9.5. Casablanca-Lissabon-Helsinki, home sweet home again

Hotellimme oli jo kolmas Ibis -ketjun edustaja matkan varrella, joten laatu oli taattua ja kunnon yöunien jälkeen heräsimme pirteinä. Retkiaikaa olisi ollut muutama tunti, mutta Casablanca on yli kolmen miljoonan asukkaan suurkaupunki, joten retkikohteiden löytäminen ei olisi tapahtunut tuossa tuokiossa! 

Jouni ja Ibis

Panostimme siis rauhalliseen aamiaiseen ja vähitellen siirryimme kohti lentokenttää. Vuokra-auton tankkaus sujui hyvin ja auton palautus samoin, joten kentälle jäi kohtalaisesti luppoaikaa ostoksille. Tapasimme myös Karin ja Mikan, jotka olivat retkeilleet rannikolla ja Keski-Marokossa muutaman päivän. Lintupuolelta on vähän kerrottavaa, mainittavimmat havainnot Jounin yksin näkemä 13 hanhikorppikotkan muuttoparvi, sekä muutama lentokenttärakennuksessa pesivä pikkukiitäjä.

White Airwaysin lento Casablancasta Lissaboniin oli ajoissa ja vaihtoaikaa kolme tuntia. Air Portugalin lakosta huolimatta pääsimme ajoissa matkaan ja koleaan Helsinkiin saavuimme aikataulun mukaisesti aamuvarhaisella. Tunti ja kolme varttia auton ratissa ja viimein seitsemältä olin kotona.

Time to hit the road, Jack

Ajoa tänään noin 15km, uusia retkenpinnoja yksi = 177.

Our triplist from Morocco counts 173 species. Four species seen in Portugal only adds our triplist to 177 species.


Lifers for me were: Small Buttonquail, Lesser Crested Tern, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Egyptian Nightjar, Dupont's Lark, Maghreb Lark, Seebohm's Wheatear, Saharan Olivaceous Warbler, Western Olivaceous Warbler, Atlas Pied Flycatcher, Iberian Pied Flycatcher, Black-crowned Tchagra, Crester Myna, African Crimson-winged Finch. And plenty of other good birds, in good company - my honest thanks to Jari, Jouni, Kalle and Seppo!

	English name	1.5.	2.5.	3.5.	4.5.	5.5.	6.5.	7.5.	8.5.	9.5.
	ANATIDAE
1	Ruddy Shelduck				15
2	Gadwall				25
3	Mallard	x	x	x	1
4	Northern Shoveler				2
5	Common Pochard				4
6	Ferruginous Duck				8
	Black Scoter	1
	PHASIANIDAE
7	Double-spurred Francolin			12
8	Common Quail		5	5
	PODICIPEDIDAE
9	Little Grebe			4	100
10	Great Crested Grebe				10
11	Black-necked Grebe				2000
	PHALACROCORACIDAE
12	Great Cormorant		5		1
	ARDEIDAE
13	Squacco Heron		1
14	Cattle Egret		x	x	x	x	5		300	x
15	Little Egret		5		6
16	Grey Heron				2
17	Purple Heron		1
	CICONIIDAE
18	White Stork		x		x	x		x	x
	THRESKIORNITHIDAE
19	Glossy Ibis		1	2
20	Eurasian Spoonbill		120
	PHOENICOPTERIDAE
21	Greater Flamingo		1
	ACCIPITRIDAE
22	European Honey Buzzard				1		1
23	Black-shouldered Kite		1	3
24	Black Kite		1	5	20	5	1
25	Egyptian Vulture			1
26	Eurasian Griffon Vulture									13
27	Short-toed Eagle							1
28	Western Marsh Harrier			4			1
29	Montagu's Harrier			4
30	Long-legged Buzzard				1				3
31	Booted Eagle			1					4
32	Bonelli's Eagle								1
	FALCONIDAE
33	Lesser Kestrel				4
34	Common Kestrel			x	x	10	5	x	x
35	Eurasian Hobby		1		1
36	Lanner/Pergrine/Barbary Falcon								1
	TURNICIDAE
37	Small Buttonquail		1
	RALLIDAE
38	Common Moorhen				1
39	Eurasian Coot		x	x	40	3
40	Red-Knobbed Coot				500
	HAEMATOPODIDAE
41	Eurasian Oystercatcher		1
	RECURVIROSTRIDAE
42	Black-winged Stilt		1		14
	BURHINIDAE
43	Stone-Curlew			10
	GLAREOLIDAE
44	Cream-coloured Courser				5	5	8	2
45	Collared Pratincole		2
	CHARADRIIDAE
46	Little Ringed Plover							2
47	Common Ringed Plover		60
48	Kentish Plover	1	1
49	Grey Plover		18
	SCOLOPACIDAE
	Sanderling	18
50	Dunlin	1	5
51	Whimbrel		7
52	Common Sandpiper		25		1
53	Ruddy Turnstone	12	1
	LARIDAE
54	Black-headed Gull		1
55	Audouin's Gull		2
56	Lesser Black-backed Gull	2	4
57	Yellow-legged Gull	x	x	x
	STERNIDAE
58	Gull-billed Tern		2
59	Caspian Tern		2
60	Lesser Crested Tern		1
61	Sandwich Tern		25
62	Little Tern		10
	PTEROCLIDIDAE
63	Spotted Sandgrouse						10
64	Pin-tailed Sandgrouse						55	200
	COLUMBIDAE
65	Rock Dove		x		x	x	x	x	x
66	Stock Dove				1
67	Common Woodpigeon		10		x				10
68	Eurasian Collared Dove		x		x	x	x	x	x
69	European Turtle Dove		x		x	x	x	x	x
70	Laughing Dove					4	7	5
	CUCULIDAE
71	Common Cuckoo		7
	STRIGIDAE
72	European Scops Owl		20		1
73	Pharaoh Eagle Owl				1		2
74	Little Owl						4	1
75	Marsh Owl		1
	CAPRIMULGIDAE
76	European Nightjar			15
77	Red-necked Nightjar			1
78	Egyptian Nightjar						1
	APODIDAE
79	Common Swift			30					x	x
80	Pallid Swift			2						x
81	Alpine Swift			500
82	Little Swift		3						4	3
	MEROPIDAE
83	European Bee-eater		1	2		2				1
	CORACIIDAE
84	European Roller				8
	UPUPIDAE
85	Eurasian Hoopoe	1		1	1				1	1
	PICIDAE
86	Levaillant's Green Woodpecker			3					1
87	Great Spotted Woodpecker			1	2
	ALAUDIDAE
88	Desert Lark							1
89	Greater Hoopoe Lark						6
90	Dupont's Lark				2	3
91	Thick-billed Lark					1		2
92	Calandra Lark				7
93	Greater Short-toed Lark				x	x		x
94	Lesser Short-toed Lark				x	x
95	Crested Lark	x	x	x					10
	Maghreb Lark						6
96	Thekla Lark				2	1
97	Wood Lark			2	1				3
98	Eurasian Skylark				1
99	Atlas Horned Lark								20
100	Temminck's Lark				1	1		20
	HIRUNDINIDAE
101	Sand Martin		5
102	Eurasian Crag Martin							5	10
103	Barn Swallow	x	x	x	20		1	x	x
104	Red-rumped Swallow								6
105	Common House Martin		x		1	4		x	x
	MOTACILLIDAE
106	Tree Pipit		1	5
107	Yellow Wagtail		15			3
108	Grey Wagtail			1
109	Moroccan White Wagtail					1
	PYCNONOTIDAE
110	Common Bulbul		5	15	1	3	4	4	4	5
	TROGLODYTIDAE
111	Winter Wren				5				2
	TURDIDAE
112	Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin						4
113	European Robin				2				2
114	Common Nightingale		25			2		25	10
115	Black Redstart	2	2						5
116	Common Redstart				1		1
117	Moussier's Redstart				3			5	10
118	Whinchat		1	1			2
119	Common Stonechat				6
120	Seebohmi's Wheatear				6	1		10
121	Western Black-eared Wheatear				3
122	Desert Wheatear					3		3
123	Red-rumped Wheatear					2		2
124	White-crowned Wheatear					4	20	10
125	Black Wheatear					3
126	Blue Rock Thrush								5
127	Common Blackbird	x	x	x	x				x
128	Mistle Thrush				20				10
	SYLVIIDAE
	Cetti's Warbler	1
129	Zitting Cisticola	x	x	x						1
130	European Reed Warbler		1
131	Saharan Olivaceous Warbler						1	2
132	Western Olivaceous Warbler					3	5	x	x
133	Icterine Warbler						1
134	Melodious Warbler				2
135	Blackcap				3	1
136	African Desert Warbler						4
137	Spectacled Warbler				2
138	Tristram's Warbler								5
139	Sardinian Warbler	x	x	x				x	x
140	Wood Warbler						1
141	Firecrest				5
	MUSCICAPIDAE
142	Spotted Flycatcher			1					1
143	Atlas Pied Flycatcher				15
144	Pied Flycatcher				3			1
	TIMALIIDAE
145	Fulvous Babbler				4
	PARIDAE
146	Coal Tit				1				2
147	African Blue Tit			3	40			x	x
148	Great Tit			5	20	1		x	x
	SITTIDAE
149	Eurasian Nuthatch				4
	CERTHIIDAE
150	Short-toed Treecreeper				20
	ORIOLIDAE
151	Eurasian Golden Oriole		1		2				2
	LANIIDAE
152	Black-crowned Tchagra			4
153	Southern Grey Shrike					1
154	Woodchat Shrike			20	1	2			1
	CORVIDAE
155	Eurasian Jay				3
156	Moroccan Magpie			2
157	Alpine Chough								30
158	Red-billed Chough								150
159	Western Jackdaw		2	5	x
	Carrion Crow	1
160	Common Raven		1		x	70	10		25
	STURNIDAE
161	Spotless Starling		x	x	x	x			x
	Crested Myna	10
	PASSERIDAE
162	House Sparrow	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
163	Desert Sparrow						3
164	Rock Sparrow				2				20
	FRINGILLIDAE
165	Common Chaffinch		x	x	x	x		x	x
166	European Serin	x	x	x	x	x		x	x
167	European Greenfinch			4
168	European Goldfinch				5				5
169	Common Linnet		12	2	3				5
170	African Crimson-winged Finch								4
171	Hawfinch				3
	EMBERIZIDAE
172	House Bunting							10	5
173	Corn Bunting	x	x	x	x	1		2	3
		21	51	24	46	9	11	5	9	1