Description
Our new title, ‘Morocco: sharing the birds’ offers a profile of North Africa’s birding and birdlife in a wide-ranging but succinct introduction and 16 chapters. In many of the book’s chapters, identification pitfalls and taxonomic implications of the sounds are highlighted.
To experience elements of the book, download this exciting new set of promotional sounds from our new title.
Simply click ‘Add to Basket’, fill in your details and use Promo Coupon – MOROCCOPROMO
Sounds within this set of free downloads include:
Two of the species featured in the introduction:
Levaillant’s Woodpecker song: 6USB-1220
Maghreb Treecreeper song: 6USB-1474
Within the book you can read detailed bird sound explanations of all four nightjars of Morocco, all five sandgrouse, all 17 larks and all 10 wheatears. Within the set of free downloads we provide examples of….
To be found in chapter 6, 7, 11 and 12:
Egyptian Nightjar song: 6USB-0042
Spotted Sandgrouse: 6USB-0060
Atlas Horned Lark song: 6USB-0152
Seebohm’s Wheatear song: 6USB-0232
We discuss the history of species quietly slipping into extinction, such as Slender-billed Curlew, Northern Bald Ibis, Houbara Bustard, Aisha’s Double-spurred Francolin and Andalusian Buttonquail, all of which are extensively covered in separate chapters. The free downloads offers a stunning example of…..
To be found in chapter 4:
Aisha’s francolin song: 6USB-0015
There’s exciting new information on new sound identification criteria, with separate chapters, explaining unexpected new sound differences between forms of cisticolas, bonelli’s warblers, scrub warblers and chaffinches. The free download also covers…..
To be found in chapter 13 and 15:
Saharan Scrub Warbler song: 6USB-0278
Atlas Chaffinch: 6USB-0310
Some chapters are devoted to species with extraordinary songs, like Black-crowned Tchagra and Cricket Warbler, or to species with a surprising history of occurrence, eg, Desert Sparrow. The free download concludes beautifully with with recordings of……..
To be found in chapter 10 and 14:
Black-crowned Tchagra song: 6USB-0083
Cricket Warbler song: 6USB-0300
Suggestions for future genetic studies or splits are made by comparing sounds of Maghreb populations with those of the same species elsewhere, often in the Middle East or Arabia.
All this is adding to the notion that endemism in north-western Africa is much more eminent than just one or two decades ago we assumed it to be.