10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. I was very happy about this lifer as I had been hoping to see this species in autumn during my stay on Heligoland. Something special can always turn up!

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Netherlands Birds Ducks Hunting 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The pier in Ijmuiden, a coastal town west of Amsterdam, is a popular sea-watching site in the Netherlands as it allows one to get further out than from the beach. It is an excellent site in the winter months in particular, when seabirds including ducks, divers and grebes are quite reliable here.

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Netherlands Birds Ducks Breeding 174

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JULY 25, 2014

The situation was still much the same in 1995, when a friend and I went on a short birding trip to the Netherlands in winter, specifically to see geese. The Netherlands were far away. Of course I considered it to have been blown there from the Netherlands. Still, this was not much of an issue, nothing we discussed.

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Germany Netherlands Geese Kenya 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Bohemian Waxwing The morning of my second day was partly devoted to a Long-tailed Duck in the Mokbaai at the island’s southern tip. stejnegeri ), and thus for now was just regarded as an “ Eastern Stonechat ” (both species lumped). They were feeding in a small tree in the village of De Koog and were very approachable.

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Birds Groups Ducks Rights 225

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JANUARY 8, 2017

I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. I therefore finished the year on a high note, seeing quite a few species I scarcely got to see during the previous years. So here they are, my top 10 bird species of 2016, in no particular order except for No. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101