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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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Measures against wire victims
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In addition to scientific research, the working group also tries to protect the spoonbills and little egrets themselves as much as possible, as well as their habitat. One of the causes of death in spoonbills is caused by collisions with power lines, especially the top two wires, which are the thinnest and therefore least visible. Read more
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Two somewhat older spoonbills seen together by Keimpe Bleeker
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It happens quite often that we see older spoonbills in the same place as the years before, before or during or after the breeding season. Keimpe Bleeker from Friesland saw two such old acquaintances together for the first time in northern Friesland on April 10. Read more
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Spoonbill pairs have a strict division of parental tasks
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In a recently published article, we show that the agenda of a female spoonbill during the breeding season looks very different from that of her partner, both in time and space. Read here about our most interesting findings and a link to the original article. Read more
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