10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

climate talks , currently underway in Morocco. Likely of particular interest to 10,000 Birds readers, no matter their nationality, is that U.S. support for environmental protections and measures against climate change may flag with the pending change of administrations. That’s according to interviews with experts at a new round of U.N.

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Protection Morocco 2017 Wildlife 133

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Two other countries we visited, Morocco and Turkey, have recently experienced catastrophic earthquakes. Some of this tourism occurred because we were supposed to visit Jordan, but recent geopolitical events have made Americans rather unwelcome in that corner of the world. Flight changes were required, in mid trip.

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Mexico Morocco Cuba Jordan 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

And while the Blue Jay may have 4 forms across North America, the Eurasian Jay could lay claim to 40, from Scotland to Morocco to the Japanese Islands. The erectile crest and characteristic blue wing panel, suggests that they are closely related to the North American, Blue Jay, but they do not share a genus.

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Morocco North America Collecting America 157

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.

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Burkina Faso Africa Chad Nigeria 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). 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., But here is the truly tragic part: I was not birding during those years!

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Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 156

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?

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Birds Morocco Science Tagged 183

Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

Like many poor people in Morocco, Humar’s owner had little chance of being able to afford a vet – or even find one close by. Although there are medicines that would have eased his pain and reduced the inflammation, Humar was forced to struggle on. He needed time to rest and recover. Unfortunately, this is far from the treatment he got.

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Morocco Wounded Animal Cruelty Animal Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

The south, just 21 kilometers away, is the coast of Morocco and the Griffons have just completed a short but arduous sea-crossing across the Strait of Gibraltar. As I write these lines, it is the screaming of agitated Y ellow -legged Gulls Larus michehellis just outside my window that alerts me to another raptor overhead.

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Africa Morocco Senegal Europe 230

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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. Case in point: the Spanish populists would sacrifice Doñana National Park to provide more water to strawberry farms.

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Spain Ducks Morocco Europe 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

An ancient White Stork nest at Ourzazate, Morocco by Adam Riley A pair of Black Storks with a subadult bird by Adam Riley Our final true African stork in Black Stork , another species shared with Europe and Asia.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 227

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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).

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

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. By 300 years ago it had disappeared from the whole of Europe and this pattern followed in the Middle East and North Africa.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 208

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

Morocco and Algeria) and migrates to tropical West Africa. Little Green Bee-eater by Adam Riley Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater by Adam Riley This species also boasts a range spanning two continents, Africa and Asia. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g.

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Africa South Africa Gabon Uganda 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

This email was flagging up the activities of a ‘sporting agency’ in Britain who were offering trips/holidays to Morocco to shoot Turtle Doves. Earlier this month I received an email from someone who cares a great deal about birds and their conservation, let’s protect his anonymity and call him Mr White.

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Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

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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Germany Sharks Morocco Europe 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

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 (..)

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 205