10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
Tiny satellite tracking tags allowed scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology to track five cuckoos on their 5,000 km migration to Africa. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco.
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).
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