Stormfågel - Fulmarus glacialis - Northern Fulmar

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Stormfågel - Fulmarus glacialis - Northern Fulmar 

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I was happy to see this Fulmar on the whaling trip. Most time you see it in a distance or high up on a cliff. Looks mostly like a usual gull then. But seeing it up close it is a different story. I think sweet is a good word to describe it.

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Havssula - Morus bassanus - Northern Gannet

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Havssula - Morus bassanus - Northern Gannet 

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Better then whales? Yea, almost! I was happy when I saw this bird passing by our boat when we were on a whale watching trip. A couple of years ago I went to Scotland only to see it. And I did.

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Rödvingetrast - Turdus iliacus - Redwing

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 Rödvingetrast - Turdus iliacus - Redwing

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I did not recognise this Redwing at first as I rarely see it at home. And when I do it is not this colorful as I see it in winter time. This is breeding plumage. I did see this all over Iceland and it was very common there.

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AtlantSilltrut - Larus fuscus - British Lesser Black-backed gull

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AtlantSilltrut - Larus fuscus - British Lesser Black-backed gull

© NF Photo 140603 Tjörnin damm,  Reykjavik

This one is closely related to the one we have in Sweden. I can´t tell them apart for sure. I have to trust the book.

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Silvertärna - Sterna paradisaea - Arctic Tern

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 Silvertärna - Sterna paradisaea - Arctic Tern

© NF Photo 140528, Tjörnin damm Reykjavik

This tern seemed to have a secrete place of it´s own to hunt. It was a small part of the damm in front of the City Hall that is backdrop in these images. It is the same damm as in the earlier posts.

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Tjörnin damm, Reykjavik

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Tjörnin damm or The Pond

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One of the inhabitants, the Tufted duck male 

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This pond was only 3 blocks away from my hotel so I found it rather quickly after arrival. To be a city pond there was quite a lot of birds. Mostly ducks and gulls.

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Bergand - Aythya marila - Greater Scaup

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Bergand - Aythya marila - Greater Scaup 

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My trip to Iceland wa not a birding tour but I found some birds never the less. Start out with Greater Scauo. I found this couple in a rather large dam in Reykjavik. It was a "photographic" lifer to me. So I was pleased. Trip to Iceland started out well. This one looks rather much like the Tufted duck but has no "tuft" and differs a little in colors.

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Nene or Hawaiian goose - Branta sandvicensis

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Nene or Hawaiian goose - Branta sandvicensis

© NF Photo 130830 Honolulu Zoo

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This is the last species I have from Oahu and it is taken in the Honolulu Zoo. Nene is not native to Oahu but to some of the other Hawaii islands. Acc to the wiki article it is probably evolved from the Canada goose.

 It was a lot of birds in this zoo, but I will save them for better days. It is great birds but lot of fences spoils the images and they are fom all over the world.

If I made no misstakes I had 21 species while birding on my own. But it was low season and bird areas was closed and so were birding tours. I hope you enjoyed those I shared. :)

 

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