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Portrait of a female red-necked phalarope on a lake, staring directly at the camera, having her beak open.

Plumage and gender roles of the red-necked phalaropes

5. February 2025

While male birds are typically the more colorful ones, red-necked phalaropes have reversed gender roles, and the males look a bit duller than the females.

Fun facts
Behavior

Color ring on the legs of a herring gull, with the code JA6C0.

Gloria, our neighboring herring gull, received a ring.

22. January 2025

Gloria, one of our neighborhood gulls, recently showed up on our balcony wearing a color ring, which gives us access to some more info about their life.

Birdwatching

Portrait of a bridled common murre standing in front of a teal/blue blurry background (out of focus ocean), photographed from the chest up. The belly is white, the back and head are very dark brown (but look black), medium-sized sharp gray beak. Around its eye is a white circle and line, resembling glsses. The bird eye is in focus, along with tiny water droplets on top of the head. Light cimes from the left behind of the murre.

About the beautiful bridled common murres.

3. September 2024

Common murres come in two visual variations. Bridled individuals are less common, and a have white "glasses" around the eyes.

Research
Fun facts

Group of purple sandpipers foraging in the water. Two of them in the middle are in focus. In front and behind them are out of focus sandpipers.

The parental roles of purple sandpipers.

29. August 2024

Purple sandpipers are monogamous, male and female share the egg incubation, but hatching the male is the only one taking care of the chicks.

Behavior
Research
Fun facts

Portrait photo from the chest upwards of an adult European Herring Gull just moulting into winter plumage, with light brown stripes on the head. She's looking towards the camera, and around her right eye her feathers are standing upwards and have blood on them.

Meet Gloria, one of our herring gull neighbors.

22. August 2024

Get to know Gloria, one of the gulls living in our street in Oslo. She often hangs out on the neighbor's roof, and occasionally visits our balcony too.

Birdwatching

Wide picture of a rocky beach with mountains on either side, and thousands of herring gulls and great black-backed gulls (mostly juveniles/below 4yo) all over the beach, showing up as little white dots against the gray rocks.

An evening with thousands of gulls in Hamningberg

12. August 2024

This summer I photographed a large flock of gulls on a beach in Varanger, and afterwards counted thousands of them on my pictures.

Birdwatching
Locations

adult kittiwake standing on top of a gull-poop-covered roof, on an overcast day, looking towards the right of the frame and shouting at something off-camera, beak wide open with the tongue out.

I finally launched my photo portfolio & blog

4. August 2024

I've wanted to develop my own photo blog since 2019, and this summer I finally got around to do it.

General

Adult herring gull looking at the camera from behind a diagonal roof.

What we know about "our" herring gull Josefine

1. August 2024

Josefine is a herring gull living on our roof. She was banded as an adult in January 2016, giving us a lot of information about her.

Birdwatching

Adult herring gull looking at the camera from behind a diagonal roof, with a trans flag colored sky in the background

Introduction to Gulliver and Josefine, our rooftop gulls

24. July 2024

Two tough herring gulls have our rooftop balcony as their favorite hangout spot, and enjoy watching us as much as we enjoy watching them.

Birdwatching

Small white duck with black eyes and black stripes on the body, swimming in dark gray water, with white ice in the background.

Rare bird 🚨 Smew at Østensjøvannet

1. March 2024

This winter I had the opportunity to photograph a rare winter visitor at the local nature reserve: a smew, a small duck that typically breeds in the arctic.

Birdwatching
Locations