Birding stuff on-line

7-3-10 There are a lot of birding resources on the web. Yann Kolbeinsson has a superb site with tremendous photographs and detailed tips on where to look for birds in Iceland. This is the best webpage that I found specifically about Iceland. It is updated with fresh sightings. I spent all day studying his resourceful website, pulling myself away just to watch Holland come back to beat Brazil in the World Cup. In the second half, a Dutch corner was flicked on by a man at the near post to three teammates on the other side of the box. Holland scored a header with not one Brazilian even nearby. Well done. Very fun to watch.

Here is another Icelandic birding site, www.fuglar.is, not as good as Kolbeinsson's.

I picked up trip reports from a very useful site with birding Trip Reports about Iceland. Some are in text files but most are in downloadable .pdf files. The best Trip Reports are clearly organized and easily referenced with accurate and specific birding information. The best one here is in French, tant pis les monoglotes.

I found old articles from ornithological magazines like the Auk on this page. The search engine lets you isolate articles pertaining to Iceland and the North Atlantic. These are downloadable .pdf files with articles from ornithological magazines even from the 1800s. Very nice.

One article by Richard R, Snell stirred the pot as far as the hybridization of gulls which so frightened me in Texas. He was saying how the naturally variable plumage in one species, the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) was being misinterpreted as hybridation. That is why gulls are so difficult.

-Robert