Jacobin Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus)

First Northern Grey-headed Sparrow for Algeria plus other rarities

18 January 2023 / Birding News, Birds of Algeria

Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus), Timiaouine, wilaya of Bordj Baji Mokhtar, southern Algeria, 13 October 2022 (Mourad Harzallah).

First record of the Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) for Algeria, plus a number of other good rarities at the border of the Western Palearctic. During a birding trip to southern Algeria (wilaya of Bordj Baji Mokhtar) last autumn, members of the Algerian Wildlife Watching Association (AWWA) documented the first Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus)

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First record of Jacobin Cuckoo for North Africa

Jacobin Cuckoo / Coucou jacobin (Clamator jacobinus), Tamanrasset, southern Algeria, 5 Oct. 2019 (Karim Haddad).

Two Jacobin Cuckoos photographed at Tamanrasset in October 2019. This is the first record for Algeria and North Africa. Jacobin or Pied Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus) is distributed in Africa south of the Sahara and in India and Sri Lanka. It’s very rare in the Western Palearctic region (WP). Members of the Association EcoCirta encountered this