by Petra de Goeij/ on 07 Nov 2024 Pucci, an enterprising young spoonbill looking for a future nesting site The 2024 breeding season of spoonbills on Schiermonnikoog has miraculously gone reasonably well. After an elevated tide on the night of April 19-20, which caused most spoonbills to lose their nests, fortunately many restarted, along with spoonbills that arrived later from their wintering grounds. Read more...
by Petra de Goeij, Marycha Franken and Carl Zuhorn/ on 07 Nov 2024 Spoonbill survey on Vlieland 2024 Every year, around 240 spoonbills breed on Vlieland, spread across several colonies. This spring was exciting for the spoonbills. When the first spoonbills arrived, it was so incredibly wet that part of the former breeding colonies were still under water. Read more...
by Harry Horn/ on 07 Nov 2024 Some Spoonbill experiences on an uninhabited island! Like last year, I had the opportunity to spend a week on the island of Griend as a bird watcher. This year in the second week of July. Griend is an uninhabited island located in the Wadden Sea between Terschelling and Harlingen and this island has been managed for more than a hundred years as a natural monument by the association Natuurmonumenten. Read more...
by Werkgroep Lepelaar/ on 10 Oct 2024 werkgroeplepelaar.org and -.nl Due to circumstances, the domain name werkgroeplepelaar.nl has expired. It was our plan to reclaim that name, but another party beat us to it. They are using AI to create a site with some of our original content and some of our other messages. Read more...
by Petra de Goeij (*)/ on 02 Oct 2024 Annual report 2023 In 2023, the Spoonbill Working Group ringed 657 spoonbills and read 14590 spoonbills. Here you can read our annual report 2023.
by Theunis Piersma/ on 09 Jul 2024 About saxophones and spoonbill trachea In 1840, the ambitious and then 26-year-old Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax developed a wind instrument that should incorporate all the good qualities of classical musical instruments. That first “saxophone” was a very large one, a bass saxophone with a very deep sound. Read more...
