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PRUNUS, een ondernemende Lepelaar
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13 mei-8 juni Op 13 mei is Prunus, een volwassen lepelaarvrouw, geringd en gezenderd op Vlieland. Haar naam heeft ze te danken aan de Prunus-struik waar ze haar nest in had. Jammer genoeg verliet Prunus op 31 mei de kolonie nadat het een paar dagen lang vreselijk slecht weer was geweest in het Waddengebied. Waarschijnlijk…
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Wat eet Nala met de Kerst?
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Lepelaar Nala kreeg als bijna-vliegvlug kuiken, op 30 juni 2025 op Schiermonnikoog een zender. Ze is daardoor te volgen op www.globalflywaynetwork.org (bekijk de data van de voorbije maand want door het weinige zonlicht geeft de zender hier ’s winters minder vaak gegevens door). Nala is nog steeds op Schiermonnikoog en lijkt er deze winter te…
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Zenderonderzoek in Zeeland
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Enige tijd geleden verscheen bij Omroep Zeeland een mooi artikel over een bijzonder project waarbij drie jonge Zeeuwse lepelaars – Sven, Jonas en Isa – zijn uitgerust met een zender. Doel van het project is om hun vliegbewegingen in kaart te brengen, zodat beter onderzocht kan worden hoe risico’s zoals windturbines en hoogspanningsleidingen vermeden kunnen…
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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
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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.
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How did spoonbill Sinagote do?
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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.
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The adventures of tracked spoonbills
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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.
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Life story of my adopted spoonbill BBAN (2001-2022)
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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.
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An orange spoonbill!?
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Mariette Haagsma took these beautiful photos of an orange spoonbill at the Balgzandpolder bird observation screen on July 29th, 2023. Is it a different color variety? Is it due to iron-rich water? Could eating shrimps lead to such beautiful pink-orange spoonbills? We have no idea!
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How's Sinagote?
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Despite concerns among the Staatsbosbeheer nature managers on Vlieland, as was broadcasted by Omrop Fryslan, we still have hope that Sinagote will return.
