European Birds

Let's start with Atlantic puffins. Birds don't get more adorable than this:

These puffins were photographed on Hornoya Island, at 70 degrees 23 min North latitude off the north-easternmost point of Norway. The birds are unafraid of people; it is easy to look at them at eye level and from as close as 3 or 4 feet.

The Hornoya pictures were taken in mid-summer: we had 24-hour sunlight for about a week during the trip

Razorbill (Hornoya Island)

Black guillemot (Hornoya Island)

Common and Thick-Billed murres (Hornoya Island)

Common murres (including the bridled form) on Hornoya Island

Shag (Hornoya Island)

Northern gannet (Helgoland, Germany)

Rough-legged hawk

Great crested grebe (The Netherlands)

Red-necked grebe

Common eider (male)

Common eider (female)

Red-necked phalarope

Great black-backed gull (Hornoya Island)

Black-legged kittiwake (Hornoya Island)

Arctic tern

European oystercatcher

Eurasian curlew

Common redshank

Bar-tailed godwits

Northern lapwing or "Kiebitz"

Black grouse lek (It's a poor picture of a remarkable spectacle.)

Ring-necked pheasant

Great gray owl

Tengmalm's owl

Ural owl

Red-throated pipit

White-throated dipper (winter, at a mill pond near our house in Stockdorf)

Northern shrike

Redwing

Great tit (at our house in Munich)

Blue tit (at our house in Munich)

Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:

Birds from the USA and Canada:   our house,   Hornsby Bend and greater Austin,   Texas,   California,   Hawaii,   Canada,

Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean:   Honduras,   Costa Rica,   Panama,   Trinidad and Tobago

Neotropic birds from South America:   Ecuador,   Ecuador 2017,   Brazil.

Western palearctic birds:   Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway,   Europe: United Kingdom,   Europe: Spain,   the Canary Islands,   Europe: Lesbos, Greece,   Israel

Eastern palearctic birds:   China

Birds from Africa:   The Gambia,   South Africa

Indo-Malayan birds from   India: North-west (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand)   India: North-east (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya)   India: Central (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh)

Birds from   Australia,   New Zealand.

For our 2014 December trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2016 May-June trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2017 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2018 March trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2018 May trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2018 November trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2019 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2019 July trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2021 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2021 December trip to Ecuador, see this web site.

For our 2022 January-February trip to Peru, see this web site.

For our 2022 July-August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, see this web site.

For our 2022 September trip to Bolivia, see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December pre-trip to Argentina (before our Antarctic cruise), see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.

For our 2023 January birding in Chile, see this web site.

For our 2023 January-March cruise from Chile to Antarctica and around South America to Miami, FL, see this web site.

For our 2023 March-April birding in south Florida (after the Seabourn cruise), see this web site.