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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acrocephalus" data-source="post: 3319269" data-attributes="member: 54391">Sorry this is not an ID request per se, but a request of a page published in Birding World 19: 496 about a bird seen in Morocco in December 2006 and thought to be a Tawny Eagle. A bird, later considered the same, was seen in February 2007 and was identified as second-year Spanish Imperial Eagle. (Because of the later observation or independently from it, the ID of the first bird was corrected). Both observations were accepted as Aquila adalberti (as one bird seen again) by the MRBC. Last month, 3 Spanish Imperial Eagles and 6 resident eagles were found electrocuted in southern Morocco. The full report about these electrocutions is available here: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1613292" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1613292</a> And on 7 November, my friend Ali Irizi (who also carried out the main work in October) returned to the region and photographed a <a href="http://moroccanbirds.blogspot.com/2015/11/aquila-adalberti-guelmim.html" target="_blank">Spanish Imperial Eagle, alive this time!</a>Of course the impact of these electrocutions on the eagles (especially the Spanish Imperial Eagle because it's still Vulnerable, and the Bonelli's Eagle because of the high numbers wintering there) worried most of us.But from the other angle (birding, ID), following these observations the question of ‘who is who’ is resurrected again among the Moroccan birding community (yes, there is a small but active birding community in Morocco). So, I would be thankful if someone can scan the mentioned page, or direct me to any photos of the December bird, if there are any on the Internet. Photos of the <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232816128_Les_oiseaux_rares_au_Maroc._Rapport_de_la_Commission_d'Homologation_Marocaine_numro_14_%282008%29" target="_blank">February bird are in the MRBC report</a> (note that the legend of the photos says "16 décembre 2006" but it was only a mistake, they were from February 2007)</blockquote>

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