Birds in remote areas

[Vultur]

Do birds in remote areas such as the Antarctic fear humans? Are they curious?

[Hanno]

I have never been to the Antarctic, but have found birds in Mongolia (the remotest I have ever been) very approachable, sometimes getting right close to them. I think how approachable a bird is really depends on the hunting pressure, not the remoteness. In Europe, birds in parks will eat out of your hand, here in Vietnam (where everything that moves is eaten, birds are extremely wary.

[Steven Astley]

Yes I think generally birds that have had no contact with humans have no reason to fear man. Wasn't one of the reasons that dodo became exsticnt was cause it had never seen humans before and thus didn't flea in fear

[wintibird]

I spent a summer as guide in Svalbard, a arctic archipelago, north of Norway. The birds were very tame and very approaching. A pair of Red Phalaropes (= Grey Phalaropes) were mating on my boots when I sat still....

[sclateria]

Ivory Gull has a reputation for being absolutely fearless.

Brad

[Bubbs]

Ivory Gull has a reputation for being absolutely fearless.

Brad

Sanderlings in northern coastal Kenya will walk over over your feet. Tereks too will come close, as will Greater and Lesser Sandplovers.


John.

[Bubbs]

Sanderlings in northern coastal Kenya will walk over over your feet. Tereks too will come close, as will Greater and Lesser Sandplovers.


John.

PS. a normal zoom digi camera should suffice.