by Harry Horn/ on 23 Nov 2023 Life story of my adopted spoonbill BBAN (2001-2022) Within the Spoonbill Working Group, it is possible to adopt one or more favorite spoonbills for a small fee. As long as this bird is observed, you will receive an overview of the life history of these adopted birds once a year. Read more...
by Petra de Goeij/ on 15 Nov 2023 How are the Schiermonnikoog spoonbills doing? It has been a strange autumn as far as spoonbill migration is concerned. They stayed on Schiermonnikoog for a very long time, especially at the high-water refuges near the 1st and 4th mudflats, the Willemsduin and near the Reef. Read more...
by Theunis Piersma/ on 17 Oct 2023 Excited about migration Loud knocking on the door of the farm house on the Marais d’Orx, a lake near Bayonne in southwest France. Paul comes to warn us. It has stopped raining, the heavy clouds of that day have broken up and, unexpectedly, hundreds of spoonbills enter the airspace above the Maraix d’Orx, sometimes beautifully illuminated by the afternoon sun. Read more...
by Femke van den Berg/ on 09 Oct 2023 Migration The spoonbill migration is in full swing. On September 28, Kai (NDUP) makes a stopover in the Baarzandse Kreek near Breskens and then flies to Nolon, northeast of Rochefort. On October 8, Sven searches for and finds 4 transmitter spoonbills, Bob (YfaB/BLG), Amie (NfYp/aYR), Zilver (YfGR/RLa) and BWL7, in Stellendam, Haringvliet. Read more...
by Petra de Goeij/ on 24 Sep 2023 Foreign spoonbills on Schiermonnikoog Every year, spoonbills are color-ringed on Schiermonnikoog. The chicks that can almost fly are given a ring with their own color code. That means we can recognize them all individually. In the past, the chicks were given colored rings, but in recent years they have been given a white ring with letters and numbers on it. Read more...
by Kees Vliet Vlieland/ on 04 Sep 2023 Grenspark Groot Saeftinghe and spoonbills After many years of wrangling and procedures, the first water flowed into the Hedwige and Prosperpolder on October 25, 2022. To this end, a new sea-retaining dike has been constructed and the surrounding dikes have been lowered. Read more...
