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The standard ringing today really taught us a lot about how much birds depend on the right weather conditions for migration ? especially small birds: while we had many willow warblers (løvsanger) the...
Did you know, that SKAF stands for Sleep Kisses you After Fieldwork? To be fair ? and not make fun of you, the intellectual blog reader ? this is not the real definition. Some rumors even say, it simply...
13. aug. 2026 kl. 23:42
I do still look at birds honestly but have not really had much to write about recently. And even though I have not been looking at butterflies this post will once again be about one - the same one - that has featured in my last two posts. I did write that I hoped that I would be writing a further post on the skipper I photographed at Fornebu and here is that post although it is not how I hoped it would be. As I said I would I have gone through pictures of Essex Skippers in the Norwegian and Swedish national reporting systems. I found none with orange antenna tips in the Norwegian database (which didn’t have very many pictures) but in the Swedish one it was quite easy. Unless they are misidentified Small Skippers which seems very unlikely then it is clear that THE feature which is stated in the literature as the way to separate the two species is far from as absolute as it is stated to be. This was further confirmed today when I spoke with PK Slagsvold from the Oslo Natural History Museum who along with Reidar Voith had gone through the museums collection of Essex and Small Skippers. Their conclusion is that orange and black antenna tips can be found on both species and that only males can be safely identified using the shape of the black sex brand on the upper forewing. For females their conclusion is that there are no reliable consistent differences other than genitalia although this of course is not a field character. This doesn’t mean I didn’t unwittingly take a photo of Norway’s first Small Skipper but it seems extremely unlikely and as it is now clearly within the normal variation of Essex Skipper then that it was it is unless proven otherwise which means a specimen and either Dna or genitalia check. So we now have a few questions: how has the antenna tips colour become used as such an absolute character to separate the two species? where both species occur does this mean that there are lots of misidentifications especially of females. do we need publish an article to correct what appears to be a glaring mistake in the established literature? Here are three Essex Skippers from Sweden this year showing orange antenna tips. After finding these so quickly I stopped searching for more: This female is very similar to my one https://artportalen.se/image/6783618 A male I believe https://artportalen.se/image/6836646 And another female https://artportalen.se/image/6782465
For generations, Indigenous groups residing in coastal areas have harvested seagrass for various purposes, including food, medicine, and construction. For example, members of the Kwakwaka’wakw...
13. aug. 2026 kl. 16:29
By WildMon, August 2026Across Latin America, thousands of autonomous recording devices are capturing the sounds of forests every day. Hidden within these recordings is valuable information about...
13. aug. 2026 kl. 16:29
By WildMon, August 2026Across Latin America, thousands of autonomous recording devices are capturing the sounds of forests every day. Hidden within these recordings is valuable information about...
13. aug. 2026 kl. 11:12
Et par topskarver på den fredede øgruppe Hirsholmene i Kattegat har fostret to unger i år. Skarvens nære slægtning har aldrig før ynglet i Danmark.
13. aug. 2026 kl. 08:44
Få konkrete idéer til formidling om fugle i børnehøjde, felttur med Morten DD og masser af sparring og netværk med gode kolleger på vores workshop, der er gratis for både nuværende Fugleambassadører og for dem, der er interesseret i at blive det.
En norsk studie viser at de to største lommene, gulnebblom og islom, har forskjellig diett i vinterhalvåret, selv om de har overlappende overvintringsområder langs norskekysten. Begge artene lever hovedsakelig av fisk, men analyser av mageinnhold og feltobservasjoner av fødesøk avslører at de i stor grad fanger ulike byttedyr.
Ringmærkningen: Today the ringing started almost as busy as yesterday but slowed down considerably after the first two net checks. We caught a total of 59 new birds during the standard ringing, then opened...
Ringmærkningen: Xxxxx Trækket på Odden: En smuk dag med en flot solopgang efter tirsdag aftens solformørkelse. Luften blev hurtigt lun, og vi havde samme svage vind som dagen før, men nu fra sydøst....
12. aug. 2026 kl. 22:39
Back in 2025, wildlife biologist Kylie Brunette was going through footage from camera traps she’d placed in front of woodcock nests in the forests of West Virginia when something shocking caught...
12. aug. 2026 kl. 16:26
Missourians delivered a powerful endorsement of conservation this month, voting overwhelmingly to renew the Parks, Soils and Water Sales Tax with an unofficial 82% approval. The voters showed...
12. aug. 2026 kl. 02:00
Et nasjonalt mål om arealnøytralitet er et viktig skritt mot en mer naturvennlig arealforvaltning. BirdLife Norge har sammen med andre miljøorganisasjoner arbeidet for dette i en årrekke. Nå må utredningen følges av konkrete grep – ikke bli en sovepute.
12. aug. 2026 kl. 02:00
Regjeringen vil ha mer kraft, raskere. Men hva skjer når det går for fort for naturen? Kortere behandlingstid, enklere konsekvensutredninger og færre innsigelsesmuligheter vil svekke både kunnskapsgrunnlaget og naturhensynene. BirdLife Norge ser nå at vindkraft planlegges i områder med internasjonal verneverdi.
This morning I woke up after sleeping through the whole night. Sadly there was no nigtcatching success tonight. But so we could get some good sleep for the day. I started my day with opening the nets at...
The day started with the northwesterlies weakening, giving more favourable conditions for the observation. The wind got almost completely calm in midday, and until sunset. Almost clear skies and soft temperatures...
Ringmærkning: Trækket på Odden: Dagens træktælling foregik i dejlig solrigt og vindstille vejr med Ole, Mads, Orla og Lise som dagens hold. Fuglene dukkede op i større antal end i går, hvor især...
Ringmærkning: Trækket på Odden: Dagens træktælling foregik i dejlig solrigt og vindstille vejr med Ole, Mads, Orla og Lise som dagens hold. Fuglene dukkede op i større antal end i går, hvor især...
11. aug. 2026 kl. 21:15
When my grandma speaks, I hang onto her words with a burning curiosity. Her voice, thick with a lilting twang that could only come from a tried-and-true Oklahoman, wraps around my earliest memories...
11. aug. 2026 kl. 19:23
For seven weeks this June and July, a crew of curious campers explored Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary’s boardwalk and beyond. 69 local youth, aged 6-16, laughed, learned, and formed lifelong connections...
Vi er godt fornøyde med 70 deltakere på årets første runde. Hele 56 deltakere svarte riktig på begge nøtter! Her kommer andre runde, og med hjelp av fuglelitteratur og bildestudier på nett er det kanskje mange som svarer rett på disse to nøttene også?
11. aug. 2026 kl. 00:00
Slowly, the first glimmers of sunlight could be seen over Grenen. By this point, Moritz and Simon had already opened all the nets and were setting off on their first round deep into the tangle of Kabeltrommelnkrattet....
Observation: Ringing: Strong winds meant that, for the second day in a row, we had to abandon any hope of obtaining standardized ringing in the morning. Instead, we tried for some nightcatching,...
