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Audouin’s Gull, Dakhla, 07.04.2010 We stayed at Hotel Cyber, which is situated in a smaller road on the right of the main road through Dakhla. We paid 200 MD for a double room for 2 nights and had a very slow internet connection. It may be helpful to note that the northernmost roundabout of Dakhla seems to be a very popular place for the local police to hunt tourists with their speed traps. I was a victim of this game and had to pay 400 MD. Every time we drove in or out of town we saw the police standing there. 08.04. Aswerd Road, Dakhla Bay To reach the famous km 41 on Aswerd road in first light, we left Dakhla at 4:15 a.m. On our way we watched a group of 4 Golden Jackals and some small unidentified hares. We witnessed a gorgeous sunrise at km 41 and soon found our target birds. Km 41 at Aswerd Road, 08.04.2010 Desert Sparrows were fairly abundant in the few trees while the distinctive call of Cricket Warbler was a great help to locate the birds in the spiky grass clumps. After a brief search we found a small flock of Black-crowned Finch-Larks feeding on the sandy ground between the grass clumps. After a couple of hours we visited km 43, where we found African Dunn’s Lark close to a pair each of Desert and Bar-tailed Larks. Here we also had a Lanner Falcon and a Long-legged Buzzard of race cirtensis. 6
Desert Sparrow, Oued Yenna, 08.04.2010 Black-crowned Finch-Lark, Km 41, Aswerd Road, 08.04.2010 Our next stop at Oued Jenna produced more Desert Sparrows and a group of 6 Fulvous Babblers. After a short visit to the almost deserted town of Aswerd we headed back to km 41 to obtain closer views of Desert Sparrows and Black-crowned Finch-Larks. On our way back to Dakhla we made a last stop on the Aswerd road at km 72 before Dakhla next to a water pond, which is supposed to be good for Crowned and Spotted Sandgrouse at 9 a.m. We observed one African Rock Martin, but were too late for sandgrouse. We then drove back to Dakhla Bay where we started our search for terns at 5 p.m. We stopped at the second public beach approximately 18 km before Dakhla and found at least 6 African Royal Terns in breeding plumage along with enormous numbers of waders and other waterfowl. African Royal Tern, Dakhla Bay, 08.04.2010 After an extremely successful day we were very satisfied and also pleased to return safe from the area, which is potentially mined. Especially at km 41 and Oued Jenna there are many footprints of both humans and dromedaries in the sand. Nevertheless, we all felt very uneasy following the birds for some hundred meters away from the tarmac road. 7
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