Guides at Birding Norway

The Birding Norway guides presented below are among the most experienced birders in Norway. If you want to travel and find birds together with these lads, you will waste no time looking for the right spots - they will put you right in the middle of the best birding scene Norway can offer. If you have specific requests, no effort will be spared to try to find your main target species.

Are you thinking of visiting Norway for birding? Check out our main tours, or send us an e-mail with your specific requests. Basically we will guide you anywhere you want, whenever you want - we are looking forward to hearing from you!

Kjell Mjølsnes was born in 1975 and his birding career began shortly after that… Living at Bryne, near Stavanger, with the famous birding hot-spots at Jæren all around him and a very flexible working situation as a storage manager gives him the opportunity to be out birding almost on a daily basis. All aspects of birds and birding interests him, but his main focus when out birding is finding rare birds. These days, few if anyone knows the birdlife and especially the seasonal changes at Jæren better than Kjell.

Besides actually being out birding Kjell has been the county recorder for Rogaland since 2000 and he is also a member of the National Raritees Committee (NSKF). Kjells girlfriend, Lene Bøe has a master degree in art history and cultural history. Kjell has derived a genuine interest in local cultural history from her, and a day out birding with him at Jæren could easily include a few stops to see some of Jærens historical sights and monuments.

Kjell is ready to pick you up at Stavanger Airport, Sola, at all hotels in the region or where you decide. Trip durations depend on what you want to see. Quite a few birds can be seen in a few hours just outside Stavanger, but a full day is recommended to give Jæren what it truly deserves. Longer regional trips to Lista or the famous bird island of Utsira can also be arranged.

John Stenersen was born in Oslo in 1957, and has been a passionate birdwatcher since childhood. Being a professional photographer, he left newspaper-work in Oslo for a quiet life in the Lofoten Islands. Since 1995 he has lived in the little fishing village of Henningsvær, and mainly worked with nature photography and nature related guiding (birds and cetaceans).

He is a licensed ringer, and has also worked as a field assistant with seabird monitoring at the Røst Islands. Since 2002 he has been a member of the local rarities committee of Nordland. In 1998 he gave out a photo-book about the birds of Lofoten (only in Norwegian), and he is working on a book about the Norwegian Killer Whales (expected published in October 2004).

John is guiding in the Lofoten and Vesterålen Islands, and in mainland localities from Saltfjellet to Tysfjord.