{"id":39486,"date":"2016-05-03T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitoland.com\/en\/?page_id=39486"},"modified":"2016-05-04T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:33:06","slug":"birds-in-april","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitoland.com\/en\/birding\/month-by-month\/birds-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"April"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Stenskv\u00e4tta,-Hans-Olsson<\/a>Northern Wheatear, \u00a9 Hans Olsson[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Birds in April<\/h2>\n

April is an exciting and eventful month in the bird world. It begins often with winter-like conditions and often ends with the summer hot days. Everything seems to be happening during this period. This is also reflected among the birds. While the last of the wintering birds, as the Great Grey Shrike and the Snow Bunting, leaves southern Sweden, several long distance tropic migrants arrives. The Northern Wheatear is usually the first one after the White Wagtail, and then follows a long series of small birds such as the Tree Pipit, Western Yellow Wagtail, and towards the end of the month, Swallows, Flycatchers, Eurasian Wryneck and the first Old World Warblers, with Sweden’s most common bird, the Willow Warbler, in the lead.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]April is a month when one would have to be on all of \u00d6land bird locations simultaneously. But depending on the weather, you can select different strategies in the birding. With southerly winds and fair to partly cloudy weather, is birding of migratory birds at the coast to recommend. From dawn and a few hours ahead the migration is usually the best. Toward the day the migration slows down to sometimes reach a smaller peak again during late afternoon and evening. At midday, it pays instead to search in the coastal groves and juniper shrubs grounds for new coming small birds, or search for, for the season expected, rarities as Hoopoe, Ring Ouzel, European Stonechat and the Common Firecrest.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Most small bird species migrates during the night, and towards dawn they prefer to seek to the earliest protected environment they can find, which at \u00d6land often becomes an isolated tree grove on the coast. This becomes even more evident during foggy and misty mornings, which then can show impressive “fallout” of small birds in the bushes. April is also the month when all of \u00d6land\u2019s wetlands fills with Dabbling Ducks, Grebes, Waders and Crakes, and to the costal meadows have now Pied Avocets, Black-tailed Godwits and Dunlins returned.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\"H\u00e4rf\u00e5gel,<\/a>Hoopoe, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Birds to scout for in April<\/h3>\n

Tundra Swan, Great Egret, Ruff, Whimbrel, Parasitic Jaeger, Mediterranean Gull, Common Tern, Short-eared Owl, Common Redstart, Eurasian Penduline Tit and Common Linnet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"H\u00e4mpling<\/a>Common Linnet, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"\u00c4gretth\u00e4ger,<\/a>Great White Egret , \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"Brushane,<\/a>Ruff, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"Fiskt\u00e4rna,<\/a>Common Tern, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"Svarthuvad<\/a>Mediterranean Gull, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"Pungmes,<\/a>Eurasian Penduline Tit, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"Sm\u00e5spov,<\/a>Whimbrel, \u00a9 Lars Lundmark[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\"Jorduggla,<\/a>Short-eared Owl, \u00a9 Markus Tallroth[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][vc_column_text]\"\u00d6lands-f\u00e5glar-\u00d6OF[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″][vc_column_text]Source<\/strong>: \u00d6lands F\u00e5glar \u00a9 \u00d6lands Ornitologiska F\u00f6rening \u00d6OF<\/a> \u00d6OF (authors this chapter: Pav Johnsson, Anders Waldenstr\u00f6m)<\/p>\n

Translation<\/strong>: Visitoland.com<\/p>\n

Pictures<\/strong>: see each picture<\/p>\n

The book<\/strong>: \u00d6lands F\u00e5glar, 496 pages (only in Swedish), can be ordered at Naturbokhandeln<\/a>
\nISBN<\/strong>: 9789188124555[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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