Checklist - Seabird migration, Finnmark, Varanger - May

Finnmark, Varanger Velvet Scoter Hen Harrier Common Goldeneye Common Crane and Pasvik, May Smew Eurasian Oystercatcher The number of species will increase in the last part of May, while the seabird Red-breasted Merganser Common Ringed Plover migration peaks in the middle. Goosander Eurasian Golden Plover Whooper Swan Rock Ptarmigan Eurasian Dotterel Greylag Goose Willow Grouse Northern Lapwing Taiga Bean Goose Black Grouse Turnstone Tundra Bean Goose Capercaillie Red Knot Greater White-fronted Goose Red- throated Diver Dunlin Barnacle Goose Black-throated Diver Broad-billed Sandpiper Brent White-billed Diver Curlew Sandpiper Common Shelduck Great northern Diver Little Stint Eurasian Teal Northern Fulmar Temminck`s stint Eurasian Wigeon Gannet Purple Sandpiper Mallard European Shag Sanderling Northern Shoveler Great Cormorant Ruff Tufted Duck White-tailed Eagle Common Sandpiper Greater Scaup Golden Eagle Wood Sandpiper Common Eider Rough-legged Buzzard Redshank King Eider European Kestrel Spotted-Redshank Steller`s Eider Merlin Greenshank Long-tailed Duck Peregrine Falcon Red-necked Phalarope Common Scoter Gyr Falcon Common Snipe

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Jack Snipe Wood Pigeon Bluethroat

Eurasian Woodcock “Feral Dove” Common Redstart

Eurasian Whimbrel Common Cuckoo Whinchat

Curlew Northern Hawk Owl Northern Wheatear

Bar-tailed Godwit Short-eared Owl Ring Ouzl

Arctic Skua Great Spotted Woodpecker Mistle Thrush

Long-tailed Skua Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Fieldfare

Great Skua Black Woodpecker Redwing

Pomarine Skua Three-toed Woodpecker Song Thrush

Black-headed Gull Shore Lark Willow Warbler

Little Gull Sky Lark Chiffchaff

Common Gull Sand Marin Goldcrest

Herring Gull Barn swallow Spotted Flycatcher

Great Black-backed Gull House Martin Pied Flycatcher

Lesser Black-backed Gull Red-throated Pipit Siberian Tit

Glaucous Gull Meadow Pipit Willow Tit

Iceland Gull Three Pipit Great Tit

Black-legged Kittiwake Rock Pipit Blue Tit

Arctic Tern White Wagtail Great Grey Shrike

Common Tern Yellow Wagtail (Thunbergi) Siberian Jay

Common Guillemot Bohemian Waxwing Magpie

Brünnick`s Guillemot White-throated Dipper Common Raven

Razorbill Eurasian Wren Hooded Crow

Black Guillemot Hedge Accentor Starling

Atlantic Puffin European Robin House Sparrow 3

Three Sparrow Great – grey Owl Humpback whale

Chaffinch Snowy Owl

Brambling Eurasian Jay

Greenfinch Common Crossbill

Eurasian Siskin Two-barred Crossbill

Arctic Redpoll Little Bunting

Common Redpoll (flammea)

Twite Mammals:

Parrot Crossbill Moose

Common Bullfinch Roe Deer

Pine Grosbeak “Reindeer”

Reed Bunting Northern Hare

Lapland Bunting Red Fox

Snow Bunting Brown Bear

Musk Rat

There is also several other species Utter that you might see. Some of them depending on the weather and food “Mink” situation: Weasel Lesser White-fronted Goose Harbour Seal Hazel Hen Grey Seal Red-necked Grebe Bearded Seal Sabine`s Gull Harbour Porpoise Little Auk White-beaked Dolphin Pallid Harrier Mink Whale Marsh Harrier Killer Whale Common Buzzard