10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. Greater Scaup The female was rather shy, but I was happy to compare it to the many Tufted Ducks that were around as well.

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Netherlands Birds Ducks Hunting 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The pier in Ijmuiden, a coastal town west of Amsterdam, is a popular sea-watching site in the Netherlands as it allows one to get further out than from the beach. It is an excellent site in the winter months in particular, when seabirds including ducks, divers and grebes are quite reliable here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). While driving along the Trekvaart canal I spotted hundreds of Tufted Duck with a nice sprinkling of Smew , Common Pochard and Common Goldeneye.

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Beavers Netherlands Eagles Geese 139

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Bohemian Waxwing The morning of my second day was partly devoted to a Long-tailed Duck in the Mokbaai at the island’s southern tip. A few Bohemian Waxwings were also a great addition to my life-list and a long-awaited bird. They were feeding in a small tree in the village of De Koog and were very approachable.

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Birds Groups Ducks Rights 222

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

From there, we learn of the effects of season creep on Great Tits and winter moth caterpillars in the Netherlands, the increasing gap between male and female migration dates in Africa-wintering Barn Swallows and the lengthening migration of Barred Warblers as their breeding grounds shift north.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

The situation was still much the same in 1995, when a friend and I went on a short birding trip to the Netherlands in winter, specifically to see geese. The Netherlands were far away. Of course I considered it to have been blown there from the Netherlands. Still, this was not much of an issue, nothing we discussed.

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Germany Geese Netherlands Kenya 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. Hybrid dabbling duck , Rieselfelder Münster, Germany. Also high on my list of favourite birds for 2016 is a hybrid dabbling duck whose parentage I have yet to find out. Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands. But … GREAT BUSTARDS!!

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101