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Birding Finland on the Fly

10,000 Birds

Here’s his third stop: In June of 2013, we arrived in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland, and our third destination on our European getaway. And, as appears to be the case in most cities in Finland, wildlife and nature is only steps away! And despite the name, this book covers most of Finland, not just the south.

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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. I photographed it at Gorleston, on the Suffolk coast, on 5 September 2020, but I discovered that bird had been rung, as an adult, at nearby Great Yarmouth on 16 November 2013, so it was probably already nine years old, and could well have been older.

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