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In this second unedited podcast recording from Morocco Ed talks about the first 2 days experience with Legacy Tours in the areas around Rabat, the Morocco capital city north of Casablanca where the flight landed, and the trip Morocco experience bagan. 

The local guide is Mohamed Bargache, a certified local birding guide, and very good Moroccan in-country guide. 

Tomorrow we head south again, and will be staying in Marrakech, an ancient city and will be birding our way there after a bit more birding in the north coast area.  Stay tuned for more when I'm able to record and publish another update.

Good birding.  Good day!

In this second unedited podcast recording from Morocco Ed talks about the first 2 days experience with Legacy Tours in the areas around Rabat, the Morocco capital city north of Casablanca where the flight landed, and the trip Morocco experience bagan. 

The local guide is Mohamed Bargache, a certified local birding guide, and very good Moroccan in-country guide. 

Tomorrow we head south again, and will be staying in Marrakech, an ancient city and will be birding our way there after a bit more birding in the north coast area.  Stay tuned for more when I'm able to record and publish another update.

Good birding.  Good day!

In this episode Ed does a one-take brief recording from outside the Hotel Toubkal in Casablanca, Morocco about 4:45 AM after a jet-lagged night. Please forgive the errors and the city noise, especially calling Michael Carmody, guest on the last episode, and tour guide whom I call Michael Legacy (his tour group is Legacy Tours) as I'm putting these up unedited, mistakes and city noise and all.

The lark I butcher the name of is the Maghreb Lark, recently split from the Crested Lark as its own species. Here is a link to a PDF discussing the status of this group. https://crbpo.mnhn.fr/IMG/pdf/Guillaumet_et_al_2006_galerida_MolPhylEvol.pdf

I put up a blog post about our day 1 birding on BirdBanter.com  http://birdbanter.com/index.php/2019/04/16/a-day-in-casablanca-to-recover/

Until next time, Good Birding.  Good Day!

In Episode#12 host Ed Pullen has longtime Mexico and worldwide tour guide and operator Michael Carmody as his guest. Michael is currently leading a Legacy Tours birding trip in Morocco, and Ed along with Bruce Labar from episode #3 are tour participants.  Michael talks about his 30 years of experience as a tour guide and operator in Mexico and around the world.  

Here is a link to the Legacy Tours website where you can check out which of Michael's tours you want to go on next. https://legacy-tours.com/

This is the summary from the Legacy Tours website for the trip to Morocco:

‘A Birder’s Introduction’ enjoys evening stays in Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, Atlas Mountains, Sahara Desert, and Anti-Atlas Mountains.  Likely birds include Northern Bald Ibis, Barbary Partridge, Spotted Sandgrouse, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Egyptian Nightjar, Levaillant’s Woodpecker, Maghreb Magpie, African Blue Tit, Greater Hoopoe-Lark, Desert Wheatear, Atlas Flycatcher, and Trumpeter Finch.

Look for photos and updates from the tour on my instagram page @dredpullen as well as my facebook page @birdbanterpodcast  

Good Birding. Good day!

In episode #11 the Birdchick, Sharon Stitler is my guest.  Her podcast was the first podcast I ever listened to and she has a really good podcast. She is quite a character as you will see if you visit her web site Birdchick.com

In this episode I try a new segment where I play a birdsong recording from my Sibley app and the guest talks about what they hear.  This is designed not as a "stump the guest" but as an opportunity for birders to discuss how they listen to bird sounds, and what goes into identifying the species making the song or call.  Sharon rocked this part, check it out. 

Leave a review and rating if you are able on your podcast feed location, and if you like check out my blog, Birdbanter.com to find more related details and other birding relate content. I'll post a video of the hormone crazed DUsky Grouse we talked about on this episode on the blog site. 

Birdchick is an expert at digiscoping, where birders take photos through their optics, usually a spotting scope, using a phone camera or other camera.  Here is a link to her YouTube series on digiscoping.  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj80lDyA_RDDt_vJIPE40sY0u-wjaGziY

Here is a link to the company web site that makes the PhoneSkope adapter Sharon uses. https://www.phoneskope.com/

Until next time birders. Good birding!  Good day!

In The Bird Banter Podcast Episode #10 host Ed Pullen and John Sterling talk about John's remarkable birding career, and especially his recent participation in the Longzhou Bird Race in southern China.  Oh, I neglected to mention that John Sterling is the #1 lister in California, with a remarkable 636 species on eBird.  Enjoy.

Here is a link to Don Roberson's website Who Was Who in California Birding 1965-1989  http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/CAwhoswho.html

Here is John Sterlings website

www.sterlingbirds.com/about%20SWB.html  It's worth a visit just to see his bird photography.  

He is on Facebook where you can follow his adventures.  

You can read related blog posts at BirdBanter.com

http://birdbanter.com/index.php/blog/

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Until next time, Good Birding!  Good Day!