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Wintering spoonbills on Schouwen-Duiveland 2024 and transmitter spoonbill Carex
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By now it is no longer as conspicuous as it used to be, spoonbills in the Netherlands during the winter months. Nowadays, especially in the Delta area, there are places where groups of sometimes 50-70 birds can still be found at this time of year. For the most part, these are 1st year birds that may not have been fit enough to Read more
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Spoonbills at the Banc d' Arguin, balsaci or leucorodia?
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In December 2024 there was another visit to the Banc d’Arguin in Mauritania. Mohamed Camara, Bob Loos, Theunis Piersma and Petra de Goeij visited the islands of Arel and Nair and counted the spoonbills and read color rings. Read more
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Diving into spoonbill mortality: where and why…
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As part of the project Waakvogels, 27 juvenile and 7 adult spoonbills in have been equipped with a GPS-tracker during the past breeding season in different Wadden Sea colonies. In addition, in collaboration with Lowland Ecology Network, two adult spoonbills were GPS-tagged in the colony at the Bataviahaven near Lelystad. Read more
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Pucci, an enterprising young spoonbill looking for a future nesting site
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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
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Spoonbill survey on Vlieland 2024
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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
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Some Spoonbill experiences on an uninhabited island!
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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
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werkgroeplepelaar.org and -.nl
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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
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Annual report 2023
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In 2023, the Spoonbill Working Group ringed 657 spoonbills and read 14590 spoonbills. Here you can read our annual report 2023. Read more
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About saxophones and spoonbill trachea
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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
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Report of a day of spoonbill ringing in the delta
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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
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