| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1952 |
| Authors: | Bannerman, D, Priestley., J |
| Journal: | Ibis |
| Volume: | 94 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Date Published: | 1952 |
| ISBN Number: | 1474-919X |
| Keywords: | Alaudidae, Ammomanes, Ammomanes cinctura, Ammomanes cincturus, Cecropis, Cecropis daurica, Circus, Circus pygargus, Eremialector, Eremialector coronatus, Eremophila, Eremophila bilopha, Hirundinidae, Hirundo, Hirundo daurica, Hirundo rustica, Milvus migrans, Morocco, Muscicapidae, Oenanthe, Oenanthe leucopyga, Paludicola, Phoenicurus, Pterocles, Pterocles coronatus, Pteroclidae, Riparia, Riparia paludicola |
| Abstract: | Summary. Only one other ornithologist has investigated the bird-life immediately south of the Great Atlas Range, when Col. Meinertzhagen journeyed from Taroudant to Ksar es Souk in the autumn. We were the first ornithologists to cross the desert between Ksar es Souk and the Grand Erg Occidental by way of Boudenib and Colomb Béchar and to have undertaken the desert journey from Ouarzazate to the Algerian frontier in the early months of the year and list the birds encountered en route. Pterocles coronatus was added to the list of Moroccan buds and significant extensions of range were recorded for the following species: Eremophila bilopha, Oenanthe leucopyga, Oe. moesta, Diplootocus mussieri, Phoenicurus ochrurus, Ammomanes cinctura (arenicolor), Hirundo daurica (rufula), Riparia paludicola and Argja fulva. An account is given of three days' intense migration witnessed at Tangier when during a levante Black Kites and Montagu's Harriers were seen coming to shore from the Atlantic, the Harriers in an exhausted condition. Of interest was the early date, 12 February, when Swallows were passing north in hundreds along the western seaboard. The season in Morocco in January, February and March was a late one and migration across the desert and over the Atlas had barely commenced. The main route of migrants coming north, in so far as we saw it, followed the coast line, but that some migrants cross the Great Atlas range up to 6500 ft. was proved by Chaworth-Musters in the spring of 1937. We were struck by the paucity of vultures throughout Morocco. |
| URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1952.tb01878.x |
| Short Title: | Ibis |
Taxonomic name:
Alaudidae (Birds), Ammomanes (Birds), Ammomanes cinctura (Birds), Cecropis (Birds), Cecropis daurica (Birds), Circus (Birds), Circus pygargus (Birds), Eremophila (Birds), Hirundinidae (Birds), Hirundo (Birds), Hirundo daurica (Birds), Hirundo rustica (Birds), Hirundo rustica (Birds), Milvus migrans (Birds), Muscicapidae (Birds), Oenanthe (Birds), Phoenicurus (Birds), Pterocles (Birds), Pterocles coronatus (Birds), Pterocles coronatus (Birds), Pteroclidae (Birds), Riparia (Birds)