Cumulative Checklist
with James Lidster as leader
- Column A = Number of tours out of nine on which this species has been recorded.
- Column B = Number of days this species was seen on the 2012 tour.
- Column C = Maximum daily count for this species on the 2012 tour.
- Column D = H = Heard
This list has taxonomic notes.
| A | B | C | D | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Little Grebe | 3 | 4 | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| 5 | Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |||
| 9 | Great Crested Grebe | 1 | 6 | Podiceps cristatus | |
| 7 | Gannet | 1 | 300 | Sula bassanus | |
| 4 | Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |||
| 9 | Moroccan Cormorant | 2 | 3 | Phalacrocorax carbo maroccanus | |
| 9 | Great Cormorant | 3 | 10 | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| 8 | Squacco Heron | 1 | 2 | Ardeola ralloides | |
| 5 | Little Bittern | 1 | 3 | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| 9 | Cattle Egret | 7 | 50 | Bubulcus ibis | |
| 9 | Little Egret | 5 | 20 | Egretta garzetta | |
| 2 | Great Egret | Egretta alba | |||
| 9 | Grey Heron | 5 | 30 | Ardea cinerea | |
| 6 | Purple Heron | 4 | 3 | Ardea purpurea | |
| 4 | Black-crowned Night Heron | 2 | 5 | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| 9 | White Stork | 7 | 60 | Ciconia ciconia | |
| 1 | Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |||
| 9 | Eurasian Spoonbill | 3 | 5 | Platalea leucorodia | |
| 5 | Glossy Ibis * | 1 | 60 | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| 5 | Northern Bald Ibis * | 2 | 55 | Geronticus eremita | |
| 9 | Greater Flamingo | 4 | 97 | Phoenicopterus ruber | |
| 9 | Ruddy Shelduck | 5 | 50 | Tadorna ferruginea | |
| 1 | Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |||
| 2 | Gadwall | 1 | 2 | Anas strepera | |
| 9 | Mallard | 3 | 10 | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| 6 | Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |||
| 3 | Garganey | Anas querquedula | |||
| 6 | Common Teal | Anas crecca | |||
| 7 | Northern Shoveler | Anas clypeata | |||
| 9 | Marbled Duck | 3 | 50 | Marmaronetta angustirostris | |
| 6 | Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | |||
| 3 | Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | |||
| 4 | Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | |||
| 1 | Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |||
| 7 | Black-shouldered Kite | 1 | 1 | Elanus caeruleus | |
| 8 | Black Kite | 4 | 10 | Milvus migrans | |
| 8 | Short-toed Snake-Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |||
| 1 | Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | |||
| 8 | Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | |||
| 8 | Western Marsh Harrier | 3 | 2 | Circus aeruginosus | |
| 4 | Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |||
| 9 | Atlas' Long-legged Buzzard | 5 | 3 | Buteo rufinus cirtensis | |
| 2 | Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | |||
| 4 | Golden Eagle | 1 | 1 | Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 9 | Booted Eagle | 5 | 20 | Aquila pennata | |
| 9 | Bonelli's Eagle | 2 | 2 | Aquila fasciata | |
| 9 | Osprey | 1 | 1 | Pandion haliaetus | |
| 4 | Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |||
| 9 | Common Kestrel | 11 | 20 | Falco tinnunculus | |
| 1 | Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |||
| 1 | Eurasian Hobby | 1 | 1 | Falco subbuteo | |
| 8 | Lanner Falcon | 4 | 1 | Falco biarmicus | |
| 6 | Barbary Falcon | 3 | 1 | Falco pelegrinoides | |
| 5 | Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |||
| 9 | Barbary Partridge | 3 | 5 | Alectoris barbara | |
| 8 | Common Moorhen | 2 | 10 | Gallinula chloropus | |
| 9 | Eurasian Coot | 5 | 100 | Fulica atra | |
| 1 | Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |||
| 1 | Baillon's Crake | Porzana pusilla | |||
| 2 | Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | |||
| 2 | Little Crake | 1 | 2 | Porzana parva | |
| 1 | Houbara Bustard | Chlamydotis undulata | |||
| 9 | Eurasian Oystercatcher | 1 | 15 | Haematopus ostralegus | |
| 9 | Black-winged Stilt | 5 | 200 | Himantopus himantopus | |
| 6 | Pied Avocet | 4 | 15 | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| 7 | Eurasian Stone-curlew | Burhinus oedicnemus | |||
| 9 | Cream-coloured Courser | 5 | 10 | Cursorius cursor | |
| 6 | Collared Pratincole | 4 | 3 | Glareola pratincola | |
| 9 | Little Ringed Plover | 6 | 5 | Charadrius dubius | |
| 8 | Ringed Plover | 5 | 400 | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| 7 | Kentish Plover | 3 | 30 | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| 8 | Grey Plover | 2 | 30 | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| 9 | Sanderling | 2 | 10 | Calidris alba | |
| 7 | Little Stint | 3 | 10 | Calidris minuta | |
| 1 | Temminck's Stint | 1 | 1 | Calidris temminckii | |
| 4 | Curlew Sandpiper | 6 | 200 | Calidrid ferruginea | |
| 9 | Dunlin | 3 | 200 | Calidris alpina | |
| 2 | Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |||
| 3 | Ruff | Philomachus pugnax | |||
| 4 | Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |||
| 9 | Black-tailed Godwit | 1 | 1 | Limosa limosa | |
| 6 | Bar-tailed Godwit | 2 | 15 | Limosa lapponica | |
| 8 | Eurasian Whimbrel | 3 | 40 | Numenius phaeopus | |
| 5 | Eurasian Curlew | 2 | 2 | Numenius arquata | |
| 4 | Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |||
| 9 | Common Redshank | 5 | 50 | Tringa totanus | |
| 9 | Common Greenshank | 5 | 30 | Tringa nebularia | |
| 8 | Green Sandpiper | 3 | 1 | Tringa ochropus | |
| 6 | Wood Sandpiper | 4 | 6 | Tringa glareola | |
| 8 | Common Sandpiper | 5 | 20 | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| 6 | Ruddy Turnstone | 2 | 3 | Arenaria interpres | |
| 2 | Great Skua | Catharacta skua | |||
| 2 | Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | |||
| 1 | Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |||
| 7 | Mediterranean Gull | 1 | 1 | Larus melanocephalus | |
| 9 | Black-headed Gull | 2 | 30 | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| 5 | Slender-Billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | |||
| 9 | Audouin's Gull | 3 | 20 | Larus audouinii | |
| 9 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 4 | 200 | Larus fuscus graellsii/intermedius | |
| 9 | Yellow-legged Gull | 5 | 200 | Larus michahellis | |
| 7 | Gull-billed Tern | 6 | 50 | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| 9 | Sandwich Tern | 3 | 70 | Sterna sandvicensis | |
| 1 | Lesser-crested Tern | Sterna bengalensis | |||
| 3 | Common Tern | 1 | 3 | Sterna hirundo | |
| 1 | Little Tern | Sterna albifrons | |||
| 8 | Caspian Tern | 1 | 1 | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| 5 | Whiskered Tern | 2 | 3 | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| 4 | Black Tern | 5 | 20 | Chlidonias niger | |
| 7 | Black-bellied Sandgrouse | 1 | 11 | Pterocles orientalis | |
| 5 | Crowned Sandgrouse | Pterocles coronatus | |||
| 4 | Spotted Sandgrouse | 1 | 8 | Pterocles senegallus | |
| 1 | Pin-tailed Sandgrouse | Pterocles alchata | |||
| 9 | Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon | 9 | 10 | Columba livia | |
| 9 | Woodpigeon | 6 | 20 | Columba palumbus | |
| 2 | Stock Dove | Columba oenas | |||
| 9 | Eurasian Collared Dove | 10 | 30 | Streptopelia decaocto | |
| 8 | European Turtle Dove | 8 | 150 | Streptopelia turtur | |
| 9 | Laughing Dove | 5 | 10 | Streptopelia senegalensis | |
| 4 | Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |||
| 6 | Pharaoh Eagle Owl | 1 | 2 | Bubo ascalaphus | |
| 1 | Maghreb Tawny Owl | Strix aluco mauritanica | |||
| 1 | Scops Owl | Otus scops | |||
| 9 | Little Owl | 2 | 2 | Athene noctua | |
| 1 | Red-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus ruficollis | |||
| 8 | Egyptian Nightjar | 1 | 3 | Caprimulgus aegyptius | |
| 6 | Alpine Swift | 1 | 20 | Apus melba | |
| 9 | Pallid Swift | 7 | 100 | Apus pallidus | |
| 4 | Common Swift | 6 | 500 | Apus apus | |
| 9 | Little Swift | 3 | 4 | Apus affinis | |
| 9 | Eurasian Hoopoe | 6 | 2 | Upupa epops | |
| 6 | Common Kingfisher | 1 | 1 | Alcedo athis | |
| 9 | European Bee-eater | 8 | 200 | Merops apiaster | |
| 8 | Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | 2 | 5 | Merops persicus | |
| 1 | European Roller | 2 | 2 | Coracias garrulus | |
| 9 | Eurasian Wryneck | 3 | 1 | Jynx torquilla | |
| 9 | Levaillant's Woodpecker | 2 | 1 | Picus vaillantii | |
| 6 | Great spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | Dendrocops major | |
| 9 | Bar-tailed Lark | 2 | 5 | Ammomanes cincturus | |
| 9 | Desert Lark | 1 | 5 | Ammomanes deserti | |
| 9 | Greater Hoopoe Lark | 4 | 10 | Alaemon alaudipes | |
| 8 | Thick-billed Lark | 3 | 6 | Rhamphocoris clotbey | |
| 9 | Greater Short-toed Lark | 5 | 100 | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| 8 | Lesser Short-toed Lark | 1 | 4 | Calandrella rufescens | |
| 9 | Crested Lark | 2 | 2 | Galerida cristata | |
| 9 | Long-billed Crested Lark | 2 | 8 | Galerida macrorhyncha | |
| 9 | Thekla Lark | 5 | 20 | Lullula arborea | |
| 6 | Woodlark | Galerida theklae | |||
| 2 | Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |||
| 9 | 'Atlas' Horned Lark | 2 | 20 | Eremophila alpestris atlas | |
| 9 | Temminck's Lark | 3 | 20 | Eremophila bilopha | |
| 9 | Sand Martin | 3 | 30 | Riparia riparia | |
| 5 | Brown-throated Martin * | 1 | 3 | Riparia paludicola | |
| 6 | Eurasian Crag Martin | 4 | 10 | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| 9 | Barn Swallow | 10 | 100 | Hirundo rustica | |
| 9 | Red-rumped Swallow | 4 | 5 | Cecropis daurica | |
| 8 | House Martin | 8 | 100 | Delichon urbicum | |
| 1 | Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |||
| 7 | Tree Pipit | 4 | 1 | Anthus trivialis | |
| 6 | Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |||
| 5 | Water Pipit | 1 | 2 | Anthus spinoletta | |
| 5 | Tawny Pipit | 1 | 2 | Anthus campestris | |
| 9 | Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail | 7 | 50 | Motacilla flava flava | |
| 1 | British Yellow Wagtail | 2 | 3 | Motacilla flava flavissima | |
| 4 | Ashy-headed Yellow Wagtail | 1 | 5 | Motacilla flava cinereocapilla | |
| 1 | Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail | 1 | 1 | Motacilla flava thunbergi | |
| 9 | Spanish Wagtail | 4 | 5 | Motacilla iberiae | |
| 8 | Yellow wagtail sp | 4 | 10 | Motacilla flava sp | |
| 9 | Grey Wagtail | 2 | 4 | Motacilla cinerea | |
| 7 | White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |||
| 8 | Moroccan Wagtail | 1 | 2 | Motacilla subpersonata | |
| 9 | Common Bulbul | 10 | 10 | Pycnonotus barbatus | |
| 9 | Winter Wren | 1 | 1 | H | Troglodytes troglodytes |
| 9 | White-throated Dipper | 1 | 1 | Cinclus cinclus | |
| 4 | Alpine Accentor | 1 | 1 | Prunella collaris | |
| 8 | European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |||
| 2 | Rufous Bush Robin | 1 | 2 | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| 9 | Common Nightingale | 8 | 10 | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| 6 | Bluethroat | 1 | 1 | Luscinia svecica | |
| 9 | Black Redstart | 4 | 10 | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| 9 | Common Redstart | 4 | 10 | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| 9 | Moussier's Redstart | 7 | 10 | Phoenicurus moussieri | |
| 6 | Whinchat | 3 | 2 | Saxicola rubetra | |
| 7 | European Stonechat | 1 | 10 | Saxicola torquata | |
| 9 | Northern Wheatear | 3 | 2 | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| 1 | Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | |||
| 9 | Seebohm's Wheatear | 4 | 3 | Oenanthe seebohmi | |
| 9 | Desert Wheatear | 5 | 20 | Oenanthe deserti | |
| 9 | Western Black-eared Wheatear | 7 | 8 | Oenanthe hispanica | |
| 4 | Maghreb Wheatear | 1 | 4 | Oenanthe halophila | |
| 9 | Red-rumped Wheatear | 3 | 10 | Oenanthe moesta | |
| 9 | White-crowned Wheatear | 4 | 20 | Oenanthe leucopyga | |
| 9 | Black Wheatear | 3 | 8 | Oenanthe leucura | |
| 8 | Blue Rock Thrush | 4 | 2 | Monticola solitarius | |
| 2 | Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush | 1 | 2 | Monticola saxatilis | |
| 9 | Common Blackbird | 11 | 10 | Turdus merula | |
| 2 | Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |||
| 9 | Mistle Thrush | 3 | 3 | Turdus viscivorus | |
| 9 | Cetti's Warbler | 1 | 2 | Cettia cetti | |
| 9 | Zitting Cisticola | 4 | 20 | Cisticola juncidis | |
| 5 | Scrub Warbler | 1 | 6 | Scotocerca inquieta | |
| 6 | Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |||
| 7 | Eurasian Reed Warbler | 1 | 10 | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| 3 | Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |||
| 3 | Melodious Warbler | 5 | 5 | Hippolais polyglotta | |
| 8 | Western Olivaceous Warbler | 4 | 20 | Hippolais opaca | |
| 4 | Saharan' Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | 1 | 1 | Hippolais pallidus reiseri | |
| 3 | Olivaceous Warbler sp. | 2 | 1 | Hippolais opaca/pallidus | |
| 8 | Tristram's Warbler | 2 | 5 | Sylvia deserticola | |
| 9 | Spectacled Warbler | 1 | 1 | Sylvia conspicillata | |
| 7 | Common Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | |||
| 9 | Western' Subalpine Warbler | 6 | 10 | Sylvia cantillans | |
| 9 | Sardinian Warbler | 5 | 20 | Sylvia melanocephala | |
| 7 | African Desert Warbler | 1 | 1 | Sylvia deserti | |
| 8 | Blackcap | 4 | 1 | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| 3 | Garden Warbler | 2 | 2 | Slyvia borin | |
| 5 | Western Orphean Warbler | 2 | 3 | Sylvia hortensis | |
| 9 | Western Bonelli's Warbler | 6 | 10 | Phylloscopus bonelli | |
| 6 | Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |||
| 1 | Iberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus ibericus | |||
| 9 | Willow Warbler | 5 | 20 | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| 1 | Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |||
| 1 | Firecrest | 1 | 1 | Regulus ignicapilla | |
| 4 | Spotted Flycatcher | 3 | 4 | Muscicapa striata | |
| 3 | European Pied Flycatcher | 3 | 3 | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| 9 | Fulvous Babbler | 1 | 1 | Turdoides fulvus | |
| 8 | Coal Tit | 2 | 5 | Periparus ater | |
| 9 | African Blue Tit | 3 | 6 | Cyanistes ultramarinus | |
| 9 | Great Tit | 4 | 2 | Parus major | |
| 8 | Black-crowned Tchagra | 2 | 3 | Tchagra senegala | |
| 9 | Desert Grey Shrike | 8 | 10 | Lanius elegans/algeriensis | |
| 9 | Woodchat Shrike | 9 | 30 | Lanius senator | |
| 9 | Maghreb Magpie | 4 | 10 | Pica mauritanica | |
| 9 | Alpine Chough | 3 | 300 | Pyrrhocorax graculus | |
| 9 | Red-billed Chough | 3 | 100 | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | |
| 9 | Northern Raven | 3 | 2 | Corvus corax tingitanus | |
| 9 | Brown-necked Raven | 2 | 45 | Corvus ruficollis | |
| 9 | Spotless Starling | 5 | 100 | Sturnus unicolor | |
| 2 | Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |||
| 1 | European Golden Oriole | 2 | 3 | Oriolus oriolus | |
| 9 | House Sparrow | 10 | 10 | Passer domesticus | |
| 1 | Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |||
| 6 | Spanish Sparrow | 1 | 30 | Passer hispaniolensis | |
| 9 | Desert Sparrow | 1 | 1 | Passer simplex | |
| 8 | Rock Sparrow | 4 | 10 | Petronia petronia | |
| 2 | European Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |||
| 9 | Atlas' Chaffinch | 8 | 50 | Fringilla coelebs africana | |
| 2 | Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |||
| 9 | European Serin | 6 | 70 | Serinus serinus | |
| 9 | European Greenfinch | 3 | 10 | Carduelis chloris | |
| 9 | European Goldfinch | 6 | 20 | Carduelis carduelis | |
| 9 | Common Linnet | 3 | 10 | Carduelis cannabina | |
| 2 | Atlas' Common' Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra poliogyna | |||
| 7 | African' Crimson-winged Finch | 3 | 60 | Rhodopechys alienus | |
| 9 | Trumpeter Finch | 4 | 30 | Bucanetes githagineus | |
| 3 | Hawfinch | 1 | 2 | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| 9 | Cirl Bunting | 3 | 3 | Emberiza cirlus | |
| 8 | Rock Bunting | 2 | 4 | Emberiza cia | |
| 9 | House Bunting | 9 | 20 | Emberiza striolata | |
| 2 | Ortolan Bunting | 3 | 3 | Emberiza hortulana | |
| 9 | Corn Bunting | 2 | 20 | Miliaria calandra |
Taxonomic Notes
Species marked with an * have only been possible since we added Agadir to the tour in 2009, and therefore not respective.