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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Yemen
& Socotra in October 2009
Between 18 October and 2 November we are six Swedes that will
visit Yemen and the island Socotra for birding and seawatching.
We will bird for for eight days in Yemen and seven days on Socotra.
We will also undertake a full day pelagic trip to the island
J. Sabuniah east of Socotra. You'll
find a rough itinerary here» |
Arctic
Norway in May 2009
Between 9 and 20 May 2008 we were two birding parties that studied
the eastbound spring migration of waterfowls, especially skuas
and divers, at Slettnes lighthouse. Three of the participants
from 2008 have returned along with friends and seawatching
there daily right now» |
Utsira
in October 2008
I was invited by Utsira Bird Observatory to give two lectures
about the "Prospect of Seawatching" during week 40.
Me and my friend Erik Sanders (Holland) visited this beautiful
Norwegian island on 30/9-6/10. Feel free to visit Erik's
gallery on pbase here» |
513
photos of 134 bird species!
Eighteen great photos by Sampsa Cairenius (Finland) have been
added to the Birding Madeira photo gallery. View
the photos here» |
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