Birds

Hen Harrier

The Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) or Northern Harrier is a migratory bird that breeds across the northern parts of the northern hemisphere, in Canada, USA and northern Eurasia. In winter, the palearctic populations move to more southern areas of Europe, northern Africa and temperate Asia, and occurs as far north as southern Sweden and northern Britain. The nearktiska populations moving to the more southern parts of the United States, to Mexico and Central America. In the milder breeding areas, such as France, Britain and southern U.S. species can occur year round. Hen Harrier is a bird of prey that breeds in heathland and wetlands, but even in rural cultivation in Eurasia.
The hen harriers place their nests directly on the ground.
The hen harrier hunts small mammals and birds by surprise attacks, by slowly gliding over fields and moors. This harrier tends to be a very vocal bird while it glides over its hunting ground.

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Arctic Loon

Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) is known as Arctic Loon in North America and Black-throated Diver in Eurasia.
Arctic loon nests in Scotland, Scandinavia, the Baltics, eastward through Siberia in Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Alaska. The Arctic loon is a bird which nests in clear fish-filled lakes in the interior or in bays and moving in winter to marine areas.
The bird places its nest on the ground, often on a tuft on the beach or a short distance up on land.

Arctic Loon

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Black Skimmer

The Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts, but the South American races make only shorter movements in response to annual floods which extend their feeding areas in the river shallows. Skimmers have a light graceful flight, with steady beats of their long wings. They feed usually in large flocks, flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water for small fish, insects, crustaceans and molluscs caught by touch by day or especially at night.

Razorbill

Razorbill (Alca torda) is most common in the Arctic Circle. Its breeding grounds are islands, rocky shores and cliffs located along the shores of the North Atlantic, eastern North America as far south as Maine, and in Western Europe from northwestern Russia to the north of France. North American birds are migrating and wintering at sea off the coast in an area stretching from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to New England.
Razorbill is a colonial seabird That will only come to land in order to breed.

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Arctic Redpoll

The Arctic Redpoll (Carduelis hornemanni) is found mainly in the tundra of northern America and Eurasia and on Greenland

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Redpoll

Redpolls (Acanthis flammea) breed in northern Eurasia and in large parts of arctic North America.

Redpoll

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Northern Hawk Owl

The Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) occurs in northern North America, Europe and Asia.
The Hawk Owl normally occur in coniferous and preferably at the edge towards more open vegetation. The bird is partly active during the day.
The Hawk Owl places its nest in hollow trees or use other birds abandoned nests.
The main diet consists of small rodents and small birds.

Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a migratory bird that breeds in colonies in the circumpolar arctic and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. The species is known to be the animal in the world that move the longest distance between their breeding grounds and their winter quarters, which are found in Antarctica. The populations that are moving, move about 40 000 km annually, equivalent to a lap around the earth.

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