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    momo's list for switzerland

    Laughing gull The first time I have seen one of these here, and it's probably the first to have knowingly been seen in Switzerland. Had to take a four hour lunch break for the pleasure of observing it for about 30 seconds at extremely close range next to a small fishing boat in the port of...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    Brent goose One juvenile brent goose (may not be a "mega" on the coast, but it is here!), discovered yesterday by someone else in a field about 15 minutes from my house. Apart from the name of the village, I could only find out that it was "in the same field [of winter wheat] as yesterday"...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    Grey (red) phalarope Two of them, in fact, on the lakefront in Yverdon since the end of last week. Lost my gloves, blown away over a wire fence. Could only stand the cold for a few more minutes after that, just long enough for a few snapshots. Here's what I presume to be a juvenile (the other...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    I have put a picture of the by now almost legendary Swiss shore lark here in my gallery, in case anyone's interested. Looks like I'd have met Wintibirder if I'd stayed on top of the Suchet for another 5 or 6 hours.
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    momo's list for switzerland

    Third "lifer". This time a shorelark. It was, and maybe still is, hopping around on top of the Suchet, in the Jura mountains, exactly where one was about ten years ago, the last and (I think) only time a shorelark was seen in our Canton. Although it was found yesterday, I only had it and a...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    I may well have mistaken an ibis for a coot today. Such is life. Sigh ...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    Eagle owl Second "lifer". Not much merit in this. The nest was included in a bird tour of the alps and I just managed to see (and correctly identify, of course) the bird's head for a few seconds at a distance of about 9 zillion yards. Still, on the list it goes ...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    Collared Pratincole One I've never seen before here. Could only spare a lunchtime to look for it, in an idyllic spot called Etang de Pré Bovet, which resembles a building site in the middle of a field. However, what with the photographers already out in force, it wasn't so hard to find. Amazing...
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    momo's list for switzerland

    Updated 21/12/2005 1 great northern diver 2 black-throated diver 3 red-throated diver 4 little grebe 5 great-crested grebe 6 black-necked grebe 7 slavonian grebe 8 red-necked grebe 9 cormorant 10 black-crowned night heron 11 little bittern 12 grey heron 13 purple heron 14 cattle egret 15...
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