10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2017
This location out at sea not only makes Heligoland one of Europe’s best vagrant traps for Siberian songbirds, its cliffs also hold Germany’s only seabird colonies, with gannets , f ulmars, and – yes – alcids, namely razorbills and common guillemots. Diving in murky waters infested with corkscrew killers ?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2017
A few years back, I birded northern Greece with a couple from Namibia. He has seen them before in Cape Town, but those were introduced and feral birds, while in the Balkans they are indigenous and – countable! Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm….
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