Vagrants of the eastern Varanger Peninsula.

Last Updated on September 8th 1999.
By Tommy Pedersen

ARCTIC VAGRANTS;  
SPECTACLED EIDER (S.fischeri) RECORDED THREE TIMES; 1 M. VARDØ HARBOUR 12.12.1933 - 2 M. & 1 F. VARDØ HARBOUR 23.-24.02.1988 - 1 M. MORTENSNES 15.06.1997
HARLEQUIN DUCK (H.histrionicus histrionicus) RECORDED ONCE; ONE MALE VARDØ, 18.06.1986
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (B.islandica) RECORDED TWICE; SHOT IN NESSEBY IN 1848 AND VARDØ 1851
ROSS'S GULL (R.rosea) RECORDED TWICE; BERGEBYELVA 28.06.1975 AND SALTTJERN (sec.cal) 29.06.1995
IVORY GULL (P.eburnea) RECORDED ONCE; A 2K VADSØ HARBOUR 24.-31.03.1987
SABINES GULL (X.sabini) RECORDED SEVERAL TIMES, SUMMER AND AUTUMN. BEST MORTENSNES AND NESSEBY, ALSO SEEN VARDØ
   
NORTH AMERICAN VAGRANTS;  
AMERICAN WIGEON (A.americana) RECORDED ONCE; ONE MALE AT SALTTJERN, 25.05.1986
GREEN-WINGED TEAL (A.crecca carolinensis) RECORDED ONCE; EKKERØY FAIRLY RECENTLY.
SURF SCOTER (M.perspicillata) RECORDED THREE TIMES; MALES AT KOMAGVãR 18.06.1978, KRAMPENES 19.06.1978 AND SKALLELV 16.-18.06.1979
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER (L.griseus griseus) RECORDED ONCE; VARDØ 06.07.1971
LEAST SANDPIPER (C.minutilla) RECORDED ONCE; ONE IND. PERSFJORD, 08.06.1995
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (C.fuscicollis) RECORDED THREE TIMES; ONE KROGNES, 06.06.1980, ONE AD. VADSØYA 20.-30.07.1990, ONE 2K+ HAMNINGBERG, 21.07.1993
PECTORAL SANDPIPER (C.melanotos) SEVEN TIMES; EKKERØY 27.05.79 & 24.05 - 26.06.93 & 24.05.97, HAMNINGBERG 07.06.82, VARDØ 10.6.68, KRAMVIK 24.-25.5.97
LESSER YELLOWLEGS (T.flavipes) RECORDED ONCE; VESTRE JAKOBSELV 26.06.1982
STILT SANDPIPER (M.himantopus) RECORDED ONCE; ONE IND. HAMNINGBERG, 16.-17.06.1987
RING-BILLED GULL (L.delawarensis) RECORDED TWICE; ONE PRESENT IN VARDØ TOWN, 04. - 20.07.1995, AND ONE FIRST-WINTER IN VADSØ HARBOUR 26.03.1998
BUFF-BELLIED PIPIT (A.rubescens) RECORDED ONCE; ONE IND. NESSEBY 10.10.1997
   
SOUTH EUROPEAN VAGRANTS;  
PURPLE HERON (A.purpurea purpurea) RECORDED ONCE; 1 EX. KRAMPENES, JULY 1950
WHITE STORK (C.ciconia ciconia) RECORDED TWICE; 1 EX. HAMNINGBERG ca. 1965, AND 1 EX. NESSEBY 1983
RUDDY SHELDUCK (T.ferruginea) RECORDED THREE TIMES; 1 EX. VARDØ 1916, 1 EX. NESSEBY 1979 AND 1 EX. HAMNINGBERG FAIRLY RECENTLY.
RED KITE (M.milvus milvus) RECORDED ONCE; 1 EX. NESSEBY 11.07.1973
EGYPTIAN VULTURE (N.percnopterus percnopterus) RECORDED ONCE; 1 EX. HAMNINGBERG 23.07.1982
STEPPE EAGLE (A.nipalensis) RECORDED ONCE; NESSEBY 1983
LITTLE BUSTARD (T.tetrax tetrax) RECORDED ONCE; 1 EX. VARANGER (NESSEBY?) 1906
STONE CURLEW (B.oedicnemus oedicnemus) RECORDED ONCE; ONE IND. HAMNINGBERG 02.07.1984
WHITE-WINGED TERN (C.leucopterus) RECORDED TWICE; ONE AT SALTTJERN (DATE ?), AND ONE IND. KIBERG 21.06.1986
EURASIAN TURTLE-DOVE (S.turtur turtur) RECORDED ONCE; 1 EX. VADSØ AIRPORT 17.06.1979
GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO (C.glandarius) RECORDED ONCE; ONE IND INDRE KIBERG
EUROPEAN BEE-EATER (M.apiaster) RECORDED TWO TIMES; 1 EX. EKKERØY 24.06.1968, AND NEAR KIBERG CA. 1985
EUROPEAN ROLLER (C.garrulus garrulus) RECORDED TWICE; NESSEBY 1868, AND NEAR PERSFJORD FAIRLY RECENTLY
EURASIAN GOLDEN-ORIOLE (O.oriolus oriolus) RECORDED ONCE; A MALE AT VADSØ CAMPING 24.06.1991
COMMON STONECHAT (S.torquata rubicola) RECORDED ONCE; VADSØ 1983
CRESTED LARK (G.cristata cristata) RECORDED ONCE; VADSØ 1927
RED-RUMPED SWALLOW (H.daurica rufula) RECORDED TWICE; KRAMPENES 25.05.1991 AND 1 EX. HORNØYA OUTSIDE VARDØ 04-16.07.1998
CORN BUNTING (E.calandra) RECORDED ONCE; NESSEBY IN JUNE 1997
   
ASIAN VAGRANTS;  
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER (C.acuminata) RECORDED ONCE; ONE ADULT AT KRAMVIK, 27.-28.05.1989
LITTLE CURLEW (N.minutus) RECORDED ONCE; HAMNINGBERG 1969
CASPIAN PLOVER (C.asiaticus) RECORDED ONCE; ONE IND. EKKERØY, 09.06.1978
TEREK SANDPIPER  (T.cinerea) RECORDED TWICE; 1 EX. PHOTOGRAPHED IN NESSEBY, YEAR UNKNOWN, AND ONE PHOTOGRAPHED NESSEBY 09.06.1999
SIBERIAN STONECHAT (S.maura maura) RECORDED TWICE; A FEMALE AT NESSEBY 02.06.1981, AND A MALE NEAR MORTENSNES 10.07.1994, WITH A FEMALE WHINCHAT
YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING (E.aureola aureola) RECORDED TWICE; NESSEBY, 12.06.1983, AND VESTRE JAKOBSELV 11.06.1994 (Bosse Danielsson)
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL  (T.cyanurus) RECORDED ONCE; 1 EX. IN VADSØ TOWN