White-backed Vulture: a new species for Morocco (today) (1 Viewer)

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Acrocephalus

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• May 25, 2014

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White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus): a new species for Morocco.

We had excellent views for a first record for the country!

How many Western Palearctic records of this species? Spain had 3 I think.

 

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Richard Klim

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• May 25, 2014

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Mohamed, you're having a very successful spring!!!

I think that the only accepted (Cat A) WP records are from Spain – but presumably they also passed through Morocco...

 

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Jon Turner

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• May 25, 2014

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Excellent find Mo! Congratulations.

 

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Acrocephalus

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• May 25, 2014

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Thanks Richard and Jon. They say "it's too good to be true". But it was really not the case for us. We went to survey wetland birds in our own region and we saw a first for Morocco. It was so close, we got excellent views.

 

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Simon Wates

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• May 25, 2014

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...and huhum...one record for Sagres, Portugal - found by our friend Brian

http://www.avesdeportugal.info/gypafr.html and now even more eligible for inclusion in Cat.A.

Nice one Mohamed!

 

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Acrocephalus

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• May 26, 2014

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Richard Klim said:

Mohamed, you're having a very successful spring!!!

I think that the only accepted (Cat A) WP records are from Spain – but presumably they also passed through Morocco...

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Simon Wates said:

...and huhum...one record for Sagres, Portugal - found by our friend Brian

http://www.avesdeportugal.info/gypafr.html and now even more eligible for inclusion in Cat.A.

Nice one Mohamed!

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Thanks, that’s what Javier Elorriaga, Dominic Mitchell and others have said about the WP records as well. Dominic also added that the Portuguese record "may be reviewed with a view to possible recategorisation in due course". Excellent indeed!

We went back to the site at lunchtime but we haven’t found a single vulture. Most likely they have moved to the direction of Jbel Moussa after we left the area yesterday at about 16:00.