Beach birds, Eastern Denmark (1 Viewer)

[dufay]

Photos were taken yesterday afternoon and today morning just outside Køge on Zealand, Denmark. I am sorry for the bad photo quality, but hope that you can extract some information from them.


1. I am pretty sure this must be a eurasian oystercatcher(?).


2. I am guessing on a young common shelduck, but unsure about this one.


3. Could this be an adult shelduck?


4. Wader, perhaps some kind of sandpiper or shank?


5. Another wader (the bird just right of center)


6. Maybe brants? And if so, what subspecies?


7. Possibly another subspecies of brants?


8. Would it be possible to determine the tern-species shown in this photo?


9. Another photo of the same group of terns.


10. Wader (the bird walking on sand in the center of the photo).


11. Wader (just right of center). Maybe a type of curlew?

 

[lou salomon]

1. yes, Eurasian Oystercatcher
2-3. yes to Common Shelduck
4., 5. and 10. are Common Redshank
6. and 7. yes, Brants; subsp. hard to tell in these pics but most likely all bernicla, with a slight potential for hrota for the rightmost bird in pic 6.
8.+9. Sandwich Terns
11. Eurasian Curlew

 

[dufay]

Great, thank you Lou!

 

[Steve Lister]

As far as I can tell you are right when you have had a go. The waders all look to be Redshanks, except for the Curlew. The terns are Sandwich Terns. The geese are indeed Brents and probably dark-bellied.

 

[dufay]

Thank you, Steve.