After a succesfull trip to Costa Rica together last year, we teamed up again with our friends Erik and Jonne Kleyheeg
for a quest (for Rick his second after a trip in 2005) in search for some desert species in Southern Morocco.
We started our 2 weeks journey in Marrakech, visited the High and Middle Atlas, before we drove to the Tafilalt
and find some true desert species near Rissani and the Erg Chebbi. From there we travelled to
the coast near Agadir (Souss Massa National Park), visiting the Gorges du Todra and Dades along the route,
and back to Marrakech again. We stayed in Morocco from 10 to 25 March, 2016.

Again a succesfull trip, seeing all the major targets for a visit to Southern Morocco (except for
Desert Sparrow, as we did not enter the sand dunes of the Erg Chebbi), with some highlights like African Desert Warbler,
Pharoah Eagle Owl, Egyptian Nightjar and of course Northern Bald Ibis. In total we managed to see 209 species of birds,
13 species of mammal and 17 species of reptile and amphibian.

Click here to see the photo's of Erik and Jonne Kleyheeg.