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Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Western Sahara in the west, Morocco in the northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Its size is almost 2,400,000 km² with an estimated population near to 35,000,000. The capital is Algiers.

Most of the coastal area is hilly, sometimes even mountainous, and there are a few natural harbours. The area from the coast to the Tell Atlas is fertile. South of the Tell Atlas is a steppe landscape, which ends with the Saharan Atlas; further south, there is the Sahara desert. The Ahaggar Mountains, also known as the Hoggar, are a highland region in central Sahara, southern Algeria. They are located about 1,500 km (932 miles) south of the capital, Algiers and just west of Tamanghasset.

Algiers, Oran, Constantine, and Annaba are Algeria's main cities.

In this region even in winter, midday desert temperatures can be very hot. After sunset, however, the clear, dry air permits rapid loss of heat, and the nights are cool to chilly. Enormous daily ranges in temperature are recorded. The highest temperature recorded in Tiguentour is 145.4 °F (60.5 °C) and is probably the highest reliable temperature ever recorded in Algeria under standard conditions.

Rainfall is fairly abundant along the coastal part of the Tell Atlas, ranging from 400 to 670 mm annually, the amount of precipitation increasing from west to east. Precipitation is heaviest in the northern part of eastern Algeria, where it reaches as much as 1000 mm in some years. Farther inland, the rainfall is less plentiful. Prevailing winds that are easterly and north-easterly in summer change to westerly and northerly in winter and carry with them a general increase in precipitation from September through December, a decrease in the late winter and spring months, and a near absence of rainfall during the summer months. Algeria also has ergs, or sand dunes between mountains, which in the summer time when winds are heavy and gusty, temperatures can get up to 110 °F (43 °C).

 
 

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(GNU Free Documentation License)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria

Number of bird species: 396

Number of endemics: 1
Kabylie Nuthatch Sitta ledanti
The Kabylian nuthatch population is about 108. It was discovered in 1975, and it is confined to a forested island on one mountain top in Algeria. Goats and cattle prevent adequate regeneration of nearby vegetation. It is one of the 50 most endangered birds in the world.

Oiseaux d'Algerie / The Birds of Algeria

Aissa Moali & Paul Isenmann - SEO 2000
ISBN: 2950654886
Buy this book from NHBS.com

African Bird Club

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Algeria is the second largest country in Africa and much of the interior is unexplored ornithologically. With over 400 species recorded including the endemic Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti and some of the most important wetlands in the Mediterranean area, there is much to interest the visiting birder. Although Algeria's security situation is stabilising, there are still travel risks but French birdwatchers have been visiting the country again since 2002...

Biodiversity and Protected Areas

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pd file with full descriotion of biodiversity of the nation...

Important Bird Areas

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Algeria is important for raptors, waterbirds including migrant wintering species, and large steppe birds. It has one endemic species Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti which is a restricted range species, the distribution of which defines the North Algerian mountains secondary Endemic Bird Area. Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti is known from four sites all within 30 km of each other on forested slopes above 1,000 m in the Petite Kabylie mountain range in the Tell region...

Parc National d'El Kala - Lac Oubeïra et Lac Tonga

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Le caractère exceptionnel d'El Kala réside dans sa réserve naturelle théoriquement protégée qui laisse le visiteur de cette région admiratif et contemplateur. Crée en 1983, Le Parc National s'étend sur une superficie de 76438 ha. Situé au nord-est de l'Algérie, il est limité à l'est par la frontière algéro-tunisienne, au nord par la mer, à l'ouest par le Cap Rosa, au sud par les contreforts du djebel El Ghorra. Le Parc est composé d'une mosaïque d'écosystèmes forestiers, lacustres, dunaires et marins, lui conférant une haute valeur biologique et écologique dans le bassin méditerranéen. Sa flore, sa faune et son patrimoine culturel lui ont valu son inscription en tant que réserve de la Biosphère par l'UNESCO en 1990.

Parc National d'El Kala - Lac Oubeïra et Lac Tonga

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In French - Ce site de 76 438 ha, également déclaré Réserve de la Biosphère, borde la Mer Méditerranée et comprend une belle mosaïque d'habitats : zones humides, forêts de pins et de chênes (dont une rare forêt littorale de Pins d'Alep), zones montagneuses et écosystèmes marins. La biodiversité y est très importante (818 espèces végétales) et El-Kala constitue en particulier la première zone d'hivernage algérienne pour les oiseaux migrateurs...

Parc National d'El Kala - Lac Tonga

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The site lies about 70 km to the east of the northern city of Annaba, c.5 km west of the Tunisian border and 10 km east of Lac Oubeïra (site DZ001). It forms part of the complex of wetlands included within the Parc National d’El Kala. The site consists of a marshy basin and a shallow (maximum depth 6 m), seasonal freshwater to brackish, eutrophic lake, bounded on the north by an extensive sand-dune system, through which the lake connects to the Mediterranean Sea via an artificial channel, the Oued Messida...

Birding Pal

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Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

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Text in french with some - very poor images

Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

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Checklist

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This checklist includes all bird species found in Algeria, based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years...

Les oiseaux d'Algerie

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Annotated list [in french]

Ornithologie en Algérie

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archived discussion of important birds in the country...

Wetlands

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The area is of particular importance for wintering water birds, especially Anas penelope, A. strepera, Aythya ferina, A. fuligula and the globally threatened species Oxyura leucocephala...

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