Birds

Kaempfer's woodpecker

The Kaempfer's woodpecker (Celeus obrieni), also known as Piauí woodpecker, is a species of woodpecker from Brazil.

Wood Grouse

The Wood Grouse (Tetrao urogallus), Heather Cock or Capercaillie is a very large and heavy fowl similar to the black grouse, but distinguished from it in larger size and the rounded tail. The bird is found in northern and central Europe and northern Asia.

Wood Grouse

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Piping Plover

The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. Their breeding habitat includes beaches or sand flats on the Atlantic coast, the shores of the Great Lakes, and in the mid-west of Canada and the United States. They nest on sandy or gravel beaches or shoals.

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Great Shearwater

The Great Shearwater (Puffinus gravis) nest on the islands of Nightingale Island and Inaccessible Island in the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island. A very small number, not more than 15 pairs nest in the Falkland Islands.
During the breeding season the Great Shearwater can be found in an area stretching from the southern tip of Africa to South America's east coast. It is one of the few nesting bird species in the southern hemisphere that is moving to the northern hemisphere. During this long flight the Great Shearwater follows a circular path when it first goes north to the waters off South America and then go to the north along North America's east coast before crossing the Atlantic in August.
Great Shearwater breed in large colonies on sub-arctic islands that are visited only at night to avoid predators. The bird's nest is built in a soil pit dug into the sloping ground.

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Bean Goose

The bean goose (Anser fabalis) breed in northern Eurasia and is a migratory bird that winters in scattered locations in Europe, Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Korea and Japan. It has been observed in Canada, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali and the Azores and Iceland.

Bean goose

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Bearded Vulture

The Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey. It eats mainly carrion and lives and breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and Tibet. Populations are resident.

Bearded Vulture

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Rock Ptarmigan

The Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is found in arctic and subarctic Eurasia and North America including Greenland. There are a number of isolated mountain populations at lower latitudes in Scotland, the Pyrenees, Alps and Bulgaria, the Urals, Pamir, Altai, and Japan. During the last Ice Age this species was much more widespread throughout Europe. Most of the world population of ptarmigans are resident birds.

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Grey-headed lapwing

The grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus) is a lapwing species which breeds in northeast China and Japan. The mainland population winters in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia. The Japanese population winters, at least partially, in southern Honshū.