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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
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! Trips Europe Iceland seabirds'
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2011
Iceland Gulls do not breed in Iceland. But if one detaches “Ice&# from “land&# and puts a hyphen between the two the name seems much more fitting, because while they do not breed in Iceland they are usually seen when the land is covered in ice. … a.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
What about Norway and Iceland? Iceland recently announced a quota of 100 fin whales - an endangered species - which is a dramatic increase its original self-assigned quota of nine. Tags: norway iceland whale Japan whaling. And they flagrantly continue killing. They also almost doubled their quota of Minke whales. ".
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2012
Most birders, including the American Ornithologists’ Union, accept Kumlien’s Gull as a subspecies of Iceland Gull. Still others say that Thayer’s Gull , Iceland Gull , and Kumlien’s Gull are all a single species and we all are kidding ourselves by pretending otherwise. Confused, of course. glaucoides, L.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2019
Remarkably, al-Maghrib’’s Kitab al-Juhrafiya ( Geography ) even makes mention of Ireland and Iceland, islands at the edge of the known world at the time, and identifies these places as sources of this coveted falcon. Image: Portrait of a Gyrfalcon, Viewed from Three Sides , by the Lombard Master (fl. 1540 – 1560).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
That was alright though, as a short time later Eric Miller spotted an Iceland Gull in our wake that certainly provided the opportunity for some photography! Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides both above and below (Click the one below to embiggen it.). Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla.
Critter News
APRIL 8, 2010
Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Even more exciting than close range waterfowl was the Iceland Gull I picked out from among the gulls that roost on the ice. Iceland Gulls look good even when surrounded by goose poop. Though this Pied-billed Grebe is less adapted for cold weather than the Ruddy Ducks it was more active and seemed to be doing alright.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2015
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a long overdue but still unexpected sighting at Baisley Pond Park in Queens, an Iceland Gull. I was most impressed this weekend with a Carolina Wren that would be much better off south of the Mason-Dixon line than it is here in Rochester. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2016
Listen up, listers: If you’ve got an Iceland list, you might need to amend it … the country has gained six new nesting species in the 21st century. It’s a sad day for nestcam watchers, as a Bald Eagle nonchalantly snatched one of Rachel and Steve’s Osprey fledglings. But thankfully, there’s other bird news that’s more positive.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
As promised, I teased a single Iceland Gull out of an endless horde of more common gulls. The shortest month of the calendar year tends to be one of the less birdy as well. Still, twenty-eight days hardly suffice when the world offers so much to see.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
And, most recently, I returned to Bush Terminal Piers Park, where I saw an Iceland Gull a few weeks back, to try once more for the long-staying Eurasian Wigeon. All the usual gulls were around, but nothing that my inexperienced eye could pick out as a rarity, not even the Iceland Gull from last time.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2015
Iceland Gull. Iceland Gull 2. Chumming commenced once we cleared the inlet and we quickly had a nice flock of gulls behind us with the occasional Northern Gannet swinging into the chum scrum to see what was available. Northern Gannet. Numbers of some of the better birds are below, stolen from Sean Simes email to the state listserv.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2014
Along the wayward route, the Phalarope made stops in Iceland, Greenland, the continental U.S., Scientists who attached tracking devices to 10 of the birds in 2012 were shocked to discover that one had flown west across the Atlantic Ocean, and eventually settled down on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in South America.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 11, 2010
The plan can mean not only reversing the current ban on whale hunting by Norway, Iceland, and Japan for the next ten years, but will allow whaling in the internationally recognized whale sanctuary around Antarctica. Whales are facing more threats today than ever before, largely from commercial whaling.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
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. Have you recognized how different your immediate surroundings are compared to the beginning of the month?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
But Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was incidental, non-waterfowl find along the way, an Iceland Gull at Jacob Riis Park. They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. He’d share a photo but his computer has died leaving him with a camera full of images and nothing to download them to. How about you?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2012
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. What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2014
Once considered a subspecies of Iceland Gull , it is now known to be nothing more than a hybrid between the white-winged Iceland Gull and the black-patterned Thayer’s Gull. And this is where your lists hit the fan: what was that bird again you put on your year/life/whatever list as “Iceland Gull”?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2012
Whooper Swans ( Cygnus cygnus ) The Whooper Swans of the UK and Ireland generally come from Iceland. The site is an important wintering site of Whooper Swans , a large Arctic migrant that is found across the northern extent of Eurasia. They are popular birds, and are the National Bird of Finland.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
My BBOTW was definitely that Iceland Gull. I thought I’d have to settle for a surprising number of Great Black-backed Gulls amidst flocks of Ring-billed , but for once in a very, very long time, I pulled a white-winged gull out of that flock. we birders Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a pleasant surprise.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2013
Sure, we got a couple of young Iceland Gulls that didn’t stay with the boat for long and, yes, a couple of nice Lesser Black-backed Gulls were cool, but no Black-legged Kittiwakes , no Glaucous Gulls , and nothing else other than Great Black-backed Gulls , Herring Gulls , and a few Bonaparte’s Gulls.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2013
First was an awesome stay in Iceland. Here’s his second stop: Our second destination after Iceland was St. Petersburg on Iceland Air, which saved us time and helped us avoid a night’s stay at a hotel. Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Petersburg, Russia.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2012
Migration makes them vulnerable to straying: Accidental Hoary Bats have been found as far afield as Bermuda and Iceland. Spring migration is more sedate, and opposite of most songbirds the females travel first, already pregnant, to stake out their summer territories.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2012
Pied Wagtail – male Our Pied Wagtails are a different race to the familiar White Wagtail of Europe many of which will also pass through Britain heading for Iceland.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2019
This is thought to be derived from súla, which is an Old Norse and Icelandic word for the gannet. I have to question why we continue to use a name that is somewhat antiquated, quite frankly a little silly, and has every 14 year old bird watcher around the world giggling. Where exactly, did it come from?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
Perhaps the biggest event of this winter has been the late winter occurrence of hundreds of ‘white-winged gulls’ from Shetland to Dover and seemingly at all points in between we, in Britain & Ireland, have been inundated with Iceland Gulls and Glaucous Gulls in recent weeks.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2013
It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
The Iceland Gull at Wanchese was a no-show. The addition of Blue-winged Teal and Marsh Wren at Bodie Island, owl-less during the day, pulled me to 198. The ducks, like this Northern Pintail , are plentiful and unworried at Bodie Island. It was then that things started falling apart. The Little Gulls at Jeanette’s Pier were out to sea.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2011
Eurasian Wigeon Ross’s Goose Upland Sandpiper Little Gull Wilson’s Phalarope Marbled Godwit Least Tern Iceland Gull Many of these would be great additions to the yard list. Now wouldn’t that be cool. A “Woodpeckery thing” with some number of toes. However, it was, in fact, a CACKLING GOOSE, as Corey guessed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
. “Climate change is likely to be driving this change because godwits nest earlier in warmer years, and birds that hatch earlier will have more time to gain the body condition needed for migration and to find good places to spend the winter, which can help them to return early to Iceland when they come back to breed.”
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
The gulls were basically roosting at least 20 birds deep, often more, for as far up and down the beach as we could see and more were flying in continuously.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2012
European Golden-Plovers ( Pluvialis apricaria ) on their breeding ground in Iceland CC-BY Elma Morphological analyses placed the tundra plovers squarely among all the other plovers — including dotterels , Killdeer , and Snowy and Kentish Plovers — for many years.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2020
The lump into Iceland Gull means it is now part of a lengthy Iceland Gull species account, illustrated in one small drawing, giving more room on the page for a larger Lesser Black-backed Gull. These are the species that immediately come to my mind, and I probably missed some. any East/Central North American splits?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
Over Thursday and Friday we also began to see large numbers of Northern Wheatears on the British east coast and small numbers of Lapland Buntings on the west coast appear.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our fourth country on this trip.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2014
It breeds in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard and overwinters (singly and at mountain top hot springs – if Hollywood is to be trusted) along the coasts of northern Europe. discovered that the usual flock of several thousand Pink-footed Geese was wintering in the Broads National Park.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
At the same time as he was doing his study on Kumlein’s (Iceland) Gulls and Thayer’s Gulls Smith supposedly gathered data on both Common Ringed and Semipalmated Plover (which both nested in the area) and the hybridization of the two species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2018
The Douglaston sector had the count’s 10th Iceland Gull , Valley Stream had our 12th Eastern Phoebe , and the Lesser Black-backed Gulls we had in the Rockaways were their 7th occurrence. On the negative side we only had one Sharp-shinned Hawk and two Northern Harriers , which is probably attributable to the weather.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
We finally connected with a decent gull there when we spotted an Iceland Gull but the real highlight of the bay was the flock of Greater Scaup that took to wing as we steamed past.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2011
While on a residency in Iceland, during which I pursued interests in music and invention, I brought a camera to record little moments in a strange new landscape. It was kindled by my grandmother when I was a child but lay dormant until I’d spent enough time in San Francisco to feel at home.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
The same massive gull flock that would bring tears of joy to the eyes of some birders (indeed, this flock contained both Iceland and Slaty-backed Gulls ) strikes fear into the hearts of others. Abbott’s Lagoon, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA. Some flocks are not for everyone. Fort Baker, Sausalito, CA.
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