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JANNIK HANSEN, LARS HOLST HANSEN, NIELS MARTIN SCHMIDT AND JEROEN RENEERKENSTABLE 11. Numbers of individuals and observations of avian visitors and vagrants at Zackenberg 2007, compared with the numbers of individuals observed inthe preceding seasons, 1995-2006. Multiple observations reasonably believed to have been of the same individual have been reported as one individual.Visitors and vagrants__________________________________________________________________________________ Previous records ________________________________2007Species 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 No individual No. observationsGreat northern diver 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1Wooper swan 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Snow goose a 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 0 23 0 0 0 1 1 bCanada goose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3 2 cPintail duck e 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3Common teal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 gMerlin 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Gyr falcon 1 1 >1 3-4 >5 4-6 5 2 4 4 2 0 3 2 lEurasian golden plover 0 3 1 4 1 0 2 a 1 0 1 1 1 1 3White-rumped sandpiper 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0Pectoral sandpiper 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 2Purple sandpiper 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0Red phalarope 0 0 0 4-5 a 0 0 4 a 0 1 0 2 f 11 f 0 0Common snipe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 dEurasian curlew 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3Whimbrel 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0Pomarine skua 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Arctic skua 0 0 12 6 0 2 7 4 3 2 0 1 0 0Great skua 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0Lesser black-backed gull j 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 eIceland gull 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0Great black-backed gull 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Black-legged kittiwake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 f 0 0 0 0 0 fArctic tern ≈200 2 1 2 0 14 0 0 32 17 0 0 0 0Snowy owl 0 0 2 1 1 1-2 >4 a 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 jMeadow pipit e 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 gWhite wagtail 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1Northern wheatear e 4 8 2 >3 1 0 h 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 k 1Arctic redpoll 7 9 16 >11 a 9 5 4 6 31 i 12 3 a 2 8 7 mLapland longspur 0 0 0 0 1-2 0 1-2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0aAt least one territory, possible territory or breeding found, see table 1;bCircled over station with a snow goose/barnacle goose hybrid. The snow goose landed in camp and stayed for 3 days. Tame. See text.[74]