A satellite-tracked White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) found dead near Asilah, Tangier region, northern Morocco. The good news is that the satellite transmitter was found in good condition. This is the story of how the White Stork ‘C666’ died and how its transmitter was found. On 26 November 2013, Brigitta Keeves from the office of Prof.
GPS-tracked White Stork found dead in fishing lines near Tangier, Morocco Read More »
A wild Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) filmed “displaying” near Safia reserve, Bir Guendouz, Oued Dahab, about 50 Km north of the Mauritanian border by members of the Association ‘Nature Initiative’ (A.N.I.). The association regularly monitors the reintroduced wildlife (addax, dama gazelle and North African Ostrich) in this reserve, and this bird was recorded during one of these
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Two Eurasian Spoonbills (Platalea leucorodia) have connected The Netherlands with their wintering areas in northern Morocco during several years. These Spoonbills were ringed at two different Dutch islands and observed regularly wintering in the wetlands of northern Morocco during the autumns of 2011 and 2013 and again in 2015 and 2016. Spoonbill 1 This bird
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An Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) was observed and photographed near Dakhla, Oued Dahab by Franck Chevalier on 11 October 2013. The bird seen at a water point at “ferme Maraîchage du Sahara 1”, and seemed neither tired nor in poor condition. This is the first record for Morocco and only the second (or third) documented
خلال كل موسم قنص، أو حتى خارج أوقات القنص، يقترف بعض القناصين (أو الصيادين) الغير المسؤولين أفعال شنيعة ضد الحياة البرية. تذكّر هذه المقالة القراء بما يجب أن يفعله الصياد المسؤول والمحترم في أثناء الصيد. الصيد أو القنص الصيد هواية، رياضة و متعة عرفها الإنسان منذ القِدم ومارسها أجدادنا كمصدر للغذاء و من أجل إنقاص
The Subalpine Warbler complex (sensu lato) is a polytypic species, but the number of ‘subspecies’ considered as valid changed over time. Until the 1990s, only three subspecies were recognised: 1) the nominate S. c. cantillans in Iberia, southern France and Italy, plus the birds breeding in the Western Mediterranean islands were also considered to belong
A new phylogenetic study of the Mourning Wheatear complex confirmed its split into three different species. Concerning the Maghreb Wheatear, which is already given species status by some authors, the new study hinted that it should be split too. The Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens) senso lato is distributed in North Africa, East Africa, the Levant, Iran and
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Suite à la publication des photos d’un Vautour fauve abattu par des “chasseurs” la semaine dernière, notre collègue M. L. El Jebari a lancé l’appel suivant, soulignant l’importance de la sensibilisation des chasseurs ainsi que l’application de l’examen du permis de chasse. Par Mohamed Larbi El Jebari, Président de l’Association Marocaine de Chasse et de
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Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii) is a rare and range-restricted breeding species in Morocco. In fact, it’s so localised and discrete that it’s included in the list of species to be submitted to the Moroccan Rare Birds Committee (in order to help gather more data about its distribution). There are however some sites where the species
بعض الصيادون المغاربة (أو الصيادة كما يعرفون بالدارجة) يقتلون بطريقة غير مشروعة حيوانات محمية بالقانون المغربي و الدولي. الصور أدناه تظهر هؤلاء “الصيادين” يأخذون الصور بكل فخر مع ضحيتهم النسر الأسمر في نواحي إقليم أزيلال، وسط المغرب. في الخريف الماضي، قام أطفال بالتعدي على بعض النسور المهاجرة بالقرب من مدينة وزان – بكل تأكيد قد