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It is the middle of April and the next six weeks are the most exciting of the year (in the Oslo area at least). In addition to many new birds for the year there are also new birding sites to reacquaint myself with and I have now competed my first walk to the end of Årnestangen for the year as well as my first grilling of the mighty Svellet. Conditions today at Svellet were magical and I have a small but growing hope that this will be one of those Svellet springs that are entered into the history books, or at least get remembered on this blog. Today the water level (3.61m) was perfect and there were enormous areas of shallow water and wet mud. 2000 Teal and 234 Curlew were both good counts and the quality came in the form of a male Garganey, a Bar-tailed Godwit plus two very early Ruff and a Redshank. The weather over the coming weeks will be key to whether conditions remain perfect and we need just enough rain such that the mud doesn’t dry up but not too much rain (or sun that causes lots of melt water to flow down the river) such that water levels do not rise too quickly. I hope every birder in Oslo and Akershus is praying to the Birds Gods. Svellet from the eastern side. Even though I describe conditions as perfect the distances are very long and a scope is essential and even then not always enough to identify all the birds out there and some of the Teal (krikkand) and also the Garganey (knekkand). As I said they are a long way away Årnestangen has also delivered with another very early wader in the form of a Whimbrel, an early Swallow and a good selection of raptors including a Red Kite which flew low over my head without me seeing it but that I then caught up with in the scope at about 6km range… Taiga Bean Goose and Greylags at Årnestangen today. This is a relatively late bird as were the 4 Tundra Beans I saw yesterday the bird was close to the Geylags in size and had a long slender neck and long thin bill with thin lower mandible. I had a very enjoyable and successful morning guiding Barbara from Canada on Monday and we saw 60 species including Jack Snipe, Black and Red-throated Divers, Lesser Spotted and Black Woodpeckers. And if you don’t believe my description then read Barbara’s 😊 one of three Jack Snipe (kvartbekkasin) at Fornebu. This bird has been regularly feeding in the open and to me looks very much like a Broad-billed Sandpiper... and a more expected shot of a Jack and a Common Snipe (enkeltbekkasin) male Kestrel (tårnfalk) in Maridalen and a Mistle Thrush (duetrost) in The Dale Little Ringed Plover (dverglo) are back at Fornebu and will hopefully breed again this year and Ringed Plovers (sandlo) are also back at last years nest site although they have less and less space available to them Stock Dove (skogdue)
Den planlagte kraftlinja i Stabbursdalen kan presse den kritisk truede dverggåsa enda nærmere utryddelse. BirdLife Norge arbeider med å stanse utbygging av ny kraftlinje i dverggåsas leveområder. Vi har klaget på vedtak og ber myndighetene skjerme dverggåsa for kollisjonsfare.
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Ringmærkningen: Vindskiftet fra øst til vest satte endnu engang skub i småfugletrækket over Gedser, hvilket bragte mange nye fugle til haven. De første runder havde vi temmeligt travlt, og for...
Ringmærkningen: Vindskiftet fra øst til vest satte endnu engang skub i småfugletrækket over Gedser, hvilket bragte mange nye fugle til haven. De første runder havde vi temmeligt travlt, og for...
15. apr. 2026 kl. 00:00
Observations: Ringing: The first round today was slow and we already thought it would be a boring morning, but the following rounds did provide some birds. And we also got a special one in the net: A...
Ringmærkningen: Trækket på Odden: Efter et par meget overskyede morgener, var det fantastisk at gå mod Odden med næsten skyfri himmel - dog lå disen tungt på marken og over vandet. Morgendis....
14. apr. 2026 kl. 19:08
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14, 2026 SAN ANTONIO— Mitchell Lake Audubon Center (MLAC) today announced the appointment of Anna Macnak as its new Executive Director. A mission-driven leader...
Wildlife and customs officials working to stop the illegal parrot trade are in a tough spot. While it is against the law to capture wild parrots, buying and selling captive-bred individuals remains...
14. apr. 2026 kl. 18:11
Wildlife and customs officials working to stop the illegal parrot trade are in a tough spot. While it is against the law to capture wild parrots, buying and selling captive-bred individuals remains...
14. apr. 2026 kl. 00:37
(April 13, 2026) Governor Gavin Newsom and California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) Secretary Wade Crowfoot has named Camila Bautista, Audubon California’s Salton Sea & Deserts Program Manager...
I marts trak mange voksne musvåger mod nordøst over Danmark med afgang fra Skagen og Nordsjælland. De havde travlt med at nå deres ynglepladser nordpå i Skandinavien. April er i højere grad træktid for unge musvåger, der har bedre tid end de voksne, da de endnu ikke er modne til et familieliv.
As usual, my alarm was set for opening time. After I had turned it off I listened in the silent house. Big raindrops drummed against my window. I checked the DMI radar on my phone, it looked like that....
Today was wet and windy so it meant no ringing could take place in the morning. But János, Julian and Gustav still went out on the migration count. They had less company than normal due to the weather...
Ringmærkningen: This morning started out rather slow, and it did not get much better throughout the day. With only 13 new birds but 28 recaptures, this suggests that most of the birds currently in the...
Ringmærkningen: This morning started out rather slow, and it did not get much better throughout the day. With only 13 new birds but 28 recaptures, this suggests that most of the birds currently in the...
Serenaded by zipping Broad-tailed Hummingbird scouts and the rumble of thunder, Spring Break Camp was a blast at the Randall Davey Audubon Center! Campers, ages 5-12, gathered to laugh...
13. apr. 2026 kl. 07:00
Acclimatization helps Griffon Vultures synchronising their movements and exploring colonies The post Acclimatization shapes vulture movements after release appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
Hver vår våkner naturen til liv. Fuglesang fyller skogen, og trærne blir igjen hjem for tusenvis av hekkende fugler. Likevel pågår skogsdrift mange steder akkurat i denne sårbare perioden. Burde ikke hogst forbys midt i hekketiden?
Spotted! Wading Bird Research Specialist Shauna Sayers caught sight of an elusive band on the leg of a Roseate Spoonbill – a critical piece of data that brings their movement, behavior, and...
In the morning János, Alix, Simon and I were ringing at Kabeltromlen, while Dylan, Alvin and Gustav went out to Nordstrand for the standardized migration count. They tried to be there as early as possible...
Observations : That was quite a foggy day!We had to stop our observations short because we could no longer see the reef clearly.Still, when conditions allowed, we spotted around 90 common terns [fjordterne]...
Ringmærkningen: Despite the strong easterly wind, which is really bad for us, there was some activity in the garden. We managed to ring 34 birds and recapture 17, bringing the total number of 51 birds...
