10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2012

Most birders, including the American Ornithologists’ Union, accept Kumlien’s Gull as a subspecies of Iceland Gull. Still others say that Thayer’s Gull , Iceland Gull , and Kumlien’s Gull are all a single species and we all are kidding ourselves by pretending otherwise. Confused, of course. glaucoides, L.

Iceland 207

Iceland Adoptable Woodpeckers Species 207

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

That was alright though, as a short time later Eric Miller spotted an Iceland Gull in our wake that certainly provided the opportunity for some photography! Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides both above and below (Click the one below to embiggen it.). Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla.

New York 204

New York Iceland New York City Suffering 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2011

My thoughts vacillated between Ring-billed Gull because it seemed small to Iceland Gull because it was so darn white and the structure just felt right. But how does one compare the likelihood of a June Iceland Gull loafing amid sunbathers the odds of a bleached out and freaky looking Ring-billed Gull ?

Iceland 167

Iceland Breeding Rights Birds 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2016

Listen up, listers: If you’ve got an Iceland list, you might need to amend it … the country has gained six new nesting species in the 21st century. It’s a sad day for nestcam watchers, as a Bald Eagle nonchalantly snatched one of Rachel and Steve’s Osprey fledglings. But thankfully, there’s other bird news that’s more positive.

Bald Eagle 100

Bald Eagle Iceland Eagles Birds 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As promised, I teased a single Iceland Gull out of an endless horde of more common gulls. The shortest month of the calendar year tends to be one of the less birdy as well. Still, twenty-eight days hardly suffice when the world offers so much to see.

2019 100

2019 Iceland United States Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

All manner of spring species are turning up in the Finger Lakes region, but I’m still working on winter stragglers, which makes a self-found Iceland Gull my favorite of this weekend. Have you recognized how different your immediate surroundings are compared to the beginning of the month?

Iceland 100

Iceland 2018 Owls Birds 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

But Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was incidental, non-waterfowl find along the way, an Iceland Gull at Jacob Riis Park. They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. He’d share a photo but his computer has died leaving him with a camera full of images and nothing to download them to. How about you?

Iceland 113

Iceland 2018 Geese Birds 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Even more exciting than close range waterfowl was the Iceland Gull I picked out from among the gulls that roost on the ice. Iceland Gulls look good even when surrounded by goose poop. Though this Pied-billed Grebe is less adapted for cold weather than the Ruddy Ducks it was more active and seemed to be doing alright.

Geese 179

Geese Iceland New York City Ducks 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a long overdue but still unexpected sighting at Baisley Pond Park in Queens, an Iceland Gull. I was most impressed this weekend with a Carolina Wren that would be much better off south of the Mason-Dixon line than it is here in Rochester. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

Iceland 176

Iceland 2015 Birds Experience 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

And, most recently, I returned to Bush Terminal Piers Park, where I saw an Iceland Gull a few weeks back, to try once more for the long-staying Eurasian Wigeon. All the usual gulls were around, but nothing that my inexperienced eye could pick out as a rarity, not even the Iceland Gull from last time.

Iceland 161

Iceland Owls Ducks Montana 161

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2015

Iceland Gull. Iceland Gull 2. Chumming commenced once we cleared the inlet and we quickly had a nice flock of gulls behind us with the occasional Northern Gannet swinging into the chum scrum to see what was available. Northern Gannet. Numbers of some of the better birds are below, stolen from Sean Simes email to the state listserv.

New York 187

New York Iceland 2015 Ducks 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

These birds all breed in Iceland My visit to Brancaster concluded with a magnificent fly-over of Pinkfeet as skein after skein passed high overhead, all heading west. The geese feed on the unwanted tops of the sugar beet that are left in the fields when the beet is harvested, a clean-up service that the farmers are happy with.

Geese 181

Geese Russia Unwanted Breeding 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2014

Once considered a subspecies of Iceland Gull , it is now known to be nothing more than a hybrid between the white-winged Iceland Gull and the black-patterned Thayer’s Gull. And this is where your lists hit the fan: what was that bird again you put on your year/life/whatever list as “Iceland Gull”?

Kazakhstan 165

Kazakhstan Iceland Mongolia Wisconsin 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

Along the wayward route, the Phalarope made stops in Iceland, Greenland, the continental U.S., Scientists who attached tracking devices to 10 of the birds in 2012 were shocked to discover that one had flown west across the Atlantic Ocean, and eventually settled down on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in South America.

Iceland 184

Iceland Stray Ecuador South America 184

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

My BBOTW was definitely that Iceland Gull. I thought I’d have to settle for a surprising number of Great Black-backed Gulls amidst flocks of Ring-billed , but for once in a very, very long time, I pulled a white-winged gull out of that flock. we birders Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a pleasant surprise.

Iceland 100

Iceland 2017 Birds Experience 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

What about Norway and Iceland? Iceland recently announced a quota of 100 fin whales - an endangered species - which is a dramatic increase its original self-assigned quota of nine. Tags: norway iceland whale Japan whaling. And they flagrantly continue killing. They also almost doubled their quota of Minke whales. ".

Whales 100

Whales Whaling Norway Iceland 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any one of the five Iceland Gulls spotted at the Beacon Train Station where a massive-by-New-York-standards twitch for a Slaty-backed Gull seen the day before failed to turn up the guest of honor. What was your best bird of the weekend?

Iceland 163

Iceland 2012 New York Birds 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

First was an awesome stay in Iceland. Here’s his second stop: Our second destination after Iceland was St. Petersburg on Iceland Air, which saved us time and helped us avoid a night’s stay at a hotel. Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia 150

Russia Iceland Europe Birds 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2024

Pinkfooted Geese in North Norfolk – winter visitors from Iceland My British list is, in fact, merely an East Anglian list, as I haven’t (so far) ventured out of the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex.

Spain 130

Spain Eagles North America Cyprus 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

Sure, we got a couple of young Iceland Gulls that didn’t stay with the boat for long and, yes, a couple of nice Lesser Black-backed Gulls were cool, but no Black-legged Kittiwakes , no Glaucous Gulls , and nothing else other than Great Black-backed Gulls , Herring Gulls , and a few Bonaparte’s Gulls.

New York 147

New York Iceland Puffins Albatross 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2024

Range: Widely distributed across temperate Eurasia, breeding as far west as Greenland and Iceland, and stretching eastward to Hokkaido, Japan. Wingspan: Up to 8.2 Weight: 11 to 15.4 pounds (5 to 7 kilograms). Where to Find in Alaska: While not commonly found in Alaska, they occasionally pop up as vagrants.

Alaska 207

Alaska Eagles Bald Eagle Deer 207

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Whooper Swans ( Cygnus cygnus ) The Whooper Swans of the UK and Ireland generally come from Iceland. The site is an important wintering site of Whooper Swans , a large Arctic migrant that is found across the northern extent of Eurasia. They are popular birds, and are the National Bird of Finland.

Finland 104

Finland Ireland Iceland Birds 104

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2012

Migration makes them vulnerable to straying: Accidental Hoary Bats have been found as far afield as Bermuda and Iceland. Spring migration is more sedate, and opposite of most songbirds the females travel first, already pregnant, to stake out their summer territories.

Bats 175

Bats Iceland Stray Fur 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2012

Pied Wagtail – male Our Pied Wagtails are a different race to the familiar White Wagtail of Europe many of which will also pass through Britain heading for Iceland.

Iceland 181

Iceland Europe Species Birds 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2019

This is thought to be derived from súla, which is an Old Norse and Icelandic word for the gannet. I have to question why we continue to use a name that is somewhat antiquated, quite frankly a little silly, and has every 14 year old bird watcher around the world giggling. Where exactly, did it come from?

Iceland 122

Iceland Family Humane Groups 122

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Perhaps the biggest event of this winter has been the late winter occurrence of hundreds of ‘white-winged gulls’ from Shetland to Dover and seemingly at all points in between we, in Britain & Ireland, have been inundated with Iceland Gulls and Glaucous Gulls in recent weeks.

Ireland 155

Ireland Iceland Japan Albatross 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

Eurasian Wigeon Ross’s Goose Upland Sandpiper Little Gull Wilson’s Phalarope Marbled Godwit Least Tern Iceland Gull Many of these would be great additions to the yard list. Now wouldn’t that be cool. A “Woodpeckery thing” with some number of toes. However, it was, in fact, a CACKLING GOOSE, as Corey guessed.

2011 160

2011 Geese Iceland Canada 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.

Germany 174

Germany Russia Iceland India 174

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The Iceland Gull at Wanchese was a no-show. The addition of Blue-winged Teal and Marsh Wren at Bodie Island, owl-less during the day, pulled me to 198. The ducks, like this Northern Pintail , are plentiful and unworried at Bodie Island. It was then that things started falling apart. The Little Gulls at Jeanette’s Pier were out to sea.

North Carolina 170

North Carolina Alligators Geese Owls 170

Critter News

APRIL 8, 2010

Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species.

Whales 100

Whales Whaling Norway Psychology 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

. “Climate change is likely to be driving this change because godwits nest earlier in warmer years, and birds that hatch earlier will have more time to gain the body condition needed for migration and to find good places to spend the winter, which can help them to return early to Iceland when they come back to breed.”

Taiwan 188

Taiwan Iceland United States Chickens 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2012

European Golden-Plovers ( Pluvialis apricaria ) on their breeding ground in Iceland CC-BY Elma Morphological analyses placed the tundra plovers squarely among all the other plovers — including dotterels , Killdeer , and Snowy and Kentish Plovers — for many years.

Family 185

Family 2007 Iceland Louisiana 185

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Over Thursday and Friday we also began to see large numbers of Northern Wheatears on the British east coast and small numbers of Lapland Buntings on the west coast appear.

France 221

France Estonia Ireland Finland 221

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The gulls were basically roosting at least 20 birds deep, often more, for as far up and down the beach as we could see and more were flying in continuously.

Pelicans 163

Pelicans Iceland Wildlife California 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The Douglaston sector had the count’s 10th Iceland Gull , Valley Stream had our 12th Eastern Phoebe , and the Lesser Black-backed Gulls we had in the Rockaways were their 7th occurrence. On the negative side we only had one Sharp-shinned Hawk and two Northern Harriers , which is probably attributable to the weather.

2018 113

2018 Bald Eagle Falcons Birds 113

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 11, 2010

The plan can mean not only reversing the current ban on whale hunting by Norway, Iceland, and Japan for the next ten years, but will allow whaling in the internationally recognized whale sanctuary around Antarctica. Whales are facing more threats today than ever before, largely from commercial whaling.

Whales 100

Whales Whaling International Fund For Animal Welfare IFAW 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our fourth country on this trip.

Sweden 165

Sweden Denmark Geese Finland 165