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First Northern Grey-headed Sparrow for Algeria plus other rarities

/ 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 Watchers Association (AWWA) documented the first Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) […]

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First White-throated Bee-eater, Village Indigobird and Cut-throat Finch for Algeria

/ Birding News, Birds of Algeria
White-throated Bee-eater / Guêpier à gorge blanche (Merops albicollis)

A recent birding trip to southern Algeria produced three new bird species for the country: White-throated Bee-eater, Village Indigobird and Cut-throat Finch. [See also the results of another group’s expedition: Blue-naped Mousebirds and Black Scrub Robins in southern Algeria]. A group of amateur and professional Algerian researchers organized a birding expedition in southern Algeria in

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First White-throated Bee-eater for the Western Palearctic

/ Birding News, Birds of Morocco
White-throated Bee-eater / Guêpier à gorge blanche (Merops albicollis), Dakhla bay, 10 March 2017 (Phil Abbott).

A White-throated Bee-eater (Merops albicollis) was observed at ‘Gleb Jdiane’, Oued Dahab, on 5 and 6 December 2013 by Noëlle and Hervé Jacob (see the short video). This would be the first record for Morocco if accepted by the Moroccan Rare Birds Committee (MRBC). There was no previous observation of White-throated Bee-eater in the Western

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