In this post I would like to add the complete list of the non-passerines birds observed during our visit to the Middle Atlas last weekend, to complete the first post about passerines birds. All photographs by Said Lahrouz, hope you will enjoy seeing them....!!
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| Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) - Azrou |
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| Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis ) swimming - Dayet Hachlaf |
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Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) - small lake between Azrou and Timahdit
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Black-necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) - Aguelmam Afenourrir.
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A pair of Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) during copulation - Dayet Zerrouka
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A pair of Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata) feeding their chicks - Dayet Aoua
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Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
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Stock Dove (Columba oenas) - near Timahdit
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Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus cirtensis)
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Booted Eagle (
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Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) - Azrou
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List of non-passerine birds observed during the trip :
Gadwall
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Anas strepera
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Mallard
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Anas platyrhynchos
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Northern Shoveler
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Anas clypeata
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Common Pochard
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Aythya ferina
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Ferruginous Duck
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Aythya nyroca
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Little Grebe
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Tachybaptus ruficollis
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Great Crested Grebe
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Podiceps cristatus
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Black-necked Grebe
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Podiceps nigricollis
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Great Cormorant
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Phalocrocorax carbo
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Cattle Egret
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Bubulcus ibis
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Little Egret
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Egretta garzetta
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Grey Heron
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Ardea cinerea
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White Stork
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Ciconia ciconia
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Eurasian Honey Buzzard
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Pernis apivorus
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Black Kite
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Milvus migrans
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Marsh Harrier
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Circus aeruginosus aeruginosus
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Eurasian Sparrowhawk
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Accipiter nisus
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Long-legged Buzzard
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Buteo rufinus cirtensis
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Booted Eagle
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Aquila pennata
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Lesser Kestrel
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Falco naumanni
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Common Moorhen
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Gallinula chloropus
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Eurasian Coot
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Fulica atra
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Red-knobbed Coot
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Fulica cristata
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Black-winged Stilt
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Himantopus himantopus
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Little Ringed Plover
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Charadrius dubius
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Common Snipe
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Gallinago gallinago
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Common Greenshank
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Tringa nebularia
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Green Sandpiper
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Tringa ochropus
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Wood Sandpiper
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Tringa glareola
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Stock Dove
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Columba oenas
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Common Wood Pigeon
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Columba palumbus
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Barn Owl
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Tyto alba
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Eurasian Hoopoe
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Upupa epops
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Levaillant’s Green Woodpecker
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Picus vaillantii
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Dear Abdelhak,
ReplyDeleteI think the last picture in this post shows a Common, not a Lesser Kestrel. The bird is much too streaked, has a very prominent moustache stripe and the dark wing tips are missing.
Kai
Thanks Kai, you are right about Kastrel ID.
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