Oiseaux de l'Atlantique
The birds that don't fit anywhere else
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Some birds refuse to fit into a box. The kingfisher, the hoopoe, the cuckoo, the gannet: they have nothing in common, except that I didn't know where to put them. So they get a page of their own, for all the birds I can't place anywhere else on this site.

Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet

Seen
Fou de Bassan · Jan-van-gent
Morus bassanus

Great Cormorant

Wanted
Grand Cormoran · Aalscholver
Phalacrocorax carbo
Leach's Storm Petrel

Leach's Storm Petrel

Seen
Océanite culblanc · Vaal stormvogeltje
Hydrobates leucorhous
Common Kingfisher

Common Kingfisher

Seen
Martin-pêcheur d'Europe · IJsvogel
Alcedo atthis
Eurasian Hoopoe

Eurasian Hoopoe

Seen
Huppe fasciée · Hop
Upupa epops
Common Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Seen
Coucou gris · Koekoek
Cuculus canorus

European Green Woodpecker

Wanted
Pic vert · Groene specht
Picus viridis

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Wanted
Pic épeiche · Grote bonte specht
Dendrocopos major

Common Crane

Wanted
Grue cendrée · Kraanvogel
Grus grus

Common Wood Pigeon

Wanted
Pigeon ramier · Houtduif
Columba palumbus

Common Pheasant

Seen
Faisan de Colchide · Fazant
Phasianus colchicus

Grey Partridge

Seen
Perdrix grise · Grijze patrijs
Perdix perdix

Red-legged Partridge

Wanted
Perdrix rouge · Rode patrijs
Alectoris rufa

Common Quail

Seen
Caille des blés · Kwartel
Coturnix coturnix