This year, a representative from the Siberian tuber host family celebrates Christmas in Skummeslövsstrand in the municipality of Laholm. But the reason why the duck bird with its peculiar beak and habitat in eastern Siberia is sometimes obscured in Sweden is in most cases in error navigation.
- Sometimes they fly wrong, simply. Instead of flying east, toward the Pacific Ocean along Japan and the Korean Peninsula, they stray with birds that are heading the other way and spend the winter here instead. But celebrating Christmas along the Halland coast is not too bad either, says Charlotta Berg, chair of Birdlife Sweden, to TT.
It is not the first time that a Siberian cormorant, belonging to the duck family Merginae, but then in the spring termed as its own species, appears on Swedish soil. Charlotta Berg once spotted an individual on Öland, but understands that the erroneous Russian along the Halland coast attracts.
- It has been seen before in Sweden, but it is an unusual species that is not seen every year. So it's clear that the data from the west coast is attracting interest, she says.