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Operation 1000
What started as a joke ended up as a quest: Finding 1.000 spp. in 2024.
Bingo of Helsinki owls
I finally managed to spot all nine owl species in Helsinki after two years, from the large and rare great gray owl to the minute Eurasian pygmy-owl. Here, I gather the stories of all these finds.
- Abbott's babbler (1)
- African darter (1)
- African sacred ibis (1)
- Alpine accentor (1)
- Alpine swift (2)
- Arctic loon (1)
- Armenian gull (1)
- Ashy thrush (1)
- Asian barred owlet (1)
- Asian emerald dove (1)
- Asian green bee-eater (1)
- Atlantic puffin (1)
- Audouin's gull (5)
- Azores buzzard (1)
- Azores chaffinch (1)
- Balearic shearwater (2)
- Banded kingfisher (1)
- Bank swallow (2)
- Bar-bellied pitta (1)
- Bar-tailed godwit (1)
- Barau's petrel (1)
- Barn swallow (4)
- Bearded reedling (1)
- Black guillemot (1)
- Black hornbill (1)
- Black kite (3)
- Black redstart (6)
- Black tern (3)
- Black wheatear (2)
- Black woodpecker (1)
- Black-and-red broadbill (1)
- Black-bellied plover (3)
- Black-crowned night-heron (1)
- Black-headed bulbul (1)
- Black-headed gull (7)
- Black-legged kittiwake (1)
- Black-naped monarch (1)
- Black-tailed godwit (2)
- Black-winged stilt (2)
- Blue rock-thrush (2)
- Blue-winged pitta (1)
- Blue-winged teal (1)
- Bluethroat (3)
- Bonelli's eagle (1)
- Booted eagle (5)
- Boreal owl (1)
- Broad-billed roller (1)
- Broad-billed sandpiper (1)
- Buff-breasted babbler (1)
- Bushy-crested hornbill (1)
- Calandra lark (1)
- Caspian gull (1)
- Caspian tern (1)
- Caucasian snowcock (1)
- Cetti's warbler (2)
- Cinereous vulture (1)
- Cinnamon-headed green-pigeon (1)
- Citril finch (1)
- Clamorous reed warbler (1)
- Coal tit (4)
- Collared kingfisher (1)
- Collared pratincole (2)
- Common buzzard (5)
- Common chaffinch (7)
- Common chiffchaff (9)
- Common crane (2)
- Common cuckoo (2)
- Common eider (2)
- Common firecrest (3)
- Common flameback (2)
- Common greenshank (3)
- Common gull (1)
- Common kingfisher (4)
- Common murre (1)
- Common myna (4)
- Common nightingale (1)
- Common pochard (5)
- Common quail (1)
- Common raven (1)
- Common redshank (2)
- Common redstart (2)
- Common reed warbler (4)
- Common ringed plover (3)
- Common rosefinch (2)
- Common sandpiper (2)
- Common scoter (1)
- Common shelduck (3)
- Common snipe (3)
- Common swift (3)
- Common tern (4)
- Common wood-pigeon (2)
- Coppersmith barbet (1)
- Corn bunting (3)
- Corn crake (1)
- Cory's shearwater (1)
- Crested drongo (1)
- Crested lark (3)
- Crested tit (5)
- Cuckoo-roller (1)
- Dalmatian pelican (1)
- Dartford warbler (4)
- Dunlin (4)
- Dunnock (1)
- Eared grebe (4)
- Elegant tit (1)
- Eurasian blackbird (8)
- Eurasian blackcap (4)
- Eurasian blue tit (3)
- Eurasian collared-dove (5)
- Eurasian coot (5)
- Eurasian crag-martin (3)
- Eurasian curlew (3)
- Eurasian dotterel (2)
- Eurasian eagle-owl (2)
- Eurasian golden oriole (1)
- Eurasian golden plover (2)
- Eurasian goshawk (1)
- Eurasian griffon (5)
- Eurasian hobby (1)
- Eurasian hoopoe (3)
- Eurasian jackdaw (2)
- Eurasian jay (3)
- Eurasian kestrel (9)
- Eurasian linnet (3)
- Eurasian magpie (2)
- Eurasian moorhen (6)
- Eurasian nuthatch (1)
- Eurasian pygmy-owl (1)
- Eurasian scops-owl (1)
- Eurasian skylark (3)
- Eurasian sparrowhawk (3)
- Eurasian spoonbill (2)
- Eurasian teal (5)
- Eurasian thick-knee (3)
- Eurasian tree sparrow (1)
- Eurasian treecreeper (2)
- Eurasian wigeon (2)
- Eurasian woodcock (2)
- Eurasian wren (2)
- European bee-eater (3)
- European goldfinch (3)
- European green woodpecker (1)
- European greenfinch (3)
- European honey-buzzard (2)
- European pied flycatcher (3)
- European red-rumped swallow (3)
- European robin (7)
- European roller (2)
- European serin (4)
- European shag (3)
- European starling (4)
- European stonechat (3)
- European storm-petrel (1)
- European turtle-dove (3)
- Feral pigeon (4)
- Ferruginous duck (3)
- Fieldfare (2)
- Frances's sparrowhawk (1)
- Gadwall (5)
- Garden sunbird (1)
- Garden warbler (1)
- Garganey (3)
- Germain's peacock-pheasant (1)
- Glossy ibis (6)
- Goldcrest (3)
- Golden eagle (5)
- Golden-bellied gerygone (1)
- Goosander (1)
- Gray francolin (2)
- Gray heron (5)
- Gray hypocolius (1)
- Gray wagtail (4)
- Gray-backed tailorbird (1)
- Gray-eyed bulbul (1)
- Gray-headed lovebird (1)
- Great cormorant (3)
- Great crested grebe (3)
- Great egret (3)
- Great gray owl (1)
- Great hornbill (1)
- Great reed warbler (3)
- Great spotted woodpecker (1)
- Great tit (6)
- Great white pelican (1)
- Greater coucal (1)
- Greater flamingo (4)
- Greater racket-tailed drongo (1)
- Greater sand-plover (1)
- Greater scaup (1)
- Greater short-toed lark (1)
- Greater spotted eagle (2)
- Greater vasa parrot (1)
- Greater white-fronted goose (1)
- Greater whitethroat (1)
- Greater yellowlegs (1)
- Green peafowl (1)
- Green sandpiper (2)
- Green warbler (1)
- Green-legged partridge (1)
- Hawfinch (3)
- Helmeted hornbill (1)
- Hen harrier (1)
- Heuglin's gull (1)
- Horned grebe (1)
- Horned lark (1)
- House crow (2)
- House sparrow (5)
- Iberian gray shrike (2)
- Iberian green woodpecker (2)
- Iceland gull (1)
- Indian pied starling (1)
- Indian roller (1)
- Indian silverbill (2)
- Indochinese blue flycatcher (1)
- Isabelline shrike (1)
- Island canary (1)
- Jack snipe (1)
- Jambu fruit-dove (1)
- Kentish plover (2)
- Lapland longspur (1)
- Lappet-faced vulture (1)
- Laughing dove (3)
- Lesser black-backed gull (4)
- Lesser crested tern (1)
- Lesser gray shrike (1)
- Lesser kestrel (1)
- Lesser white-fronted goose (1)
- Lesser whitethroat (1)
- Levant sparrowhawk (1)
- Little bittern (6)
- Little bustard (1)
- Little egret (4)
- Little grebe (4)
- Little owl (2)
- Little ringed plover (4)
- Little stint (2)
- Long-eared owl (2)
- Long-legged buzzard (1)
- Long-tailed duck (2)
- Long-tailed jaeger (2)
- Long-tailed tit (3)
- Lowland white-eye (1)
- Madagascar fish-eagle (1)
- Madagascar green-pigeon (1)
- Madagascar hoopoe (2)
- Madagascar jacana (1)
- Madagascar magpie-robin (2)
- Madagascar pygmy kingfisher (1)
- Malagasy bulbul (2)
- Malagasy coucal (1)
- Malagasy kestrel (1)
- Malagasy kingfisher (1)
- Malagasy palm swift (1)
- Malagasy paradise-flycatcher (1)
- Malagasy pond-heron (1)
- Malagasy turtle-dove (1)
- Mallard (3)
- Marbled duck (3)
- Mascarene martin (2)
- Mascarene paradise-flycatcher (1)
- Mascarene swiftlet (1)
- Masked shrike (1)
- Mauritius fody (1)
- Mauritius gray white-eye (1)
- Meadow pipit (1)
- Mediterranean gull (5)
- Mediterranean shearwater (1)
- Melodious warbler (1)
- Merlin (1)
- Mistle thrush (3)
- Monk parakeet (1)
- Mountain chiffchaff (1)
- Northern gannet (3)
- Northern hawk-owl (2)
- Northern lapwing (4)
- Northern pintail (4)
- Northern shoveler (4)
- Northern wheatear (4)
- Olive bee-eater (1)
- Oriental pied-hornbill (1)
- Oriental turtle-dove (2)
- Osprey (1)
- Pallid swift (2)
- Parasitic jaeger (1)
- Pectoral sandpiper (1)
- Peregine falcon (4)
- Philippine coucal (1)
- Philippine pied fantail (1)
- Philippine pygmy woodpecker (1)
- Pied avocet (4)
- Pied crow (1)
- Pin-tailed sandgrouse (1)
- Pink pigeon (1)
- Pomarine jaeger (1)
- Puff-throated babbler (1)
- Purple heron (4)
- Purple sandpiper (1)
- Purple sunbird (1)
- Pygmy cormorant (1)
- Racket-tailed treepie (1)
- Razorbill (2)
- Red crossbill (4)
- Red fody (2)
- Red kite (1)
- Red-backed shrike (1)
- Red-billed chough (3)
- Red-breasted flycatcher (1)
- Red-crested pochard (3)
- Red-knobbed coot (3)
- Red-legged partridge (2)
- Red-necked nightjar (1)
- Red-necked phalarope (1)
- Red-throated loon (1)
- Red-throated pipit (1)
- Red-vented bulbul (1)
- Red-whiskered bulbul (2)
- Redwing (5)
- Reed bunting (1)
- Reunion bulbul (1)
- Reunion cuckooshrike (1)
- Reunion gray white-eye (1)
- Reunion harrier (1)
- Reunion olive white-eye (1)
- Reunion stonechat (1)
- Rhinoceros hornbill (1)
- Ring ouzel (1)
- Rock bunting (5)
- Rock sparrow (1)
- Rose-ringed parakeet (2)
- Ruddy turnstone (5)
- Ruff (4)
- Rufous-tailed rock-thrush (1)
- Sakalava weaver (1)
- Sanderling (5)
- Sandwich tern (2)
- São Miguel goldcrest (1)
- Sardinian warbler (6)
- Savi's warbler (1)
- Scaly-breasted munia (1)
- Schlegel's asity (1)
- Scopoli's shearwater (1)
- Sedge warbler (1)
- Shikra (1)
- Short-eared owl (2)
- Short-toed snake-eagle (1)
- Short-toed treecreeper (4)
- Siamese fireback (1)
- Siberian chiffchaff (1)
- Sickle-billed vanga (1)
- Slender-billed gull (7)
- Sombre tit (1)
- Song thrush (4)
- Spanish sparrow (1)
- Spectacled warbler (1)
- Spotless starling (2)
- Spotted crake (1)
- Spotted dove (1)
- Spotted flycatcher (1)
- Spotted redshank (1)
- Spur-winged lapwing (1)
- Squacco heron (4)
- Steppe buzzard (1)
- Steppe gull (1)
- Storm's stork (1)
- Streak-eared bulbul (1)
- Striated heron (3)
- Stripe-sided rhabdornis (1)
- Stripe-throated bulbul (1)
- Surf scoter (1)
- Syrian woodpecker (1)
- Tawny owl (3)
- Tawny pipit (1)
- Temminck's stint (1)
- Terek sandpiper (1)
- Thekla's lark (2)
- Thick-billed murre (1)
- Thrush nightingale (1)
- Tree pipit (1)
- Trumpeter finch (1)
- Tufted duck (1)
- Tundra swan (1)
- Ural owl (2)
- Van Dam's vanga (1)
- Village weaver (1)
- Wallcreeper (2)
- Water pipit (1)
- Water rail (3)
- Western black-eared wheatear (1)
- Western Bonelli's warbler (2)
- Western cattle egret (5)
- Western hooded pitta (1)
- Western house-martin (3)
- Western marsh harrier (5)
- Western Orphean warbler (2)
- Western rock nuthatch (1)
- Western subalpine warbler (3)
- Western swamphen (4)
- Western yellow wagtail (2)
- Whimbrel (1)
- Whinchat (2)
- Whiskered tern (4)
- White wagtail (2)
- White-breasted mesite (1)
- White-cheeked tern (1)
- White-crested laughingthrush (1)
- White-eared brown-dove (1)
- White-eared bulbul (2)
- White-faced whistling-duck (1)
- White-headed duck (4)
- White-rumped shama (1)
- White-tailed eagle (1)
- White-tailed lapwing (1)
- White-tailed tropicbird (2)
- White-throated dipper (1)
- White-throated kingfisherr (1)
- White-winged snowfinch (1)
- White-winged tern (1)
- Whooper swan (3)
- Willow ptarmigan (1)
- Willow warbler (3)
- Wood lark (1)
- Wood sandpiper (3)
- Wood warbler (1)
- Woodchat shrike (2)
- Wreathed hornbill (1)
- Wrinkled hornbill (1)
- Yellow-billed kite (1)
- Yellow-browed warbler (2)
- Yellow-fronted canary (1)
- Yellow-legged gull (8)
- Yellowhammer (1)
- Zebra dove (1)
- Zitting cisticola (3)
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