Wildlife to see in Norway in October
3 spectacles at their peak in Norway in October, and 2 more still going on. Wild animals only: no zoos, no wildlife parks, no hunting. Open Norway in October in the interactive calendar for listening times on the day you pick.
At their peak in October
Autumn migration at Lista, Jomfruland and UtsiraDawn flight calls of thousands of thrushes, pipits and finches leaving the coast, waders on the Lista beaches, skuas and gannets passing the lighthouse in a westerly gale; at night, redwing and song thrush calls overhead.
Wild reindeer rut on the high plateausBulls' hoarse grunting and antler-clatter, the tendon click of a thousand hooves as a herd moves, rock ptarmigan, wind and snow; almost no anthropogenic sound on the inner plateaus.
Moose rut in the eastern forestsSubdued compared with red deer: bulls' low grunts and 'oouh' calls, cows' long nasal moans, antlers thrashing in willow and birch, heavy splashing in bog; tawny owl and cranes overhead; rifle shots — the hunt opens 25 September.
Also going on in October
Orcas and humpbacks on the winter herring, SkjervøyWith a hydrophone: orca calls, whistles and echolocation from several pods carousel-feeding, humpback social sounds and feeding calls, the hiss of a herring ball being tail-slapped; above water, blows, tail-slaps and the roar of a humpback lunge; fishing vessels' sonar and engines.
White-tailed eagles: Smøla, Lofoten and the TrollfjordThe eagle's yelping 'klee-klee-klee' duet from a nest crag, wing-rush of a 2.4 m bird taking a fish 10 m from the boat, gull and tern colonies, otters whistling in the skerries.