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Last Day on the Edge of the Sahara Desert Birding

We looked long and hard, but finally found two Desert Sparrows at a desert camel safari place.

Today we wrapped up the birding on the edge of the Sahara Desert by looking for and finding Desert Sparrow and Fulvous Chatterer. Both took more effort than expected, but we had great looks at the Sparrow, and brief in-flight looks at the Chatterer. Tomorrow we leave for a 6 hour drive to Ifrane, with birding stops along the way. I’ll simply put up some photos from today to show the day:
Here are both the male and female Desert Sparrow.

Camels at the sparrow place.
This is the color of Sahara Desert Sand.
This fellow was a tough to see bird, Western Orphinean Warbler.
European Kestrel, a bird we had seen every day until yeasterday. Today we started a new streak.
After a good lunch stop we again visited the lake near Merzouga. The rest of the photos are from there.
Marcus counted 4000+ Greater Flamingos.
Across the lake the sand dunes were impressive.

Good birding. Good day!