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Algeria, Tamanrasset 3rd (1 Viewer)
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foresttwitcher
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1. Yes, Egyptian Vulture.
RafaelMatias
Unknown member
1. yes, great photo, don't understand the doubt
2. Desert Lark
3. Great Grey Shrike (taxonomy not consensual, but the local taxon is algeriensis: Lanius excubitor algeriensis, per IOC)
4. African Silverbill
5. yes, Red-billed Firefinch
2. Desert Lark
3. Great Grey Shrike (taxonomy not consensual, but the local taxon is algeriensis: Lanius excubitor algeriensis, per IOC)
4. African Silverbill
5. yes, Red-billed Firefinch
spocki
Well-known member
Thank you!
Regarding:
I read somewhere that they always come in flocks and certainly saw them in groups of at least half a dozen individuals in Oman. In Tam, they always came as individuals. Low numbers? Local behaviour just a bit different?
Regarding:
I read somewhere that they always come in flocks and certainly saw them in groups of at least half a dozen individuals in Oman. In Tam, they always came as individuals. Low numbers? Local behaviour just a bit different?
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RafaelMatias
Unknown member
I must make a correction here. For some reason I was assuming coastal Algeria, when the location is well down south (it had to be, with the Firefinches and Silverbill).
L.e. algeriensis occurs in coastal areas, at Tamanrasset it should be L. e. elegans. Sorry for that.
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Low numbers - endangered species, sadly, a victim of (all too often deliberate, illegal) poisoning.
RafaelMatias
Unknown member
Yes, indeed. An every year scarcer bird, seriously threatened. This autumn we had one more nesting pair falling victim of poisoning in northern Portugal. They have disappeared from several former nesting sites. Quite sad. Black (Monk/Cinereous) Vultures seem to be doing better though.
edenwatcher
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The desert lark seems to have barred tail?...
Rob
Rob
Why's that a problem?
edenwatcher
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Looks a bit more pronounced than I would expect.
Rob
Rob
James Lowther
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It’s definitely a desert lark I think. Habitat perfect and big bill
James
James
Simon Wates
Well-known member
My thoughts too...and it has all the jizz
Acrocephalus
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The Egyptian Vultures in southern Algeria (Tamanrasset region and Tassili n'Ajjer) are sedentary, unlike their conspecifics in the north of the country and rest of the Mediterranean region which are migratory (except island populations). Last winter, a colleague who works with the Forestry recorded almost everyday groups of 2-5 birds in the Tassili n'Ajjer. So they do occur is small groups in this area as well. In any case, the species is generally solitary in breeding areas and the only time where they aggregate is at the feeding and roosting places (and that’s the case only for non-breeding adults and immature birds).
spocki
Well-known member
Thanks, this is interesting. I hope to go there soon.
