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Gazumped to Norway

10,000 Birds

It’s marginally better than it sounds as Tormod Admundsen is an Architect with a difference, he’s a birder too, even better than that he’s a birding Architect that specialises in designing bird-hides, shelters, nature trails, outdoor amphitheaters and much more.

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Birding’s Biggest Dips

10,000 Birds

Cuban Pewee 2; Paul and Anita Guris 0 A Cuban Pewee by Mike Bergin Jochen Roder spent a long time walking to dip on a Snowy Owl in Norway. In 1992, a fellow birder he met in Norway mentioned that Snowy Owl was possible north of the village of Vadso. Anita still makes impolite noises when the name of this species comes up.

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Time and the Tilting Earth*

10,000 Birds

That’s about 400 hundred people in Canada, 2600 in Greenland, 2500 in Svalbrad (Norway), and 700 or so in Russia. This time of year, in the shelter of a wall under the sun, I could easily doff my coat and soak up rays with just a t-shirt on, despite the air temperature. The last couple of days here have been glorious.

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