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It has been commented that I moan about the weather nearly as much as I write about birds and that is no doubt correct and to prove it – the weather is just wrong at the moment! +12C night and day, southerly winds, overcast and drizzle and not a good, out of season bird to show for it…I’m hoping for Pallid Swift, Hoopoe, Desert Wheatear or at the absolute minimum a Firecrest… I’m not sure if out of desperation or a real expectation that there would be something good but I found myself sea gazing at Krokstrand yesterday. The site of many a good seawatch a decade or more ago it now serves as a reminder of how autumn weather patterns and arrivals of seabirds have changed. For the nostalgia value it was good to be there and remember previous visits with skuas of all 4 species, Brunnich’s Guillemot, Sabines Gull, Grey Phalarope and all the more expected but still for these parts unusual stuff. Yesterday wasn’t a disaster and there were birds and not just sea to gaze at but it was not a day that will be remembered in a week’s time let alone a decade’s time. Three Kittiwakes were the best of the bunch and there were double digit numbers of Guillemots along with three each of Razorbill and Little Auk but I could just as easily have seen the auks in Oslo. A nocturnal visit into Maridalen with the thermal imager revealed unsurprisingly that Woodcock are still around with 4 seen along a short stretch. Slightly more unusual was a single Common Snipe and two Fieldfares that were seemingly roosting on the ground in a stubble field. Nearby at least 20 Magpies were roosting together in some isolated bushes. A Tawny Owl called but I picked up no other owls hunting over the stubble fields despite there seeming to be increasing numbers of mice. Krokstrand looking south towards more open sea and looking north towards Oslo and the end of the fjord Woodcock (rugde) taken just with the aid of my head torch and here using the camera's inbuilt flash. Note how far up the mud goes on the birds long beak showing quite how deep it has been probing for worms a Fieldfare (gråtrost) one of two which I believe were roosting on the ground rather than nocturnal feeding and a Common Snipe (enkeltbekkasin) an unusually easy to observe Little Grebe (dvergdykker) on the park lake at Valle Hovin. In Norway it is unusual to see one so well
6. nov. 2025 kl. 06:00
The BOU Summer Placement Scheme provides financial support for undergraduate students to carry out small summer ornithological research projects. Here Rebecca Gillmore provides an account of her time on Puffin Island. The post The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
The 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report revealed that birds are suffering rapid population declines across the United States from impacts like habitat loss. Audubon’s science shows that two-thirds...
This month, Audubon experts will travel to the heart of the Amazon rainforest—not to study birds in the wild (at least not this time), but to demonstrate how Audubon’s science, conservation work...
19178 Mexico has officially begun the process of developing its own National Bird Conservation Strategy (ENCA)—an urgent and necessary initiative to protect birds, ecosystems, cultures, and...
Morgenobs Da vi satte os til rette i hullet havde vi ikke de store forhåbninger til fugletrækket, men vi blev positivt overrasket af en ny gæst og en efterhånden vant fugl. Trækket startede temmelig...
Although the forecast showed rain for most of this morning, we no longer truly believe it, and so we decided to brave the outdoors and try out both ringing and observing. Often the best birds come in the...
5. nov. 2025 kl. 00:00
Ringmærkningen: Xxxxxx Trækket på Odden: Allerede før solopgang var der fuld gang i et stort træk af Ederfugle (Somateria mollissima) med omkring tusind fugle i løbet af standardtidens første halve...
Hog Island is hallowed ground in the birding community. It was the launching pad of a puffin restoration project that is still going strong after more than 50 years, and it has been a gathering place...
“What I am most proud of accomplishing during this program is stepping out of my comfort zone and discovering the hidden gem that is the Salton Sea. This experience pushed me to engage with a...
Morgenobs The southwestern wind did not bring a lot of interesting birds today. Some little gulls and a single velvet scoter might have been the most interesting bird. Had it not been for a late arctic...
Hej! The weather in Grenen today made us feel like we were swallowd by a cloud. The sun was gone the whole day and the air was full of tiny water droplets, covering everything in moisture. Nevertheless...
Ringmærkningen : What can I say about this morning? It was slow at the beginning, slower in the middle and slow at the end... The wind speed was around 10 m/s, which is the limit for ringing. So, we decided...
To Make Owling in the future Great Again Per Christian has been banging together Tengmalm’s nest boxes and Great Grey Owl platforms and on Sunday I helped him hang them up along Owl Road. Hopefully they will be used already next spring and if so will make finding these species so much easier. Whilst we were out we did not see either of the two species but did have a really nice encounter with a Pygmy Owl. Today I had a perhaps even better with another Pygmy Owl in Maridalen and maybe we should be hanging up nesting boxes for them although I think they will have no lack of natural (Great Spotted) Woodpecker holes to use. I also visited Østensjøvannet today as a swift was reported nearby yesterday. Although reported as a Common Swift it is far more likely that it was a Pallid. It is relatively warm at the moment (close to 10C) but there are no visible flying insects so a Swift will struggle in the city so it was no surprise that I did not refind it. A Scaup was far more expected but still good bird to find and at least two Water Rails were an addition to my Oslo year list. me underneath a GG Owl platform and Per Christian putting it up me and a Tengmalm's box The Pygmy Owl on Owl Road which can be heard giving its autumn song in the video: Pygmy Owl (spurveugle) And today's bird in Maridalen: the Scaup (bergand) at Østensjøvannet and a Water Rail (vannrikse) Wigeon (brunnakke) the female Pintail (stjertand) at Østensjøvannet and a big surprise was this flock of Pintails flying over Owl Road
Af Michael Mosebo Jensen Mandag den 10. november 2025 kl. 19:00 i foreningens lokaler på Rasmus Rask Skolen, Brændekildevej 30, Odense. Foredrag af Allis Højgård...
3. nov. 2025 kl. 06:00
Report from a BOU-funded project The post Searching for signals of local adaptation in an endemic bird of the Tropical Dry Forest of Mexico: conservation perspectives in the face of climate change appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
Morgenobs: Dagen startede med en jævn vind fra SV med en nogenlunde klar himmel og god sigt. Fra hullet kom et stille og roligt træk af de sædvanlige fugle, med den forskel at fuglene kom tæt på...
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Morgenobs: Dagen startede med en jævn vind fra SV med en nogenlunde klar himmel og god sigt. Fra hullet kom et stille og roligt træk af de sædvanlige fugle, med den forskel at fuglene kom tæt på...
Dagens morgenobservation blev varetaget af Miles, Florian, Anton og Jørgen på Verdens Ende 3. Det blev en stille morgen, hvor aktiviteten dalede op ad formiddagen, men allerede tidligt dukkede der dog...
Trækket på Odden: Kommer snart Ringmærkningen: I dag har været en dejlig dag. Vi har ringmærket 77 nye fugle, fordelt på 14 arter. De kom dryssende jævnt i løbet af hele dagen og holdt...
Blåvand Fuglestation havde i forårssæsonen besøg af tyske Joseph Stephan, der som en del af opholdet undersøgte, hvordan ynglesuccesen hos dværgterne på stranden ved Blåvand kan forbedres ved at forsøge at forhindre predation på unger og æg.
This morning, Amira, Anton and I opened the nets at the ringing. Mara joined for first round, after a much deserved lie in. Mara is always at the ringing and always helping open, so we were happy to give...
Morgenobs The weatherforecast did not hold up today. We were promised small and fragile winds but enden up with upwards to 9 meters per second from west-southwest. Not a bad windredirection. We were nine...
Ringmærkningen : Nobody was at the tip for the migration count this morning because there were only three of us, or I should say two and a half for the ringing... Why? Because I injured my ankle two...
