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...
by Carl Zuhorn/ on 12 Jan 2024 How did spoonbill Sinagote do? Spoonbill Sinagote, which received its YfLY/aLY color rings on Vlieland in the Oude Huizenvallei in 2006 and a UVA bit transmitter on Schiermonnikoog in 2013, has “disappeared from the radar”. She bred in various colonies on Vlieland from 2014 to 2022: from 2014 to 2016 in the Oude Huizenvallei and from 2017 to 2022 in De Cranberryvallei. Read more...
by Petra de Goeij/ on 12 Jan 2024 The adventures of tracked spoonbills In 2023, the Spoonbill Working Group, in collaboration with the University of Groningen BirdEyes, local nature conservation organizations and the crews of the Asterias and Harder, provided 671 spoonbill chicks with a color ring. Read more...
by Harry Horn/ on 23 Nov 2023 About power-lines and bird-rescue Recently, the Spoonbill Working Group received a question about the possibility of equipping a spoonbill, about to be released after a period of care in a bird rescue center, with a unique color ring combination. Read more...
