Ørkenpræstekrave på rejetrawler

Ørkenpræstekrave på rejetrawler


Gaukur Hjartarson fra Island sendte i dag følgende meddelse ud på Eurotwitch vedr. den rødbrystede præstekrave som var landet på et islandsk skib.

I now have detailed information about the Sand Plover I did report two days ago. It is in fact a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii and not a Lesser Sand Plover as had been stated earlier. Still this is a new species for Iceland. The bird landed exhausted on a shrimp trawler north of Skagafjordur (66.32.600N og 19.37.247V) on July 12. It soon died and the corpse is now at the Icelandic Natural Museum.

For more information on rare birds in Iceland see;

http://www.hi.is/~yannk/index-eng.html