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Algeria

Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor ŠRoss Warner http://rosswarner.com

You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of bird species:396

numbers

Number of endemics:1
Kabylie Nuthatch Sitta ledanti
The Kabylian nuthatch population is about 108. It was discovered in 1975, and it is confined to a forested island on one mountain top in Algeria. Goats and cattle prevent adequate regeneration of nearby vegetation. It is one of the 50 most endangered birds in the world.

useful reading

Oiseaux d'Algerie / The Birds of Algeria

Aissa Moali & Paul Isenmann - SEO 2000
ISBN: 2950654886
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

Proact

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clubs

African Bird Club

http://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/Algeria/introduction.html
Algeria is the second largest country in Africa and much of the interior is unexplored ornithologically. With over 400 species recorded including the endemic Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti and some of the most important wetlands in the Mediterranean area, there is much to interest the visiting birder. Although Algeria's security situation is stabilising, there are still travel risks but French birdwatchers have been visiting the country again since 2002...

reserves

Biodiversity and Protected Areas

http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Bio_cou_012.pdf
pd file with full descriotion of biodiversity of the nation...

Important Bird Areas

http://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/Algeria/ibas.html
Algeria is important for raptors, waterbirds including migrant wintering species, and large steppe birds. It has one endemic species Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti which is a restricted range species, the distribution of which defines the North Algerian mountains secondary Endemic Bird Area. Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti is known from four sites all within 30 km of each other on forested slopes above 1,000 m in the Petite Kabylie mountain range in the Tell region...

Parc National d`El Kala - Lac Oubeďra

http://www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/mag_art140_1.htm
In French - Ce site de 76 438 ha, également déclaré Réserve de la Biosphčre, borde la Mer Méditerranée et comprend une belle mosaďque d'habitats : zones humides, foręts de pins et de chęnes (dont une rare foręt littorale de Pins d'Alep), zones montagneuses et écosystčmes marins. La biodiversité y est trčs importante (818 espčces végétales) et El-Kala constitue en particulier la premičre zone d'hivernage algérienne pour les oiseaux migrateurs...

Parc National d`El Kala - Lac Oubeďra et Lac Tonga

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=6156&m=0
Lac Oubeďra lies about 60 km east of the city of Annaba and 15 km west of the Tunisian border, in the north-east of the country. It forms part of the complex of wetlands included within the Parc National dEl Kala and lies c.10 km west of Lac Tonga (site DZ002). The site lies at 25 m altitude and consists of a shallow (maximum depth 3 m), permanent, eutrophic, freshwater lake surrounded on the three sides by cork oak woodland and maquis...

Parc National d`El Kala - Lac Tonga

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=6157&m=0
The site lies about 70 km to the east of the northern city of Annaba, c.5 km west of the Tunisian border and 10 km east of Lac Oubeďra (site DZ001). It forms part of the complex of wetlands included within the Parc National dEl Kala. The site consists of a marshy basin and a shallow (maximum depth 6 m), seasonal freshwater to brackish, eutrophic lake, bounded on the north by an extensive sand-dune system, through which the lake connects to the Mediterranean Sea via an artificial channel, the Oued Messida...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

tour operators

Birding Pal

http://birdingpal.org/Algier.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

http://www.digimages.info/sitkab/sitkab.htm
Text in french with some - very poor images

Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/picpages/pic161-10-1.html
Reasonable image

Breeding Ecology of Whiskered Terns in Algeria

http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=1524-4695&volume=025&issue=01&page=0056
The distribution of the Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus is scattered, numbers fluctuate and they are threatened in many regions. Its breeding ecology has only occasionally been studied so far. It is relatively common in some North African wetlands. This study was carried out on Lake Tonga, northern Algeria, south of El-Kala...

Checklist

http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?region=dz&pg=checklist&list=clements
This checklist includes all bird species found in Algeria, based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years...

Globally threatened species in Algeria

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMFindResults.asp&hdnAction=SEARCH&hdnPageMode=0&cboCountry=3&cboFamily=-2&cboRegion=-2&chkCR=1&chkEN=1&chkVU=1&z=1
Annotated list...

Les oiseaux d`Algerie

http://www.oiseaux.net/liste/oiseaux.algerie.html
Annotated list [in french]

Ornithologie en Algérie

http://ornithologie.free.fr/site/algerie.html
archived discussion of important birds in the country...

Wetlands

http://www.ramsar.org
The area is of particular importance for wintering water birds, especially Anas penelope, A. strepera, Aythya ferina, A. fuligula and the globally threatened species Oxyura leucocephala...