Guest bird

Mountain finches, winter guests in Central Europe, in some years also invasion birds

Guest bird is an ornithological term and describes a migratory bird that occurs in an area but does not breed there - thus the counterpart to breeding bird . Seasonal winter and summer guests are differentiated. Birds who engage in an area exclusively to the acquisition of food is called food guests visiting birds but seldom are exceptional guest called.

Winter guests in Central Europe usually appear from mid-December to the end of February. Typical are the breeding birds of the Far North, for example, Brambling , bean goose or Waxwing .

Summer visitors are, for example, the swifts in Africa south of the equator. These leave their breeding areas in Central Europe and Asia during the winter of the northern hemisphere and over summer in Africa.

Related terms

• Migrant means birds (and other animals) during migration .
• Irrgast describes a bird in an area that is far from its actual migration route.
• Invasive birds are bird species in which an entire population changes location over a wide area, for example due to a lack of food.

literature

• Ralf Wassmann: Ornithological pocket dictionary . AULA-Verlag Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-89104-627-8