RFI Desert Sparrow (1 Viewer)

Rob Hutchinson

Soft Lad

• Apr 23, 2011

• #1

Could anyone help me out with current information on the best places to see Desert Sparrow and the regular Morocco circuit? (no tome for the Western Sahara this time) It seems like they have disappeared (or declined drastically) from places people were seeing them just a few years ago.

I'm leaving tomorrow so any other recent info useful.

Cheers,
Rob

 

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Acrocephalus

Well-known member

• Apr 23, 2011

• #2

M'hamid el Gizlan near Zagora

As in the case of Merzouga or even better, Desert Sparrows can be easily seen around Bedouin camps near M'hamid el Gizlan at the end of the road N9 coming from Zagora. You can try this, but I don't know if it fits on your itinerary. M'hamid in Google maps

good birding,

 

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bobf

Well-known member

• May 13, 2011

• #3

Probably too late for Rob but this might be useful for others: Cafe Yasmina has a nest box with Desert Sparrow. Apparently the hole is slightly too small for House Sparrows. We saw Desert Sparrow there April 24.

 

Xenospiza

Distracted

• May 19, 2011

• #4

If Rob did the regular circuit he must have seen it there as well (I saw the pair on 26/4 and the mail on 27/4) and there's a bad picture on Surfbirds "World Rarities" as well (a bit ott, but I couldn't stick it elsewhere).