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The Yuma Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus yumanensis), a subspecies of the Ridgway's Rail, is a brown marsh bird about the size of a chicken. It is typically secretive and rarely seen, most usually...
10. dec. 2025 kl. 00:41
It is dry, but it has been drier. Audubon’s conservation team has been tracking rainfall and water-level data at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for 60 years and reports that we received slightly more...
9. dec. 2025 kl. 23:00
Have you been lucky enough to witness the goofiness of the Reddish Egret? The way they dance around in shallow water with their wings partially outstretched, a tactic to catch fish known as canopy...
It continues to be grey and virtually birdless – surely the least exciting bird winter in Oslo in the nearly 25 years I have lived here. An appointment down town this morning allowed me to check out what urban birds there might be around the Opera. I failed to find the Peregrines on their normal perch on the Posten building so any excitement was going to be on the gull front which as regular readers know is not a family of birds that I normally find that exciting but rather frustrating. In addition me looking at gulls is a sign of complete desperation! There was a large gang of mostly 1st winter Herring Gulls hanging around waiting to be fed. This autumn there has been a lot of social media focus on weak Guillemots on the fjord which has resulted in a campaign to feed them with fish and especially by the Opera where many Guillemots wait offshore to be fed. This source of easy food has of course been discovered by the smart and opportunistic local Herring Gulls and this has now resulted in them being fed on an industrial scale away from the Guillemots so as to allow the Guillemots to feed successfully and in peace. Personally, I am no fan of this artificial feeding as the young gulls are missing out on how to discover their own food (it was quite striking how relatively few adults birds were there) and there is plenty of natural food (starfish) at the moment. I could find no white wingers or Caspian or even Caspian look-a-likes amongst the lazy gulls but there were two 1cy Herring with very creamy colours of the type that suggests a hybrid with Glaucous Gull. One of these was ringed and proved to have hatched in a nearby colony and with no reports of Glaucous Gulls this, or any previous, summer this (and a number of previously similar and locally bred birds) shows that these are pale colour forms and within the variation of Herring Gulls rather than hybrids. A Lesser Black-backed Gull was perhaps the highlight. Wintering birds in Norway are rare and less than annual in Oslo and are normally young birds. This one had a black back and had previously been suggested to be a fuscus (Baltic Gull) which is also a very rare subspecies in the south of the country. Although the bird had a surprisingly little amount of streaking on the head I could see nothing else to suggest fuscus with there being an obvious contrast between black outer primaries and otherwise dark grey wings. There were a few browner feathers in the wings especially the median primary coverts which I initially took to be a sign of immaturity but the outermost primary (P10) was also brown but was clearly an adult feather due to its large mirror so these browner feathers must be older unmoulted feathers. The tail was also completely white and the bill had no dark smudges that it has before full adulthood. a very pale 1cy Herring Gull (gråmåke) that some may suggest is a hybrid with Glaucous Gull (polarmåke). Compare it to normally plumaged bird to its left. This bird was ringed as a nestling in a nearby colony and similar ringed birds in previous years seem to prove that these birds are just within the variation of Herring Gulls and another similar but unringed bird and an example of a very dark Herring Gull the adult Lesser Black-backed Gull (sildemåke) in front of the Munch Museum note that P10 is old an unmoulted, P9 has just been dropped and a new feather is growing out. The brown medium primary coverts and some secondaries are also unmoulted feathers contrasting with new, moulted, feathers the wings are much too grey to be fuscus note that the moult is symmetric in the left and right wings with the new P9 equally long and a brute of a young Great Black-backed Gull (svartbak)
Den 31. marts 2025 blev en ung Havørn fundet død på en mark i nærheden af Rudkøbing. Den blev sendt til Statens Serum Institut, og dødsårsagen er nu klarlagt....
En ung havørn er død på en kornmark nær Rudkøbing på Langeland efter at have ædt kød, der indeholdt insektgiften carbofuran, der siden 2008 har været ulovlig at bruge og besidde i EU. DOF BirdLife har anmeldt giftdrabet til Fyns Politi.
Godaften kære bloglæsere, her følger en beretning for dagen. Jeg havde pakket tasken og madpakken i god tid og startede dagen ud med æg og kaffe. Det er jo altid skønt. Derefter tog jeg med pænt...
8. dec. 2025 kl. 14:04
Af Bo Johansen. I forbindelse med min nyligt afholdte 70-års fødselsdag modtog jeg to helt særlige og nostalgiske fotografier fra Christian Leth. Billederne...
White wing patch size predicts assortative mating in Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus) The post Do wing patches predict assortative mating? appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
Hej allesammen, som sagt ankom jeg et par dage siden for at forsøge at få birdet lidt her i min læseferie. Desværre har vejret ikke været med mig og idag var ikke en undtagelse. Tidligt om morgenen...
Trækket på Odden: Endnu en morgen med et stort antal Viber (Vanellus vanellus) ude over havet i flere tilløb til træk, men forgæves. Vi så hele formiddagen omkring 1.200 rastløse Viber over markerne...
Today is the last day at the station for the fall crew (though Jonas will be here for a few days), so the feeling is bittersweet. We have had such a wonderful time here, so it is hard to leave. This morning...
Trækket på Odden: Søndagens største begivenhed i tælleriet var omkring 1.500 Viber (Vanellus vanellus), som flere gange var ude at vende over havet, men endte med at opgive at trække. Viber regnes...
Lørdag den 8. november afholdt Ørneklubben - DOF Fyn tur til Vejlen - Tåsinge. Til dagens tur mødte 26 børn og 18 voksne op, foruden vi 4 turledere. Poul V....
Mange har stor fornøjelse af at fodre fugle, men en del steder kan det være problematisk i forhold til specielt rotter og mus. Til årets ornitologiske oplevelser...
Trækket på Odden: Dagens to højdepunkter er ligetil: Vi oplevede 29 Suler (Morus bassanus) på træk forbi hele Nordens sydligste punkt, og vi fik god hjælp af en ny fuglenørd. Mathias Daniel Holm...
This morning was VERY grey but most importantly, rainless and so János, Florian and I were keen to venture out along the beach and towards World?s End 3. We did some very relaxed seawatching for a couple...
5. dec. 2025 kl. 06:48
Colorado’s waters form a living network—from alpine headwaters to desert seeps to prairie sloughs to floodplain wetlands—the arteries of our state’s ecology, economy, and communities. But...
(December 3, 2025) - The National Fish and Wildlife Service announced nearly $12 million in grants from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund (Futures Fund) to organizations and local governments to...
Norske elvedeltaer er blant våre mest produktive og artsrike naturområder, likevel forsvinner de bit for bit. Gjennom flere tiår har utbygginger, utfyllinger og tekniske inngrep ført til et omfattende tap av livsviktige levesteder for fugl, fisk og annet naturmangfold. Nå må Klima- og miljøminister Andreas Bjelland Eriksen på banen!
5. dec. 2025 kl. 01:00
BirdLife Norge har påklaget vedtaket om å tillate ny utplanting av sitkagran og sibirsk lerk på Dønna i Nordland. I tiåret for naturrestauering er det et stort paradoks at myndighetene våre tillater nyplanting av fremmede arter i området, som burde vært restaurert for å ta vare på naturen.
The weather was rather grey again, but since it was dry, Amira, János and I went for a walk to Grenen this morning. Shortly after arriving at World's End 3, we saw a large diver flying towards us. When...
Trækket på Gedser Odde: Vinden var gået lidt mere i SØ,hvilket betyder næsten vinkelret på kysten. Derfor havde vi en forhåbning om, at nogle flere fugle ville komme tættere på land end de foregående...
external article to point to AAB species guide Vesper Sparrow account.
External article pointing to species guide account for Swamp Sparrow.
