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). No more, no less.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. A week after seeing and photographing the kite I was in Northern Morocco, watching birds on the Merja Zerga, a sprawling estuary that it is an important feeding area for many migrant birds.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Critter News
JANUARY 6, 2009
Humar, pictured on the right, is just one animal to have suffered this traditional, yet ineffective treatment, to horrifying effect. 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. We don’t really mean that they will be lined up and shot.
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. There will be large eucalypts and a canal on your right. Recent checklists for Laguna de Zóñar do not list White-headed Duck so that may have been the right call.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Marabous occur throughout tropical and subtropical Africa from Zululand in northern South Africa right up to the arid Sahel region fringing the Sahara Desert, avoiding the closed canopy rainforest zones of central and west Africa.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
In Africa, our bee-eaters occur from the southern tip of the continent right through to the far north, occupying an incredible range of habitats and niches, from the interior of the deepest rainforests of the Congo to the arid steppes of the Sahel. Morocco and Algeria) and migrates to tropical West Africa.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
194 
Let's personalize your content