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Birding Iceland on the Fly

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We boarded the 8:40 pm red-eye from JFK to Reykjavik on May 28; the intention was to sleep on the plane but with the excitement of travel and possibilities swirling around my head I didn’t sleep a wink (*tip – Iceland Air offers free stopovers for up to seven days as you travel from the US to Europe!

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What the rings reveal

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Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. Most of the Icelandic population winters in the British isles The sightings stopped, but then on 18 February 2019 EY70 137 was observed on Lady’s Island Lake, Wexford, Ireland.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2015)

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As members of an international community of nature lovers, we all experience the weekend in different parts of this wide, wide world. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a long overdue but still unexpected sighting at Baisley Pond Park in Queens, an Iceland Gull. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of February 2018)

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All manner of spring species are turning up in the Finger Lakes region, but I’m still working on winter stragglers, which makes a self-found Iceland Gull my favorite of this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Gulls two weeks in a row… what has become of me?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2018)

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But Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was incidental, non-waterfowl find along the way, an Iceland Gull at Jacob Riis Park. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of February 2017)

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My BBOTW was definitely that Iceland Gull. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. we birders Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a pleasant surprise. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth Weekend of 2012)

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Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any one of the five Iceland Gulls spotted at the Beacon Train Station where a massive-by-New-York-standards twitch for a Slaty-backed Gull seen the day before failed to turn up the guest of honor. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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