commitments under the agreement.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. We have both resident and migratory species, and this post will briefly discuss each of the 20 species of African bee-eaters.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2012
Britain might have had new species to add to it’s list, then again maybe it didn’t. Was it a smart 1st-summer male flycatcher an Atlas Flycatcher far from it’s usual haunts in the Atlas mountains in Morocco?
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