by Femke van den Berg/ on 08 Jul 2024 Measures against wire victims In addition to scientific research, the working group also tries to protect the spoonbills and little egrets themselves as much as possible, as well as their habitat. One of the causes of death in spoonbills is caused by collisions with power lines, especially the top two wires, which are the thinnest and therefore least visible. Read more...
by Kees Vliet Vlieland/ on 08 Jul 2024 Report of a day of spoonbill ringing in the delta June 7 was one of the days that we went ringing the delta spoonbills this year. At two different locations even. Left Middelburg early, first picked up two people in Goes and then someone at the carpool place near Yerseke. Read more...
by Petra de Goeij/ on 17 Apr 2024 Two somewhat older spoonbills seen together by Keimpe Bleeker It happens quite often that we see older spoonbills in the same place as the years before, before or during or after the breeding season. Keimpe Bleeker from Friesland saw two such old acquaintances together for the first time in northern Friesland on April 10.
by Tamar Lok/ on 11 Apr 2024 Spoonbill pairs have a strict division of parental tasks In a recently published article, we show that the agenda of a female spoonbill during the breeding season looks very different from that of her partner, both in time and space. Read here about our most interesting findings and a link to the original article.
by Wouter Vansteelant/ on 20 Mar 2024 Spoonbills hunted by White-tailed Eagle On March 19, Wouter Vansteelant made a sighting of some spoonbills being hunted by a White-tailed Eagle. Here you can read what happened.
by Mark Hoekstein/ on 21 Feb 2024 Spoonbills all year round in the Dutch Delta area Nowadays it is possible to see spoonbills in the Delta area in every month of the year. That was quite different in the past. In the late 1980s, the population of spoonbills in the Netherlands was still recovering from the major blow inflicted by pesticides in the aquatic environment. Read more...
