Many
birders experience great excitement over the prospect of 'seawatching',
as seabird-watching is colloquially known as, and seldom miss
the opportunity to do it. It may be performed on a holiday ferry
crossing accompanied by the family or friends, by a chartered
pelagic tour with fellow birders, a hitch on a fishing vessel,
or from a headland on a windy day. Regardless of where it is
done, it is impossible to describe the feeling of excitement
and drama during a great seawatching day in words. You have
to experience it yourself! Furthermore, seawatching is –
for many keen birdwatchers – also coupled with the greatest
identification challenges in modern field ornithology! Add to
this the, often unpredictable, occurrence of seabirds as well
the difficulty to know in advance how many species or what numbers
you are going to see on a day at sea or at a coastal spot. Well,
I hope that you will find this web site covering a few selected
seawatching sites both enjoyable and useful!
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| A couple of lovely Striped
Dolphins – Stenella coeruleoalba – at
sea off Madeira. Photo: Luis
Dias, Madeira. |
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445
photos of 108 bird species!
22nd April: Six new photos have been added to the bird
gallery, which now contains 445 photos! Garganey (Reijo Hautala)
and Red-footed Falcon (John Jackson) was new to the gallery!
View
their excellent photos here» |
Arctic
Norway in May 2008
Between 9 and 20 May 2008 there will be two Swedish birding
parties, which will study the northbound spring migration of
waterfowls, especially skuas and divers, at Slettnes lighthouse.
We do hope for great peek days of Pomarine Skuas and White-billed
Divers during our stay. More info will be available on the new
Slettnes website soon;-) |
An
outstanding seawatching trip!
Between 5-28th October 2007 we were eight Swedish and
two French birders that visited N'Gor (the north-western tip
of the Cap Vert penisula) in Senegal and counted the southbound
passage of seabirds daily from the area. Besides seawatch from
Calao and Isle N'Gor we did two pelagics north off the Cap Vert
peninsula. In the meantime, when writing up the trip report
and sorting the photos, we could already present the results
from our very successfull trip as well as many photos. Read
more here» |
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