Tour 8: Short birding trip to the Atlantic Coast & Agadir
(5 days / 4 nights)
Tour Dates 2022:
25 – 29 September 2022 (Spaces Available)
25 – 29 October 2022 (Spaces Available)
25 – 29 November 2022 (Spaces Available)
NOTE: If you have a specific date please let us know your arrival and departure dates!
Tour Cost: The price is depends on number of participants, for the price please contact us!
Group Size: Max 7 people, if you are a tour company or big group please contact us!
Tour starting/ending: Agadir airport, Morocco
Price includes:
* Comfortable transport.
* 4 Nights hotel accommodation en-suite rooms and Half-board
* Guiding services and general assistance where and when required.
Price excludes:
* International airfare
* Lunches & drinks
* Travel insurance
* Item of a personal nature and tips
Target Birds on this trip: Northern Bald Ibis, Marbled duck, Black crowned Tchagra, Moussier’s redstart, Barbary Falcon, Little Swift, Black Wheatear, Tristram’s Warbler, Rock Bunting, House Bunting, Little Owl, Laughing Dove, Audouin’s gull, Greater flamingos, Brown-throated Martin, Barbary Partridge,…etc!
ITINERARY
Day 1: Agadir Airport
Meet and welcome you at Agadir airport and transfer to the hotel for check in, we will spend couple of hours birding around, then back to the hotel for some rest and get ready to the next day.
Dinner and accommodation in Agadir.
Day 2: Agadir – Cap Rhir -Tamri Estuary
After breakfast, we will head north, stopping firstly at a beach where there will be Lesser Black-backed Gulls of two races, Audouin’s Gulls and a few Yellow-legged Gulls and then at Cap Rhir for a seawatch. We will continue north to Tamri to search in the scrub and fields adjacent to the coast for the Northern Bald Ibis. Late in the afternoon we travel back to Agadir.
Dinner and accommodation in Agadir.
Day 3: Oued Massa – Oued Souss
South of Agadir is the famous Oued Massa. We have an early start to Oued Massa on the Atlantic Coast. Target birds: the secretive Black-crowned Tchagra, Marbled Duck, Moroccan Cormorant, Moussier’s Redstart, Glossy Ibis, Laughing Dove, Sardinian Warbler and Brown-throated Martin.
Later we visit the Oued Souss – an excellent area for Flamingos, shorebirds and large numbers of roosting gulls and terns.
Dinner and accommodation in Agadir.
Day 4: Paradise Valley & Immouzzer
After a leisurely breakfast, we set off north-east along the mountain road towards Paradise Valley and Immouzzer and our target birds are: Blue rock Thrush, Bonelli’s Eagle, Crag Martin, Black Wheatear, Tristam’s Warbler, Barbary Partridge, Black Redstart and Little Swift. Late in the afternoon we travel back to Agadir.
Dinner and accommodation in Agadir.
Day 5: Agadir – Airport
If time allows some more birding in the Agadir area, then transfer to the airport where the trip ends.
NOTE: This is a flexible itinerary which may be adjusted to allow for changes in arrival and departure times, weather conditions and other related factors.
MORE INFORMATION
Accommodation: We stay in a selection of comfortable hotel, all rooms are en-suite.
Food: All hotels provide a simple breakfast typical of Morocco, consisting of fresh bread, butter, honey and jam. Fruit juice and tea or coffee is also available. For lunch we will have picnic lunches when out in the field. Evening meals will be a mixture of local and international dishes.
Walking: The tour is not strenuous. Leisurely walking, very occasionally over moderately rough terrain, is the only physical requirement on most days. Most birding is done close to our vehicle, though we will need to walk to see mountain species, and some exertion will be required in mountain environments. There will be the option to stay close to the vehicle, should anyone wish to go back.
Weather: Typical temperatures. Changeable and sometimes cold, windy or wet weather is very possible on the Atlantic and the Atlas Mountains, so bring a warm jacket, gloves, warm layers and adequate rainwear.
Group size: Max 7 people, if you are a tour company or big group please contact us!
ROUTE MAP
YOUR LOCAL EXPERT BIRD GUIDE:
Brahim Mezane was born in the sahara desert of Morocco in 1986, having a Berber father and mother. He has been an enthusiastic birder since he was 15 years old and has been bird watching all over Morocco. He has been working a several years of guiding for other companies and has led many very successful tours to all over Morocco. In 2013 Brahim created a bird guide company in Morocco called Gayuin Birding Tours to be able to offer his own tours and activities. He speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Berber.
