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birdlist norway trip 1

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From: "Wim Vader" <>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:11:04 +0200

                                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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