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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!
A couple of lovely Striped Dolphins – Stenella coeruleoalba – at sea off Madeira. Photo: Luis Dias, Madeira.
483 photos of 127 bird species!
6th September: Four new photos have been added to the bird photo gallery today, which now contains 483 photos! Of these two were new to the gallery (Black-tailed Godwit and the first live Barn Owl). View the photos here»
Arctic Norway in May 2008
Between 9 and 20 May 2008 we were two Swedish birding parties that studied the northbound spring migration of waterfowls, especially skuas and divers, at Slettnes lighthouse.It was cold and a dramatic success at the sam time. I am working on the new Slettnes website. In meantime you find a diary and nice photos here»
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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