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Ed Curry has been farming chile peppers in Arizona’s arid southeastern corner for 54 years. Over decades, he’s kept tabs on local groundwater levels, monitored his wells for declines, and done...
(Salton Sea, Calif.--May 6, 2025) For the first time, water is flowing into the Species Conservation Habitat Project at California’s beleaguered Salton Sea—creating vital refuge for shorebirds...
The end of May is probably the ultimate time to be birding in Oslo although there is never a bad time. The last spring breeding migrants are returning, migrants heading further north or for the mountains are coming through in peak numbers (although without rain they are likely to just fly over at great height) and the chance of rare birds is as high as it gets. The sunny weather we are having is not conducive to unusual birds but some rain is now forecast from Thursday evening onwards so one can hope. The hot weather is causing the water level in Maridalsvannet to keep on falling and it is visibly lower each day. My belief that it was too little too late for waders has thankfully proven to be wrong. Even if I am still to see Greenshank and Whimbrel (which others report) I have seaw (or at least heard) 10 species yesterday which in these parts is defined as a wader bonanza. Temminck’s continue to be seen each day with Sunday’s five rising to six yesterday and falling to three today. Single Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers and Great Snipe were also migrants as were a few Wood Sandpipers but Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Woodcock and Snipe are breeders. The Great Snipe was a displaying bird that I heard on my first nocturnal singer trip of the year. It was a warm, windless night but it is still very early in the season. I did have Great Snipe in mind but the birds I thought were most likely were Nightjar and the begging calls of Tawny and possibly Long-eared Owl. It was marvelous to hear the Great Snipe and also the bleating of a displaying Common Snipe but I’ll have to wait for another trip to hear Nightjars. The only owl I had was a singing Tawny which was the same unmated bird that sang all through the spring. After hearing no begging juvenile owls it was therefore a huge surprise today when in the heat of the afternoon I heard and then saw 3 large young in a nestbox that I would never have expected to be used by Tawnies and in an area where I have frequently stopped but not heard them earlier this year. I will write a post on these a later stage. The muddy edges to the lake will hopefully be good news for the breeding Lapwings in Maridalen which continue to surprise me. Yesterday I saw there two broods of young – one of 4 newly hatched on the field and three larger ones (from the first nest?) on the mud. There were still three birds sitting so I am at a loss as to where the brood of 4 came from and t was an additional pair displaying and which today looked like they may have started egg laying. So six pairs when I originally thought there were only three and that these had all failed due to the plough. My first Icterine Warbler and Rosefinch of the year mean that Marsh Warbler and Red-backed Shrike are the only regular breeders I am waiting for. Temminck's Stint Ringed Plover (sandlo) with the orange legs behind a Little Ringed Plover (dverglo) Lapwings (vipe) in Oslo. 3 young on the left and a single on the right with 3 adults. At the time I assumed it was one brood and another adult that was getting involved for some reason. Another possibility is that there are two separate broods of 3 and 1 but then we would be up to 6 confirmed nests plus another pair which does not seem possible here we the three adults having some sort of argument and the single youngster male Common Rosefinch (rosenfink) singing Icterine Warbler (gulsanger) if a Common Sandpiper (strandsnipe) flies up in front of you when you away from water it may mean there is a nest as was the case today 3 eggs I saw a Great Tit (kjøttmeis) disappear into a crack in this stump and found a nest with young that were at ground level
Background Audubon has collected monthly rainfall data from Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary beginning in November 1959. Corkscrew’s average annual rainfall is 60.0 inches. The hydrologic year is...
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Wings weary after a 2,000-mile journey, but still carrying her typical illustrious air, the matriarch of the Hellgate Valley landed in the escaping evening light. Feathers ruffled, spattered in fish...
Each year, Audubon outlines its priorities for Arizona’s state budget. We, along with our network, advocate for investments, including conservation funding, that will help improve the resilience of...
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The ringing: Not many birds today but a little surprise in first round: The first 1K Song Thrushes "Sangdrossel" were in the nets today! They were the first 1K birds this year that we ringed, it is rather...
Ringmærkningen: Det er storebror Hans, der har fået tjansen med at skrive en del af bloggen, og jeg arbejder hjemmefra lige nu, men det er også fint nok. Lidt billeder fra dagen: Dagens fangst: Trækket...
Ringmærkningen: xxxxxxxx Lidt billeder fra dagen: Kk Kk Kk Dagens fangst: Trækket på Odden: kommer senere!! På stationen til aften: Vagn Lind, Hans Lind, Rowan Wood, Marith...
Genbrugspladsen på Mørupvej i Herning fik i sidste uge indleveret en ældre ægsamling fra et dødsbo. Kommunen valgte at sætte æggene til salg i deres genbrugsbutik...
Af Peter Teglhøj, 3. CES periode afviklede vi d. 18/5 25 i Svendborg. Det blev en fuglefattig omgang med kun 16 fangede fugle, heraf 11 der blev mærket og 5 aflæste...
The enduring value of bird observatories The post A Bird in the Hand appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
Allerede som dreng var Mikkel Østergaard dybt optaget af fugle. I dag hjælper han en ny generation af fuglekiggere på vingerne. Både som naturvejleder og i sit frivillige arbejde som Fugleambassadør.
Morning observation: Today Thomas and I, as always, hoped for an exciting morning observation. While we didn?t get any unusual species, we did see two larger flocks of shelducks ?Gravand? and mergansers...
Ringmærkningen: Det bliver da også bare ringere og ringere for tiden. Mærkningstallet bliver mere end halveret dag for dag på trods af at vejret både var lunt og stille i dag. Lige lidt til den fugtige...
Hejsa folkens. Så gik endnu en dag med vilde oplevelser på Skagen Fuglestation. I dag vågnede jeg op til en morgen, der stod på træk optælling med Cora. Vinden havde endelig lagt sig en smule, så...
Ringmærkningen: Det bliver da også bare ringere og ringere for tiden. Mærkningstallet bliver mere end halveret dag for dag på trods af at vejret både var lunt og stille i dag. Lige lidt til den fugtige...
Af Niels Bomholt Jensen Mødet blev denne gang afholdt i Skærbæk i Sønderjylland over 2 dage fra den 26. april.De vigtigste punkter var godkendelse af årsregnskab...
The days are sunny and hot with temperatures over 20C but a constant northerly wind is not conducive to very much at all. Water levels have fallen a few centimetres at Svellet which should improve conditions as there are still lots of dry mud and the falling water levels should reveal more food rich areas. A visit this morning revealed just 3 Oystercatcher though… The falling water levels in Maridalen have paid dividends though with a flock of 5 Temminck’s Stints. This is the classic time to find them on migration in Oslo but they are far from annual. Can I hope for a Broad-billed Sand? The muddy edges are also good for the Lapwings as they provide much better feeding opportunities than the bone dry fields. They have also created new nesting opportunities and the male of the pair that has been at Kirkeby was performing his nest scraping display this morning with the female watching on. The other three pairs are still sitting (and the fifth pair still may or may not have young). Nest #2 has been occupied since at least 10 April and with an incubation period of around 28 days the young should have hatched over a week ago. I initially thought the nest was abandoned after the ploughing but saw a bird sitting again after a couple of days and then thought that for a couple of days I had just been unlucky to be checking on them at times when the parents were away from the nest. Maybe though the nest was ruined and they relaid very quickly in the same place whereas the other pair chose a new site and waited over a week. As usual time will tell. Temminck's Stint all 5. At the end of the video you also see them with a Greenfinch which shows just how small they are this Hen Harrier (myrhauk) at Årnestangen could have been something even rarer but was an exciting sight. An adult female I believe
Morning observations: Thomas and I were hopeful for some good migrating birds, but it was just the usual species. Even though it was slow, we still had a highlight of the day! We saw two Arctic skua?s...
Ringmærkningen: Ja, ja, - vi fik da 20 fugle ringmærket i dag , men det føltes nu som næsten ingenting efter de to ret gode dage vi har haft fredag og lørdag. Vi tænkte næsten det var efteråret...
This morning started earlier than most. At 3 AM the ringers woke up eager to head out for the first time to an actual ring-able morning in 5 days! But this time, rather than going to Kabeltromelen as per...
Ringmærkningen: Ja, ja, - vi fik da 20 fugle ringmærket i dag , men det føltes nu som næsten ingenting efter de to ret gode dage vi har haft fredag og lørdag. Vi tænkte næsten det var efteråret...
Af Per Rasmussen Vi har tidligere skrevet om LIFE Eurokite-projektet og mærkning af røde glenter med GPS-sendere. Læs mere Mærkning af fynske glenter med GPS-sendere...
Today was another windy day where we couldn?t open nets for ringing again. We went to do observations at world?s end 1 again where it was warmer today than it had been the last few days. Migration...
