Vesilintuja Regents Parkissa - Waterfowl at Regents Park

Regents Park in the middle of London is quite an amazing place for birding. An amateur like me was able to get 26 species - mainly waterfowl - of birds in front of my camera just by visiting the lake at the park one afternoon and one morning, both times just about 1 hour. This was the 15th and the 17th March 2009. To see many of the birds it would otherwise be necessary to travel to various places around the world - of course in this case they are not in their natural habitat. I have added a few pictures below taken with my Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lense except for the landscapes which I took with the EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM. I have added a list of all the species I spotted with my camera below the pictures in Finnish, Latin and English (pictures of the ones marked with a star). It did take a few hours to identify all of them. Obviously there where some additional species went undocumented as uninteresting so probably I could have easily spotted over 30 species.

Lontoon Regents Parkissa kuvattuja lintuja - luettelo havaituista lajeista alla. Tähdellä merkityistä ohessa kuva.













Harmaahaikara - Ardea cinerea - Grey Heron
Tiibetinhanhi - Anser indicus - Bar-headed Goose
Lumihanhi - Anser caerulescens - Snow Goose *
Punakaulahanhi - Branta ruficollis - Red-breasted Goose
Afrikanhanhi - Alopochen aegyptiacus - Egyptian Goose
Ristisorsa - Tadorna tadorna - Common Shelduck
Punapäänarsku - Netta rufina - Red-crested Pochard
Lapasotka - Aythya marila - Greater Scaup *
Punasotka - Aythya ferina - Common Pochard
Tukkasotka - Aythya fuligula - Tufted Duck
Heinätavi - Anas querquedula - Garganey
Sinisiipitavi - Anas discors - Blue-winged Teal
Punatavi - Anas cyanoptera - Cinnamon Teal
Punanokkatavi - Anas capensis - Cape Teal
Patagonianhaapana - Anas sibilatrix - Chilöe Wigeon
Uivelo - Mergus albellus - Smew *
Isokoskelo - Mergus merganser - Common merganser
Harjakoskelo - Lophodytes cucullatus - Hooded Merganser *
Kuparisorsa - Oxyura jamaicensis - Ruddy Duck
Alli - Clangula hyemalis - Long-tailed Duck
Pikkutelkkä - Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead
Telkkä - Bucephala clangula - Common Goldeneye
Haahka - Somateria mollissima - Common Eider
Nokikana - Fulica atra - Eurasian Coot
Nokivaris - Corvus corone corone - Carrion Crow
Sepelkyyhky - Columba palumbus - Wood Pigeon *