Blog
Our blog will give you an idea of what birding in Norway can be like, and what Tringa Birding is up to throughout the year.
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Early spring in Southern Norway
Mid-March till Mid-April was spent in Southern Norway. The period came with cold and clear weather – night temperatures often below zero – and the bird migration was slow. However, a good handful of rear species was around – never a boring moment! The returning Ring-billed Gull (ringnebbmåke) was back in Porsgrunn for the third…
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Winter weeks in the north.
From Mid-February to the start of March we spent three weeks in Lofoten and Vesterålen. The star of the region was no doubt a Eurasian Bittern (rørdrum) that spent the winter in a small, open stream at Bø in Vesterålen – far from its normal wintering grounds. Very exposed in the open landscape and with…
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Winter in Southern Norway
The winter so far has been rather quiet birdwise, but the mild weather has produced a few unexpected birds. A woodlark (trelerke) rested for a few days at the beach at Moutmarka near our home base in Vestfold. A bit further south, a great egret (egretthegre) visited Larvik a few days under rather harsh winter…
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December
Summing up the December birding in Southeastern Norway is basically about one single species: the Pine Grossbeak (konglebit). This charismatic finch belongs to the taiga forests of Northern Eurasia and North America, but every now and then – in years with rich crops of Roven berries – the population erupts in influxes far south of…