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.

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.

While observing the first spoonbills of this season, spoonbill-ringer Harry Horn looks back to the early 1980s when spoonbills gradually discovered all the Wadden Islands and ringing was started there as well.