BIRDLIST NORWAY TRIP 1. NON-PASSERES
Maybe it can be of some interest to show what birds one sees during a
holidays-sightseeing like trip through the middle part of Norway. Ole post
has recently given an excellent annotated list of birds seen in Denmark,
and my annotations therefore can be kept to a minimum. please keep in mind,
that more active birding would have led to a appreciable larger list, and
more specificically, that my botanical interests prevent me from looking up
enough, so that I always do specially poorly with raptors. Also, on every
such trip there are so unaccountable absentees, that are common enough, but
just did not show themselves this one time. Examples in this list of such
absentees are e.g. Bluethroat, Willow Grouse and Wood Sandpiper. And as we
never visited one of the seabird cliffs, there are very few primary
seabirds on the list, nor birds of the higher mountains, such as Purple
Sandpiper, Dotterel or Ptarmigan.
All birds were seen in the period 6 to 28 June, on the way from Tromsø to
Kristiansund (quickly) and back (leisurely) or in the tromsø region after
our return there.
The order of birds is that of the british list, which I happened to have handy.
Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata
Black-throated Diver G. arctica
Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis (Two in Trøndelag;
uncommon there)
Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus (Luckily common in Trøndelag, wonderful
birds in summer)
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax c. carbo
Shag Ph. aristotelis
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
Greylag Goose Anser anser
Canada Goose Branta canadensis (Introduced, and not popular; but
pairs
with goslings on a broad river still a most
pretty sight)
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
Gadwall A. strepera
Eurasian Teal A. crecca
Mallard A. platyrhynchos
Northern Pintail A. acuta
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
Common Eider Somateria mollissima
Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
Goosander M. merganser (Two at the famous Saltstraumen
rapids)
White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla (Many!!)
Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus (Strangely enough only one on the
entire trip, harrassed by a Long-tailed Skua at
Saltfjellet in the
pouring rain on the way down)
Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos (One, on Dønna)
Merlin Falco columbarius
Gyr falcon F. rusticolus (A bedraggled immature on a pole
om Saltfjeller)
Common Crane Grus grus (Twice with young and seen from the road, a
pleasant surprise)
European Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus (Very common, the last week
everywhere with small young)
Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticola
European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria (The melancholy, but melodious
'voice of the hills')
Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus (Less common than the Golden
Plover
most places)
Temminck's Stint Calidris temmincki
Dunlin C. alpina
Ruff Philomachus pugnax
Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
Eurasian Curlew N. arquata (Heard in full song almost daily, a great
pleasure always)
Common Redshank Tringa totanus
Common Greenshank T. nebularia
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus
Long-tailed Skua S. longicaudus
Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
Ring-billed Gull L. delawarensis (One 3k in downtown Tromsø, on
6 June!)
Mew Gull L. canus
Lesser Black-backed Gull L. fuscus (Graelssii common south of Trondheim,
fuscus much sparser to the north)
Herring Gull L. argentatus
Great Black-backed Gull L. marinus
Common Tern Sterna hirundo
Arctic Tern S. paradisaea
Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
Feral Pigeon Columba livia
Wood Pigeon C. palumbus
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus (Still calling on 28 June!)
Common Swift Apus apus
Wim Vader,
Tromsø Museum
9037 Tromsø,
Norway
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