Oued Tamri is a river in western
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
which discharges to the Atlantic Ocean near the village of
Tamri.
The surface flow becomes very low at the end of summer before the rainy season has commenced. Until recently the
northern bald ibis
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was believed to survive in the wild only in Morocco at
Souss-Massa National Park
The Souss-Massa National Park (''Parc National de Souss-Massa'') is a 33,800 hectare national park on the Atlantic coast of Morocco which was created in 1991. It lies between Agadir to the north and Sidi Ifni to the south and its centre is at 9° ...
(338 km
2) where there are three colonies, and at the nearby Tamri River mouth, where there is one colony containing almost half the African breeding population, with some movement of birds between these two sites.
Waters of the Oued Tamri are quite
alkaline
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and moderately turbid from the fine sediments washing down from the mountainous terrain to the east. Autumnal
pH levels have been measured in the range of 9.6.
[C. Michael Hogan, ''Surface Water Quality in Morocco'', Lumina Technologies, (2006)]
References
Rivers of Morocco
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