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WINGS Birding Tours – Photo Gallery

Newfoundland: Winter Birds

On any given day one can see up to ten species of gulls, including hundreds, if not thousands of Iceland (Kumlien’s) Gulls.
Rarely seen otherwise except from a winter pelagic off the East Coast, Dovekies can be seen in good numbers from solid ground in Newfoundland.
Because St. John’s is so close to Greenland and Europe, several species, such as these wintering Tufted Ducks, reflect a European flavor…
…as do these Black-headed Gulls…
…this Yellow-legged Gull, regular in recent years in very small numbers…
..and this Redwing, a Eurasian thrush seen by the WINGS group in 2007.
Even if there are no Eurasian thrushes to be seen, there are usually flocks of Bohemian Waxwings circulating through St. John’s…
…and flocks of Pine Grosbeaks, whose subtly colored females are every bit as attractive as the bright males.
Often there’s a surprise. In 2007 it was an adult Ivory Gull—here feeding on garlic moose sausage (as unusual as the gull!) provided by Bruce Mactavish.

 

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