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21. maj 2026 kl. 20:47
As Audubon California celebrates 30 years as a state office, we’re reflecting on the milestones that shaped our work, the partnerships that made them possible, and the legacy of conservation that...
Maridalsvannet on the morning of 20th May In Oslo it seems as though migration has come to end with rain and southerly winds causing absolutely nothing exciting to turn up. Svellet also still has mud but without there being a single wader reported this morning. Even though the period of quantity of passage birds has passed we are definitely entering the highest quality time and yesterday a stonking male Black-headed Bunting was pulled out of a mist nest in the garden of a twitcher who I had no idea had a ringers licence. Almost all breeding migrants have now turned up with the first Rosefinches, Red-backed Shrikes, Marsh Warblers and Nightjars being reported now even if I have yet to see any of them yet. My focus has now turned to locating breeding birds both for my own benefit and also a busy period of guiding that I have coming up. Hazel Grouse has been a real nightmare this spring. A long walk on 17 May with Mrs OB and The Beast took me past 8 or 9 territories where I have previously had the species but with not a single bird being found. Today I checked 3 territories in another area including “my pair” and did finally pull a bird out of the hat which I feel confident of being able to find again. Three-toed Woodpecker has also been a headache this year so a female that gave herself away tapping on a tree was a relief but she flew off without me being able to track her to a nest. The two pairs of Black Woodpeckers continue to entertain with the one pair still applying the finishing interior design touches to their property and the other pair working hard to fill three noisy mouths with food. In this video you can see the male using over a minute and a half to feed them individually with food he is clearly regurgitating into his bill. the male Black Woodpecker (svartspett) that is still putting the finishing touches to his property and two of the three young in the other nest which is at a far more expected stage Hobby (lerkefalk) today. I have only seen a single bird and heard no calling so do not believe a pair has returned yet Black-throated Divers (storlom) I watched a Wood Warbler (bøksanger) with nesting material in its beak fly onto the ground here. Can you spot the nest? here it is and is of a similar construction to Willow Warbler (løvsanger) and Chiffchaff (gransanger) nests I have previously found On the Lapwing front there are still two birds incubating and seemingly three broods of 4,1 and 1. With the two broods of single young the siblings were lost very early on but the remaining young are now half grown and will hopefully make it. The brood of 4 is a few days younger but the parents have done very well to still have all four alive.
DOF BirdLife har bedt os om at minde om deres fotokonkurrence: DOF BirdLife inviterer alle medlemmer af DOF til at deltage i en ny fotokonkurrence med temaet “Insektædende...
Så er årets første nyhedsbrev fra Projekt Hedehøg udgivet - det kan du læse her....
Jubilæumsfuglen for juni er den farverige sortstrubet bynkefugl - den kan du læse om her. Foto: Aage Matthiesen...
21. maj 2026 kl. 16:42
Depending on your teenage years, the mere mention of superlatives could either bring back fond memories or resurrect deeply buried trauma. Either way, forget about all that—these superlatives are...
It’s a Friday morning at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, and the phone rings at the guest relations desk. Volunteer Phyllis Hall answers, and her calm-yet-authoritative voice coaches the...
21. maj 2026 kl. 15:12
Over the course of five years, 3,525 volunteers spent 234,495 hours counting birds in every corner of the state. That’s the equivalent of nearly 10,000 days of volunteers scouring the state...
21. maj 2026 kl. 00:03
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently released a comprehensive report highlighting actions taken to date to restore the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, along with several policy...
Ringmærkningen: 11 ringmærkninger og 10 aflæsninger. Vi havde kun to nulrunder, så vi var fint beskæftiget. Vi havde fornøjelsen af en ung han lille fluesnapper (Ficedula parva), samt en han og to...
Ringmærkningen: Xxxxx Trækket på Odden: Der kom flere hundrede Mørkbugede Knortegæs (Branta bernicla bernicla) i morgenens træk. De små mørke gæs med hvide rumper er nogle af de sidste i forårstrækket...
Ringing: The weather let me open the nets this morning and I was expecting quite a few birds after the rainy days, but the ringing session turned out quite slow. A few nice species still, and luckily...
20. maj 2026 kl. 10:01
The end of South Litchfield Beach is a sprawling spit of sand, where tides and waves combine to create a wide beach that is popular with people and nesting birds. So Robert...
Af Børge Langkilde Rasmussen. En solrig søndags forårsmorgen oprandt, som sædvanligt havde man nær sagt, når det gælder Forårsmarked på Sanderumgaard, og...
The Salt and Gila Rivers flow through central Arizona, providing water supplies to communities, Tribes, agriculture, and industry –and connecting people to nature. This river corridor also...
János, Julian and I were at the ringing today. We were expecting a good number of birds for this morning, but it ended up being quite slow. In most of the rounds we only ringed one bird and had a total...
Ringmærkningen : Sikke en begivenhedsrig morgen! Jens trak en høgesanger (Curruca nisoria) ud i anden runde (sammen med en rødrygget tornskade (Lanius cullorio), som jeg kunne have fornøjelsen af)!...
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...
