A goose-watching visit to northern Iceland

Article Sidebar

PDF

Main Article Content

Robert Gillmor
N G Blurton Jones

Abstract

Undue optimism is not wise where bird watching is concerned and perhaps we should have been less disappointed had we treated the assurances that Skagafjordur swarmed with Barnacle Geese in autumn with greater caution. We stayed at Silfrastadir in Skagafjordur (about forty miles south west of the second largest town in Iceland, Akureyri) from 3 to 24 September. We covered the surrounding countryside on foot for an area of about 5 miles in each direction. The fact that we found no sizeable flocks of Barnacle Geese staying in the valley until 13 September was also discouraging. During our stay there were always up to 150 of the local Greylags in the area and these were quite interesting to watch when conditions were suitable.

Article Details

How to Cite
Gillmor, R., & Blurton Jones, N. G. (1958). A goose-watching visit to northern Iceland. Wildfowl. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/article/view/154386
Issue
The Wildfowl Trust Tenth Annual Report
Section
Artikler

Articles in Wildfowl volumes 1-74 and in Wildfowl Special Issues 1-7  are not licensed under Creative Commons. In these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively.

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (which published the journal from 1948–2020 inclusive) retains a royalty-free license in perpetuity to access and use pre-2021 issues for the purposes of research, which may involve sharing with research partners from time to time.

The copyright for this paper belongs to the Author(s). Papers published in Wildfowl 75 (in 2025) and subsequent issues are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

In the articles published in these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish the articles. Authors can upload their articles into an institutional repository.