Libya
 

References

AZAFZAF, H., BACCETTI, N., DEFOS du RAU, P., DLENSI, H., ESSGHAIER, M.F.A., ETAYEB, K.S., HAMZA, A., and SMART, M. (2006) Wetlands and wintering water birds in Libya in January 2005 and 2006. Wildfowl 56 pp 172-191.

AZAFZAF, H., BACCETTI, N., DEFOS du RAU, P., DLENSI, H., ESSGHAIER, M.F.A., ETAYEB, K.S., HAMZA, A., and SMART, M. (2005) Wintering Cormorants in Libya. Wetlands International Cormorant Resarch Group Bulletin No. 6. pp 46-48.

AZAFZAF, H., ETAYEB, K. and HAMZA, H. (2006) Report on the census of Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis in the Eastern coast of Libya. (1-7 August 2006). EGA, RAC/SPA-MAP-UNEP. pp 31.

BAKER, N.E. (1984) Counts of Greater Flamingos in eastern Libya. Flamingo Working Group. Newsletter No. 2.

BAKER, N.E. (1982) Notes on some Libyan Birds. Bull. Orn. Soc. Middle East. 8 p 4.

BAKER, N.E. (1980) The diurnal raptors of Cyrenaica: Eastern Libya. Cyclostyled Report to ICBP.

BirdLife International (2000) Threatened Birds of the World. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.

BREHME, S., HERING, J. & FUCHS, E. (2009): Nachtaktivität von Fahlseglern Apus pallidus im Zentrum von Tripoli/Libyen. Ornithol. Mitt. 61 pp 266-268.

BREHME, S., HERING, J. & FUCHS, E. (2010): Beginnende Ausbreitung der Türkentaube Streptopelia decaocto im Westen Libyens. Vogelwelt 130 pp 195-199.

BREHME, S., HERING, J. & FUCHS, E. (2010): Zum Vorkommen der Sumpfohreule Asio flammeus in Libyen. Vogelwelt 130 pp 189-194.

BUNDY, G. (1976) The Birds of Libya. British Ornithological Union Checklist 1.

COWAN, P.J. (1981) Birds in West Central Libya. Bull. BOC 102 pp 32-35.

DE FAVERI, A. and BACCETTI, N. (2010) Correction of three historical bird records from Libya. ABC Bulletin 17(1) p. 85.

ETAYEB, K. S. and ESSGHAIER, M. F. A. ( 2007) Breeding of marine birds on Farwa Island, Western Libya. Ostrich 78 (2) pp 419-421.

ETAYEB, K., ESSGHAIER, M. F., HAMZA, A., SMATR, M., AZAFZAF, H., DEFOS du RAU, P. and DLENSI, H. (2007) Report on an Ornithological Survey in Libya from 3 to 15 February 2007. EGA-AEWA-RAC/SPA-MAP-UNEP pp 46.

DE LIEDEKERKE, R.(2001) Precisions on the avifauni of Western Libya. Alauda 69 pp 553-554.

GASKELL, J. (2005) Recent changes in the status and distribution of birds in Libya. Sandgrouse 27(2) pp 126-138.

HERING, J. (2008): Duschende Störche und Fütterung bei 50° C: Weißstörche in der Zentralsahara entdeckt! Falke 55 pp 390-394.

HERING, J. (2009): Beitrag zur Wintervogelwelt Libyens. Vogelwarte 47 pp 5-22.

HERING, J. (2010): Ein Überwinterungsplatz in der Sahara: Kormorane in der Wüste. Falke 57, Sonderheft pp 42-44.

HERING, J. (2010): Leukistischer Schwarzhalstaucher Podiceps nigricollis auf einem Gewässer in der Zentralsahara. Ornithol. Mitt. 62 p 25.

HERING, J.& HERING, H. (2009): Der Wüstenvulkan Wau an Namus – ein unbekanntes Überwinterungsgebiet in der Zentralsahara. Falke 56 pp 27-29.

HERING, J. & FUCHS, E. (2008): Später Fund eines Seggenrohrsängers in Libyen. Falke 55 p 483.

HERING, J. & FUCHS, E. (2010): Mixed breeding colony of Little Egret Egretta garzetta and Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis in Benghazi, Libya. Alauda 78 pp 149-152.

HERING, J. & FUCHS, E. (2011): First breeding record for Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus in Libya. ABC Bulletin 18(2) pp 218-220.

HERING, J., FUCHS, E. and BREHME, S. (2009): Weißstörche (Ciconia ciconia) in der Zentralsahara – abseits bekannter Brut- und Rastplätze. – Vogelwarte 47 pp 309-310.

HERING, J., FUCHS, E. and BREHME, S. (2010) First breeding record and passage of Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus in Libya. ABC Bulletin 17(1) pp. 82-84.

HERING, J., BREHME, S. & FUCHS, E. (2009): Abseits bekannter Brut- und Rastplätze: Weißstörche (Ciconia ciconia) in der Zentralsahara [Kurzfassungen der Vorträge und Posterbeiträge]. Programm 142. Jahresversammlung der DO-G p 41.

HERING, J., BREHME, S., FUCHS, E. & WINKLER, H. (2009): Zimtrohrsänger Acrocephalus baeticatus und „Mangroverohrsänger“ A. scirpaceus avicenniae erstmals in der Paläarktis – Irritierendes aus den Schilfröhrichten Nordafrikas. Limicola 23 pp 202-232.

HERING, J., BREHME, S., FUCHS, E. & WINKLER, H.(2010): African Reed Warblers and Mangrove Reed Warblers in Libya & Egypt – both new to the Western Palearctic. – Birding World 23 pp 218-219.

MEININGER, P. L., WOLF, P. A., HADOUD, D. A. & ESSGHAIER, M. F. A. (1996) Notes on the coastal birds of Libya, July 1993. Sandgrouse 18 (1) pp 53-60.

ROBERTSON, P. and ESSGHAIER, M. Libya chapter pp 481-487 in FISHPOOL, L.D.C. and EVANS M.I. editors (2001) Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority sites for conservation. Newbury and Cambridge, UK. Pisces Publications and BirdLife International (BirdLife Conservation Series No.11).

Links

See Rob Tovey's interesting and informative blog about birds and birding in Libya at http://www.birdingforalark.blogspot.com.

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