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
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.
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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
MARCH 1, 2024
They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used. Audouin’s Gull is an attractive species restricted as a breeding bird to the Mediterranean, but many winter in North Africa.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Two other countries we visited, Morocco and Turkey, have recently experienced catastrophic earthquakes. Fortunately, two species of Mergansers sometimes stray to Cuba, and so my friend suggested, correctly, that ours was a female Hooded Merganser. Flight changes were required, in mid trip. But which one?
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
JANUARY 29, 2020
Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). The 29 species I added to my January list say so as well.) In other words, I travelled, sometimes every weekend. Most of this travel was in Mexico, but I also visited different regions of the U.S., Is Acapulco a worthwhile birding destination?
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