Birds
Passerines can be found in the park’s few, but lush, deciduous forests, while the black grouse has permanent roosting grounds in the pine forest around Storskogvatnet. During some years, the birch forests in the national park house larger populations of willow ptarmigans, while further up in the mountains, the rock ptarmigans live. The fell is home to different birds, like the meadow pipit, snow bunting and the northern wheatear. In the steep mountain sides, both golden eagles and rough-legged buzzards nest, and close to running water you can find the white-throated dipper – Norway’s national bird. Rago National Park boasts plenty of lakes where you can find different birds nesting, like the red-throated and black-throated loon, the common sandpiper and the common goldeneye.
