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This page lists books about birds and birdwatching in Norway.

The books are listed by publication date with the most recent at the top.

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Birding Across the Border: Where to Watch Birds in Varanger and the Murmansk Region

Editor: Bjørn Frantzen, Morten Günther, Eugene Potorochin, Yuliya Solntseva

2016

An English language guide to 49 birding locations in Norway and Russia.

A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway: Where, When and How to find the Birds of Norway including Svalbard

Bjorn Olav Tveit

Translation of a 2010 Norwegian publication

2011

"A guide to the birdwatching sites of Norway, including the arctic archipelago of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). More than 350 sites are covered with detailed maps and descriptions on what to see, when to go and how to get there on your own."

Finding Birds in Lapland

Dave Gosney

2010

A 37 page guide to the Northern parts of Finland and Norway subtitled: "Exactly where to go to see the best birds."

100 Natural Wonders of Norway

Tom Schandy and Tom Helgesen

2007

"The ideal book for everyone who loves Norwegian nature. It contains the most splendid areas of natural scenic beauty, from fjords to mountains, from coast to interior. The book takes you on a walk over the gently undulating Finnmarksvidda Plateau, along the idyllic coast of Southern Norway for a dip in the sea, through the old forest in the depths of Nordmarka and to the top of Norway's highest mountain, Galdhopiggen. While including all Norway's national parks and famous tourist attractions such as Preikestolen, Geiranger, the Jostedalbre Glacier and the North Cape, the book also describes more mysterious places, for example, the island of Reinoya in Porsanger, Hitra Island in Trondelag and its abundance of birds, the primeval forest at Draegnismorki-Yttrismorki, the Jutulhogget Canyon in Hedmark and the traditional cultivated landscape on the island of Jeloya in Ostfold."

Arctic Flight: Adventures Amongst Northern Birds

James McCallum

2007

"Arctic Flight is a collection of sketches, paintings and observations made in Finland, Norway, Siberia and Alaska. The artwork and written accounts were all made outdoors from life. This book is a unique visual and written account of travels to experience the wildlife of northern and arctic regions in its many moods and atmospheres."

Norsk RingmerkingsAtlas / Norwegian Bird Ringing Atlas, Volume 2: Pigeons-Passerines

Vidar Bakken, Olav Runde and Even Tjorve

2006

"Presents the results of more than 80 years of ringing in Norway. By means of maps and text the Atlas gives an outstanding insight into the migratory habits and movements of the birds throughout the year. All the introductory chapters are written fully both in Norwegian and English and the main text for each species is in Norwegian with a summary for each species in English."

Norsk RingmerkingsAtlas / Norwegian Bird Ringing Atlas, Volume 1: Diver-Auks

Vidar Bakken, Olav Runde and Even Tjorve

2003

"Presents the results of more than 80 years of ringing in Norway. By means of maps and text the Atlas gives an outstanding insight into the migratory habits and movements of the birds throughout the year. All the introductory chapters are written fully both in Norwegian and English and the main text for each species is in Norwegian with a summary for each species in English."

Pocket Guide To Birds of Britain and North-West Europe

Chris Kightley, Steve Madge, and Dave Nurney

2002

"Covering birds of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and Ireland, this guide describes 386 species of bird, including all breeding species and all regular and scarce migrants. The definitive and accurate text highlights the key features that are required to make quick and safe identification. Almost every species is illustrated with a plate and all plumages regularly seen in the region are depicted. Similar species are compared to scale on double-page spreads as an aid to identification. Numerous maps are also included. This second edition has been extensively revised to include updated information and new artwork."

Where to Watch Birds in Scandinavia

Gustaf Aulen and Johan M. Stenlund

Hamlyn

1996

"A guide to 200 bird-watching sites in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with lists of expected species. General introductions give site instructions and specify the best times."

Travels Of A Naturalist In Northern Europe

J.A. Harvie-Brown

1905

Published in two volumes.

From the preface:

"In the following narratives of three visits paid to the northern parts of Europe, I have made no attempt to rewrite or clothe in new phraseology my original journals. Therefore, any claim they may have upon those of the public who may be disposed to read them is their simple journalistic form and continuity of events - just as they occurred; just as they appeared to me; and just as I wrote them down at the close of each day. At the times my companions and I visited these countries, they were considered as being amongst 'the remoter regions of the earth,' unless perhaps Norway be excepted; for even Wolley and other British collectors had not penetrated so far eastwards as the White Sea, nor collected steadily on the Delta of the Dvina."

• Norway, 1871
• Appendix - List of Birds Observed
• Archangel, 1872
• Introduction
• Narrative
• Appendix A - Full List of the Birds collected around Archangel in 1872
• Appendix B - Full List of Eggs Collected
• Appendix C - List of Birds Collected with young, birds, nests, eggs
• Appendix D - List of the Rarer Birds in the Museum at Archangel Petchora, 1875
• Part I - Journey to Ust Zylma
• Part II - Life and Bird Collecting at Ust Zylma
• Part III - Voyage down the Petchora, and Life at Alexievka
• Part IV - Investigations at the Mouth of the Petchora, and Return Home
• Appendix A - Ignati Piottuch's Eeturn Journey
• Appendix B - List of Birds' Eggs Collected on the great River Petchora and on the Tundras of Siberia
• Appendix C - Analysis of Eesults of Collectors' List of Birds obtained in Russia
• Appendix D - The Samoyedes
• Appendix E - Birds of Lower Petcbora

Bird Life In Arctic Norway: A Popular Brochure

Robert Collett

R.H. Porter

1894

From the preface:

"This paper was written for the Second International Ornithological Congress, held in Budapest, in May, 1S91, and a portion of it was read during one of the meetings of the Congress. The Author wishes there- fore to call attention to the fact that it is adapted to an audience whose conceptions of the natural features of the country described could not be supposed to be great. And in order that the character of the paper in its Norwegian form should be entirely popular, sundry sections or remarks contained in the original edition, were omitted, which might be assumed to have interest for specialists rather than for general readers. Examples of all the species of birds treated of, may be found set up in the Christiania University Zoological Museum, the greater number of them collected in the very regions, whose nature is here sketched from observations during seven summers wanderings in those parts of the country."

Remarks On The Ornithology Of Northern Norway

Robert Collett

Opening lines:

"Each of the last three summers I have been enabled to prosecute a series of of zoological researches in the northern and central portions of the Norwegian coast: in 1870, on the large islands off the Trondhjem Fjord, Hitteren, Froyen, and others; in 1871, in the provinces of Namdalen and Nordland; in 1872, in West Finmark and the neighbourhood of Tromso. The principal ornithological facts resulting from the first of these excursions having been already published, the following pages will embrace my researches during the two last summers in the northern parts of the country. To give a tolerably complete account of the avifauna of a region so characteristically situated and wide in extent as is the northern coast of Norway, the researches of years would hardly suffice. Therefore it is obvious, that what is here recorded, does by no means pretend to exhaust the subject. Nay, I am convinced from the observations I have made, that a rich harvest of facts may yet be gathered from further and more diligent researches in regions so attractive by their situation and general character."

The Naturalist In Norway

Or, Notes On The Wild Animals, Birds, Fishes, And Plants Of That Country

Rev. J. Bowden

R.H. Porter

1869

Opening lines:

"THE English sportsman or naturalist will be much pleased with the Zoological Museum at Christiania, the present capital city of Norway. Here may be seen fine specimens of almost every kind of bird, fish, in- sect, or wild animal, to be found in this interesting coun- try. The Lapland gray owl (Strix Lapponica, Retz), Pallas' s sand grouse, the roller (Ooraccias garrula), the wandering albatross (Diomedia exulans), the glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus), and many other rare birds, all of which have been shot or captured in Norway, are to be seen in this museum. Here also may be observed the common brown bear, the white bear, the Norwegian wolf, the lynx (Felis lynx), the reindeer, the elk, etc."

The Game Birds And Wild Fowl Of Sweden And Norway

With An Account Of The Seals And Salt-Water Fishes Of Those Countries

L. Lloyd

Frederick Warne & Co

1867

From the preface:

"My former Works, 'Field Sports of the North of Europe,' aud 'Scandinavian Adventures,' having been well received, I am induced to submit the present volume to the consideration of the Public. In the last of these works a full, though concise, account is given of all the feathered tribe included in the Northern Fauna, with a promise, at some future time, to enter more into detail as to that portion of it coming under the designation of Game Birds, - such as the Capercali, the Black-Cock, the Hazel-Hen, the Ripa, &c. &c. That promise I have now fulfilled, more especially as regards the Capercali, the pride of the Northern forests, which has so lately been introduced into Scotland, and in which we all feel so much interested. The reader will find a popular account of the several kinds of Seals frequenting the coasts of the Peninsula, as also of the Scandinavian Salt-water Fishes, systematically arranged according to Jenyns - those pertaining to the lakes and rivers of the interior having been already treated of in Scandinavian Adventwes."