Tunisia Ramsar wetland
Selja Gorges
33 bird species recorded; the most in December.
Skander zarrad · CC BY-SA 4.0
This month here
6 species in January.20 species in February.2 species in March.10 species in April.2 species in May.2 species in June.1 species in July.0 species in August.0 species in September.0 species in October.1 species in November.25 species in December.
The birds you are most likely to see in the month you choose, those that come for the season first. It opens on today's month.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
33 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 33Speciesrecorded more than once
- 8Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 139Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 265 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 3Raptors
- 1Waders
- 25Songbirds
- 4Other birds
From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.
The checklist
All 33 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors3 species
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Booted eagleHieraaetus pennatus
- Bonelli's EagleAquila fasciata
Waders1 species
- Cream-coloured CourserCursorius cursor
Songbirds25 species
- Desert LarkAmmomanes deserti
- Trumpeter FinchBucanetes githagineus
- Mourning WheatearOenanthe lugens
- White-crowned Black WheatearOenanthe leucopyga
- House BuntingEmberiza sahari
- European StonechatSaxicola rubicola
- Black WheatearOenanthe leucura
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Spanish sparrowPasser hispaniolensis
- Moussier's RedstartPhoenicurus moussieri
- Eurasian Crag MartinPtyonoprogne rupestris
- Desert wheatearOenanthe deserti
- Northern RavenCorvus corax
- Crested larkGalerida cristata
- European RobinErithacus rubecula
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorNT
- Spectacled WarblerSylvia conspicillata
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
- Western Olivaceous WarblerIduna opaca
- Bar-tailed Desert LarkAmmomanes cinctura
- Thekla's LarkGalerida theklae
- Lanius excubitorLanius excubitor
- Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephala
Other birds4 species
- Barbary PartridgeAlectoris barbara
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.
When to go
The most species in December.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan13°/2°24 mm
- Feb15°/3°12 mm
- Mar19°/7°24 mm
- Apr24°/11°23 mm
- May29°/15°18 mm
- Jun34°/20°8 mm
- Jul38°/23°3 mm
- Aug37°/23°9 mm
- Sep31°/19°22 mm
- Oct26°/15°19 mm
- Nov18°/8°22 mm
- Dec14°/4°20 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Selja Gorges.
Canyon in Tunisia
Selja Gorges is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Tunisia, 265 m above the sea.
33 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 139 open records.
The most recorded are the Desert Lark, the Trumpeter Finch and the Mourning Wheatear.
2 species come for the summer, 6 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
The most species are recorded in December.
Get there and watch
- Maison Des Jeunes Metlaouiplace to stay · 6.6 km · 3 within 10 km
- Metlaouinearest town · 6.9 km in a straight line
- Tozeur Nefta International Airport (TOE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 52 km in a straight lineCar hire at DJE airport (Mellita)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The place and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 3places to stay within 10 kmMaison Des Jeunes Metlaoui, Hôtel Thelja, Camping Les Jardins
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Selja Gorges.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas4 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The place, as people saw it.
Other places nearby.
Selja Gorges
Tunisia
- 33Birdyas Score
- 33Species
- 8Migrants
- 0Threatened
Salt evaporation pond of Thyna
Tunisia · 220 km
- 55Birdyas Score
- 109Species
- 43Migrants
- 3Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3110992) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 139 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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