White-throated Bee-eater (Merops albicollis)

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

20 January 2022 / 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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White-throated Bee-eater at Dakhla: 2nd WP record

3 March 2017 / Birding News, Birds of Morocco

White-throated Bee-eater / Guêpier à gorge blanche (Merops albicollis), Dakhla bay, 2 March 2017 (Arnoud van den Berg).

White-throated Bee-eater at Dakhla Bay: second record for Morocco and the Western Palearctic. The White-throated Bee-eater was found at Dakhla Bay, Oued Dahab region on 28 February 2017 by Billy Herman and Annelies Jacobs. It’s the second WP record for the species. It should be remembred that the first record was observed at the site …

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First White-throated Bee-eater for the Western Palearctic

18 December 2013 / 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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