Finding Birds in Morocco: the deserts
Dave Gosney
Updated 2018 version.
Compared to other publications covering the same area, this one:
- Provides the most useful maps - so you can easily find your way to the best bits of wetland, plain or woodland
- Includes GPS co-ordinates to help you find the right turnings, parking spaces or viewing points
- Highlights the best areas only - and summarises the key attraction in the first paragraph so you can easily decide whether to read on or bother to visit the site
- Has a map on the inside cover which serves as an index so you can easily find any site in the book
- Is light and portable (and cheap)
Sites covered:
- Zeida Plain including precise details of where to get good views of Dupont's Lark.
- Erfoud including Hotel Said and sites for Desert Warbler and Egyptian Nightjar.
- Rissani including specific sites for Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Saharan Olivaceous Warbler and Egyptian Nightjar.
- Merzouga including Auberge Yasmina, Auberge Derkaoua, Dayet Srji and the best site for Desert Sparrow.
- Erfoud to Boumalne including a reliable site for Scrub Warbler.
- The Tagdilt track including a regular drinking pool for Crowned Sandgrouse and a reliable site for Mourning Wheatear.
- Around Ouarzazate including notes on where Mourning Wheatears and Thick-billed Larks have been found.
- The Sous Valley including a reliable site for Egyptian Nightjar, where to look for Western Orphean Warbler, Fulvous Babbler and Moroccan Magpie and a new site for Hoopoe Lark and Desert Wheatear near Taroudannt.
- 'The southern routes' - the roads between Goulimine, Agdz and Mhamid where birders can now look for Desert Sparrow, Spotted Sandgrouse, Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse, etc.
- Goulimine area including where to look for Scrub Warbler and Thick-billed Lark.
32 pages.
Softback £9.50 £8.50
