24 December 2010
Today is our last full day in Morocco.
From Merzouga, where we went to the sandy desert yesterday, we go to the region around Erfoud.
8:15: brown-necked raven flying.
10:45: white-crowned wheatear sitting on a heap of sand.
A great grey shrike on a shrub.
A cattle egret drinking in a ditch in an oasis.
12:15: two adult and one juvenile long-legged buzzard sitting on the roof of an abandoned building. A feral pigeon sitting next to them.
This is a house bunting video recorded in Morocco.
12:30: near a restaurant entrance in Boulmane de Dades, house buntings and common bulbul.
At 15:40, we are back at the river near Ouerzazate. Many shoveler ducks.
Grey herons.
At least two squacco herons.
Little grebes.
Many ruddy shelducks.
Chiffchaffs in the reedbeds.
Barn swallows.
Teal.
A snipe flying.
Finally: wood sandpipers.
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