Morocco 2018

05 May 2018 – 12 May 2018

Peter Zeller

Participants: Claudio Koller, Lucas Lombardo, Beni Sutter, Emin Yoğurtcuoğlu, Peter Zeller

Visited Sites

Enjil area

Ifrane–Azrou road

Zaida plains

Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

Imiter

Tagdilt Track

Oukaïmeden

Tensift River (Marrakesh)

Merja Zerga

Lac Sidi Boughaba NP

• Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP

    2018-05-12

    2 ind.

• Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP
• Common Pochard Aythya ferina
• Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP

    2018-05-12

    6 ind.

• White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP

    2018-05-12

    6 ind.

• Common Quail Coturnix coturnix details  sounds
  • enroute
• Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP
• Rock Pigeon Columba livia
• Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Columba livia (Feral Pigeon)
• Stock Dove Columba oenas
• Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus
• European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur
• Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    1 ind.

• Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    ≥ 100 ind.

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    6 ind.

• Crowned Sandgrouse Pterocles coronatus details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    ≥ 100 ind.

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    1 ind.

• Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Common Swift Apus apus
• Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
• Little Swift Apus affinis details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-10

    4 ind.

• Eurasian Moorhen Gallinula chloropus details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP
• Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP

    2018-05-12

    ≥ 2 ind.

• Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
• Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
• Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
• Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Sanderling Calidris alba
• Dunlin Calidris alpina
• Cream-colored Courser Cursorius cursor details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    ≈ 30 ind.

  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
  • Tagdilt Track
• Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola details  sounds
  • enroute
• Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Little Tern Sternula albifrons
• Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-12

    2 ind.

• Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga
• Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga

    2018-05-12

    5 ind.

• Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

• White Stork Ciconia ciconia
• Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
• Little Egret Egretta garzetta
• Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
• Great Egret Ardea alba
• Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
• Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
• Eurasian Griffon Gyps fulvus details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-09

    4 ind.

• Short-toed Snake-Eagle Circaetus gallicus
• Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
• Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-09

    2 ind.

• Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP
• Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
• Eurasian Goshawk Accipiter gentilis
• Black Kite Milvus migrans
• Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus
• Eurasian Scops-Owl Otus scops
• Pharaoh Eagle-Owl Bubo ascalaphus details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    2 ind.

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Little Owl Athene noctua
• Maghreb Owl Strix mauritanica
• Long-eared Owl Asio otus
• Marsh Owl Asio capensis details  sounds
  • Merja Zerga

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

    Sleep in the Hotel "le nid du hibou". the owner is a very good guide for the Owl.

• Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
  • enroute

    2018-05-09

    2 ind.

• European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
• European Roller Coracias garrulus details  sounds
  • Ifrane–Azrou road

    2018-05-05

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla details  sounds
  • Ifrane–Azrou road
• Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
• Levaillant's Woodpecker Picus vaillantii details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-09

    1 ind.

• Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-05

    ≈ 10 ind.

• Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
• Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

• Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus details  sounds
  • Enjil area
• Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
• Great Gray Shrike Lanius excubitor
• Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
• Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica
• Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
• Yellow-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus
• Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula
• Brown-necked Raven Corvus ruficollis details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Coal Tit Periparus ater
• African Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae
• Great Tit Parus major
• Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    ≥ 7 ind.

• Thick-billed Lark Ramphocoris clotbey details  sounds
  • Tagdilt Track

    2018-05-08

    4 ind.

• Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura
• Desert Lark Ammomanes deserti details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris details  sounds
  • Oukaïmeden
• Temminck's Lark Eremophila bilopha details  sounds
  • Enjil area
  • Tagdilt Track
• Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla
• Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    3 ind.

  • Zaida plains

    2018-05-06

    2 ind.

• Mediterranean Short-toed Lark Alaudala rufescens
• Wood Lark Lullula arborea
• Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
• Thekla's Lark Galerida theklae
• Crested Lark Galerida cristata
• Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
• Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca
• Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
• Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon details  sounds
  • Lac Sidi Boughaba NP
• Plain Martin Riparia paludicola details  sounds
  • Tensift River (Marrakesh)

    2018-05-10

    ≥ 4 ind.

• Eurasian Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris
• Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
• Western House-Martin Delichon urbicum
• Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
• Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
• Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
• Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli
• Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti
• Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
• African Desert Warbler Curruca deserti details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    3 ind.

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Tristram's Warbler Curruca deserticola details  sounds
  • enroute

    2018-05-06

    2 ind.

• Sardinian Warbler Curruca melanocephala
• Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae
• Greater Whitethroat Curruca communis
• Fulvous Chatterer Argya fulva details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
• Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla
• European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor
• Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
• Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula
• Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus
• Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
• Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas galactotes
• European Robin Erithacus rubecula
• Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
• Atlas Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera details  sounds
  • Ifrane–Azrou road

    2018-05-05

    ≥ 4 ind.

    Atlas Pied Flycatcher

• Moussier's Redstart Phoenicurus moussieri details  sounds
  • Ifrane–Azrou road
  • enroute

    2018-05-06

    3 ind.

• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus details  sounds
  • enroute
• Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush Monticola saxatilis
• Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius
• Northern/Atlas Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe/seebohmi details  sounds
  • Ifrane–Azrou road
  • Enjil area
  • Oukaïmeden
  • enroute
• Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti details  sounds
  • Enjil area
  • Zaida plains
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
  • Tagdilt Track
• Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica
• Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta details  sounds
  • Enjil area

    2018-05-05

    6 ind.

    4 juv.

  • Tagdilt Track
• Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura details  sounds
  • Zaida plains
  • Imiter
• White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
  • Tagdilt Track
  • Imiter
• Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens details  sounds
  • Imiter

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

• House Sparrow Passer domesticus
• Desert Sparrow Passer simplex details  sounds
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)

    2018-05-07

    2 ind.

    Desert Day -Trip with http://www.gayuin.com

• Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia
• Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
• White Wagtail Motacilla alba
• African Chaffinch Fringilla spodiogenys
• Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguineus details  sounds
  • Oukaïmeden

    2018-05-10

    2 ind.

    In the summer not easy to find

• Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus
• European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
• European Serin Serinus serinus
• Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra
• Rock Bunting Emberiza cia
• House Bunting Emberiza sahari details  sounds
  • Enjil area
  • Erg Chebbi (Merzouga)
  • Tagdilt Track
  • enroute

    2018-05-09

    ≥ 20 ind.

    Regularly in the southern Villages