10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

During high tide the island is cut off, but people will deliberately strand themselves on the island to engage in six hours of solid sea watching in the hope of picking up species like Northern Fulmar, Leach’s Storm-petrels , skuas, sea ducks, loons and Manx Shearwaters. Brent Geese, with Wales behind.

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Geese Seals Shelters Collecting 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

The Rose-ringed Parakeet’s European (=feral) range is surprisingly coherent for an introduced bird that is dependent on large metropolitan areas, and the species occurs in very decent numbers from UK’s London throughout the Netherland’s large cities all the way up along the Rhine to Germany’s Heidelberg.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 251

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2017

The skies were full of thousands of Greylag Geese , Pink-footed Geese , Barnacle Geese and Brent Geese on the move and in the shallow water there were already hundreds of Bar-tailed Godwits , Eurasian Oystercatchers , Dunlin and Eurasian Curlew. Thousands of Geese on the move on dusk. Eurasian Curlew.

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Seals Geese 2017 Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

As we reached the end of the sealed section of Weaber Plain Road we noticed that the water truck had been along the unsealed section to supress the dust and the Fairy Martins were busy taking advantage of the wet mud available. There were also Purple Swamphens around the edges of the lagoon and Green Pygmy Geese further out.

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Birds Collecting Seals Cattle 145