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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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About power-lines and bird-rescue
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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
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How are the Schiermonnikoog spoonbills doing?
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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
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Excited about migration
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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
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Migration
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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
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Foreign spoonbills on Schiermonnikoog
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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
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Grenspark Groot Saeftinghe and spoonbills
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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
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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! Read more
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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. Read more
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