Cream-coloured Courser, Sahara Desert, Southern Morocco, Feb 2018. It’s standing by a desert plant in a stoney desert. A beautiful sandy-buff wader with pale legs, short curved bill, and a blue grey rear crown, bold white supercilum, and black eye stripe. Black in the wing just visible.
Beautiful!
Cream-coloured Courser, Sahara Desert, Southern Morocco, Feb 2018.
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Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major thanneri (female) perched on horizontal pine branch, picnic area, Llanos de la Pez, Gran Canaria. Black and white woodpecker with grey flush to underparts and extensive red on rear underparts (belly, flanks and under tail).
Handsome bird!
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Llanos de la Pez, Gran Canaria, Nov 2023.
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Raven Corvus corax canariensis, Llanos de la Pez, Gran Canaria. Calling Raven with glossy black plumage standing below pines. The bird stands out against a pale background of fallen pine needles.
Badass bird!
Raven, Llanos de la Pez, Gran Canaria, 23rd Nov 2023.
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Red-billed Chough standing on a snow mound against a pale blue sky, Oukaïmeden ski resort.
Two Alpine Chough perched on a metal bar construction of some sort against a blue sky, Oukaïmeden ski resort.
More snow birds from the archives. 🐦❄️
Red-billed and Alpine Chough, Oukaïmeden ski resort, Morocco, Feb 2018.
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Small flock of African Crimson-winged Finches, standing on trampled snow, clearing up at the end of the day, Oukaïmeden ski resort.
More snow birds. ❄️🐦
African Crimson-winged Finch, Oukaïmeden ski resort, Morocco, Feb 2018.
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Snow borb from the archives.
Atlas Horned Lark, Oukaïmeden ski resort, Morocco, Feb 2018.
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