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Netherlands Trip

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Subject: Netherlands Trip
From: "Lynn Jenkin" <>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:26:21 +1000
Hi again
 

Part Two – THE NETHERLANDS

 

Highlights were many as I saw 138 species of birds of which 113 were new. We only spent about 3 days out of 2 weeks seriously birding but felt we saw a lot of what was around at this time of the year.

  • Common Swifts "screaming" through the narrow streets of Dutch towns.
  • Eurasian Oystercatchers in paddocks, and sitting on fence posts and rooves of houses. Similar behaviour to the SIPO"S in New Zealand.
  • Common Redshanks everywhere!
  • White Wagtails common around farm houses like our Willie Wagtails
  • Finches & Warblers of many species common. My favourite was the Bullfinches. Also got a parting look at a Hawfinch
  • Black Terns
  • Long & Short eared Owls
  • Quail (heard only) but apparently not common in Holland.
  • Ringed & Little Ringed Plovers
  • Little Stints, Dunlins and Temminck’s Stint all together allowing a great size comparison.
  • Ruffs in breeding plumage of all varieties of colours
  • Golden Oriole ( female)
  • Great Bitterns x 2 flying around
  • Waders in breeding plumage
  • Nesting birds on Texel eg. Black headed Gulls, Little Terns Common & Artic Terns, Avocets
  • Brent Geese
  • A solitary Goldeneye
  • Great Spotted Woodpeckers & Eurasian Nuthatches
  • Redstarts & Black Redstarts

 

 

 

Species seen in order of sighting

1.Common Starling

2. Eurasian Coot

3.House Sparrow

4.Feral Pigeon

5. Black headed Gull

6.Carrion crow

7. Common Swift

8. Mute Swan

9 Common Blackbird

10 Great Cormorant

11 Mallard

12 Great crested grebe

13 Grey heron

14 Jackdaw

15 Short-toed Treecreeper

16 Great Black-backed Gull

17 Eurasian Jay

18 Common Kestrel

19 Collared Dove

20 Wood Pigeon

21 Common Magpie

22 Great Tit

23 Eurasian Oystercatcher

24 Eurasian Spoonbill

25 Barn Swallow

26 Lesser Black-backed Gull

27 Herring Gull

28 Common Moorhen

29 Common Pheasant

30 Common Redshank

31 Common Tern

32 Greenfinch

33 Blue Tit

34 Common Gull

35 Sandwich Tern

36 White Wagtail

37 Chaffinch

38 Common Shelduck

39 European Robin

40 Winter Wren

41 Great Spotted Woodpecker

42 Coal Tit

43 Eurasian Nuthatch

44 Mistle Thrush

45 Sky Lark

46 Yellow Hammer

  1. Northern Wheatear
  2. Song Thrush
  3. Willow Warbler
  4. Pied Flycatcher
  5. Black Cap
  6. Chiffchaff
  7. Tree Pipit
  8. Common Buzzard
  9. Common Redstart
  10. Crested Tit
  11. Raven
  12. Willow Tit
  13. Common Stonechat
  14. Meadow Pipit
  15. Northern Lapwing
  16. Rook
  17. Common Cuckoo
  18. Long eared Owl
  19. Eurasian Bullfinch
  20. Eurasian Curlew
  21. Goldcrest
  22. European Turtle Dove
  23. Wood Warbler
  24. Dunnock
  25. Egyptian Goose
  26. Eurasian Hobby
  27. European Goldfinch
  28. Sand Martin
  29. Reed Bunting
  30. Black Redstart
  31. Linnet
  32. Marsh Harrier
  33. Quail (Heard)
  34. Sedge Warbler
  35. Marsh Warbler
  36. Icterine Warbler
  37. Common Sandpiper
  38. Black-tailed Godwit
  39. Pied Avocet
  40. Hen Harrier
  41. Greylag Goose
  42. Grey Plover
  43. Ringed Plover
  44. Little Ringed Plover
  45. Montagu’s Harrier
  46. Yellow Wagtail ( Flava)
  47. Garganey
  48. Gadwell
  49. Common Greenshank
  50. Spotted Redshank
  51. Northern Shoveler
  52. Tufted Duck
  53. Northern Goshawk
  54. Ruff
  55. European Reed Warbler
  56. Goldeneye
  57. Ruddy Turnstone
  58. Common Eider
  59. Brent Goose
  60. Whimbrel
  61. Artic Tern
  62. Black Tern
  63. Little Gull
  64. Tree Sparrow
  65. Common Pochard
  66. Curlew Sandpiper
  67. Wood Sandpiper
  68. Black-winged Stilt
  69. Northern Pintail
  70. Eurasian Wigeon
  71. Little Stint
  72. Temminck’s Stint
  73. Dunlin
  74. Little Egret
  75. Lesser Whitethroat
  76. Whitethroat
  77. Short-eared Owl
  78. Golden Oriole
  79. Grey Partridge
  80. Stock Pigeon
  81. Hawfinch
  82. Common Nightingale ( Heard only)
  83. Great Bittern
  84. Ruddy Duck
  85. Bar-tailed Godwit
  86. Red Knot
  87. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  88. Little Tern
  89. Greater White-fronted Goose
  90. Barnacle Goose
  91. Rose-ringed Parakeet
  92. Long-tailed Tit

 

Back to a cold winter here, hard to take

 

Cheers

 

Dick Jenkin (DUNGOG)

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