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WESTERN SAHARA

Friday 24th March - Friday 31st March 2017

Mark Beaman

Golden Nightjar is THE bird of Western Sahara (Mark Beaman)

Our first ever Western Sahara tour was a great success. Not only did we observe such star birds as Golden Nightjar, White-throated Bee-eater, African Dunn’s Lark, Desert Sparrow and Sudan Golden Sparrow, but we also scored highly on the mammals that have made spotlighting on the Aousserd Road famous: Sand Cat, Rüppell’s Fox, the wonderful Fennec Fox and Saharan Striped Polecat. You definitely do not go to Western Sahara for a big bird and mammal list (our bird list totalled 86 species and our mammal list 11 species): instead you go for some really great birds and some seriously fantastic mammals that are extremely hard to see elsewhere, plus a real adventure in a little-visited corner of the world.