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by Natalie Al-Shihabi, Conservation Leadership Initiative InternAudubon Florida’s Conservation Leadership Initiative (CLI) grants 25 undergraduate students annually the chance to match with a local...
19. maj 2026 kl. 19:53
GUILFORD, Conn. — More than half of Connecticut’s salt marshes have been lost after hundreds of years of human intervention, but there is a growing movement to restore these habitats for the...
It would have been a strange scene to onlookers — all thirty of us out in the field dancing to music from the 70s wearing colorful rain gear while April snow blew sideways. Despite the weather and...
Yesterday, saw me on a friends and family guiding to the owls in Hedmark. It was very successful if, as always, tiring trip. Two nesting Great Grey Owls included my back up nest which I visited for the first time and the pair that I have now previously visited which have acted in a very aggressive way without being on the nest. On yesterday’s visit the female again announced her presence by bill snapping when we were 50m away and could not see either her or the nest. She was perched quite high in a tree and continued snapping noisily whilst we watched her. It is quite uncomfortable being there when the bird seems so unhappy/angry so we didn’t hang around but I kept looking over my shoulder as we left just in case she flew at us but instead she flew onto the nesting platform and acted very much as though she was on eggs! But this raises a number of questions: 1. Why was she not on the nest initially? My experiences with other nesting GGO over the years has always been that the females stay on the nest no matter what. 2. Why does she continue to be so aggressive in her behaviour? At the other nest we visited the female made no noise and hardly seemed to follow our movements 3. Why is she so late in egg laying? The eggs (if there actually are some) must surely have been laid since my visit with Jack on 5th May whereas I know that at the other nest the first egg was laid on 22nd April which I think is in itself a fairly late date. the particularly aggressive female GGO in a tree and then suddenly on the nest platform and the other GGO nest which is much more luxuriously furnished A check of the Tengmalm’s nest box resulted in no joy for my trunk scratching but I was able to attach the superzoom to the tripod and lift it up such that I could see through the hole and there were at least two large young in the box. A very thorough search of the area did not reveal any adults or other young that may already have jumped out although mum must have been very close by. We checked just one of the Ural Owls nests. This was the nest where the female flew out when I scratched on 8th April so with an incubation period of about 4 weeks I was ready for the young to already be large enough that mum was no longer in the box. This meant we need to be very careful as to how we approached the area and we walked a large semi circle around the nest box. The female gave away her presence by bill snapping and when we finally saw her perched about 30m from the box she flew away from the box as though trying to draw us away. Just a couple of steps by us towards the box though brought her right back and then she kept a very close eye on us (although we did not go any closer to the box for both our own safety and also her comfort). One thing that was odd was that she seemed to be panting almost all the time. It was only about +13C so was hardly hot and she wasn’t in direct sunlight but she was pumping her throat with her bill open (but not making any audible noises) for minutes on end. The young did not show themselves in the nest opening so are hopefully not ready to leave for 1-2 weeks. Ural Owl (slagugle) A stop to listen for Ortolan resulted in no joy and although it may still be a bit too early it would hardly be a surprise if none returned this year. The last confirmed nesting was my record in 2023 and the last two years have only seen a couple of unpaired singing males, one of which is very likely to have been the male from the 2023 nesting. So, it would be no surprise if these birds are now dead and with no recruitment to this population extinction has been unavoidable. Oslo birding since my last post has continued to be quite uneventful with rain and southerly winds having no noticeable effect. The only highlight was a thirty minute mid afternoon period in Maridalen on the 16th just after it had stopped raining and when the sun came out. This caused a Falsterbo lite experience with 3 Honey Buzzards, 4 Ospreys, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk and 4 Kestrels moving through. Wrynecks seem to be well established though with no a mating paid and two unpaired males and after struggling with Black Woodpecker I now have a nest that is still being excavated and another where two young were being fed at the entrance. At the nest which is still being excavated I saw no splinters being thrown out but could hear one of the adults (I’m quite sure the female) knocking away inside the hole and also on two occasions drumming inside the hole! this Black Woodpecker nest must be at least 4 weeks ahead of the other one I found And an interesting encounter with a Beaver that just swam straight down the white water rapids
Each summer, young explorers arrive at Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary ready to discover the wonders of the Platte River ecosystems. From scooping up insects with sweep nets to daily birding adventures to...
Editor's note: Conservation along the Platte River is a collaborative effort, and Rowe Sanctuary works closely with many partners to work towards our habitat and landscape goals. This month, we...
Nebraska is the home of Arbor Day, established in 1874 to promote tree-planting; an effort that has since spread across the country with great success. It is ironic, then, land managers along...
Ringmærkningen: Vi håber på et vejrskifte snart, så vi kan få lidt fugle i nettet.én fugl på første runde (gærdesanger). Derefter en masse nul-runder. De sidste ture fik vi Stillitser og nogle...
19. maj 2026 kl. 00:00
Ringing: Today I had the pleasure of ringing with Bent, who came to help me out with the number of birds increasing a little bit in the past couple of days. We had to open nets later than standard time...
Ringing: Little tern project: Today was another slow day for the Little Tern project. During today?s observation, four little terns were spotted, none of which landed in the fence. In addition, three...
As migratory birds travel thousands of miles across continents each year, scientists and conservationists are finding new ways to understand where birds go, where they stop, and what habitats they...
Jauh di pedalaman jantung hutan hujan tropis, seorang fotografer satwa liar, seorang ornitolog (ahli burung) dan tiga pemandu adat setempat menyusuri wilayah sang Kasuari Gelambir Tunggal—dalam sebuah misi untuk mengabadikan sosok raksasa hutan Papua yang penuh misteri.
18. maj 2026 kl. 21:31
This spring our Pine Island Sanctuary on the Outer Banks welcomed back nesting Osprey, Purple Martins, Tree Swallows, and more thanks to volunteers who cleared out nest boxes and made the sanctuary...
Birds and People: Challenges and Opportunities of Coexistence. Oluwadunsin Adekola provides an account of his time at BOU2026. The post My First BOU Conference: BOU2026 appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
18. maj 2026 kl. 00:00
Ringing: Little tern project: Today there was another observation for the Little Tern project. It was a relatively warm morning with heavy cloud cover. The observation was pretty quiet.In total I saw...
When I went out to Sandormensvingen (a little bit west of Sandklit) with János and Olga this morning, I expected it just to be a perfectly normal migration count, like I haven?t had one in a while....
18. maj 2026 kl. 00:00
Ringmærkningen : Trejde dag på rundtur. Denne gang med en ny vejleder, Jens Friis-Walsted, samt Silje (antropologistuderende). Stille og rolig morgen, igen nye arter for mig (jubii!). Altid godt at få...
Af Holger Hansen. “Fugle i Ny Natur” (FiNN) er et samarbejde mellem DOF BirdLife, Center for Makroøkologi, Evolution og Klima, Københavns Universitet og Statens...
Fugle i Ny Natur (FiNN) blev introduceret i 2025 og er nu for alvor klar til at ”få ornitologer i felten” for at optælle fuglene. I en nylig artikel på hovedforeningens...
Nattergalen er ankommet, vi fik vores første den 29. april og den høres mange steder. På onsdag den 20. maj, vil vi se om den også er kommet til Sollerup. Vi...
17. maj 2026 kl. 00:00
Today Dylan and Alvin were at the migration count, and János, Olga, and Julian were at the ringing accompanied by Simon. The sea migration was comparably slow today, numberwise. Although some challenging...
Ringmærkningen: Morgenen kunne ikke være mere anerledes fra igår. Vi havde gevinst allerde i første runde, en fin lille munk (Sylvia atricapilla)! Dernæst hr. og fru. jernspurv (Prunella modularis)...
Observations: Ringing: The weather for today looked a bit more promising than the past few days so Xenia and I had our hopes up for a nice morning of ringing. The first few rounds were pretty good...
