tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40418047369385611692024-02-07T21:53:04.579-08:00Marc Illa's blogMarc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-78117260475862228452019-01-22T13:11:00.005-08:002019-01-22T13:11:53.061-08:00Back to the blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Certainly, the blog has been a bit abandoned for some time. I'll do my best to bring it back to life, or at least a bit more often than what it has been for the last year....</div>
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So, to start with again, some things from the last few days.</div>
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As I've been doing for the last five winters, the Reed Bunting <i>(Emberiza schoeniclus) </i>roosting project is still alive. Time has given a lot of perspective to the results, that start indicating some things.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) males are starting to look really handsome!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Number of captures by age/sex and date, comparing the winters of 2017/18 and 2018/19.<br />The bottom chart is intentionally moved to the right, to 'make it fit' at the same timeline.<br />Note that I don't have data of October for the current winter, and that I stopped going to<br />the site on 2017/18 because of very few wintering birds!</td></tr>
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One interesting thing to look at is the difference in sex-ratio. Just comparing this season with the previous one, this year it has definitely many more males than the previous. Last winter (2017/18) was very poor with wintering individuals in the area, but there were some very good days of migration (mostly females). This season, I have no data from October, but when I started in November the proportion of males was already higher than the previous year, and it has kept like this so far. Note that even some days males were more common than females! The reason? I don't know for sure.</div>
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This year has provided 5 foreign recoveries so far: 3 from France, 1 from Sweden and 1 from Switzerland (the latter is currently wintering at one of the sites). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A first-year (EURING 3) female from Sweden, caught during<br />December. Sadly not a Falsterbo bird, but still it will be quite<br />exciting to know where it comes from - Sweden is so large!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another first-winter (EURING 3/5) female, this one from<br />Switzerland. The first recovery from this country on this project!</td></tr>
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But maybe, the best bird so far has been this first-winter, which is a truly rare case of 3 outer greater coverts unmoulted!</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-28632771538143811282017-12-20T13:56:00.000-08:002017-12-20T13:56:02.996-08:00Tales from a (too) busy summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has been a very busy summer, indeed. So busy that I have ended up writing this blogpost in December...</div>
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CES ringing (<a href="http://apps.ornitologia.org/anella/sylvia" target="_blank">SYLVIA project</a>) has revealed a quite good breeding season for many species. Early and abundant spring rainfall provided a food for many passerine species and no strong rain episodes occurred during the main incubation period, which is usually a potential cause for breeding failure. By mid-May some of the early species had already chicks in regular numbers, and June is the best time for all the species, with fledgings from the latest breeding species and, usually, second broods of the sedentary fellows.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile (EURING 3) <b>Melodious Warbler </b><i>(Hippolais <br />polyglotta)</i>. They arrive quite late, mostly during May, chicks<br />are mostly flying by mid-July, and they migrate very fast,<br />leaving the breeding grounds mostly during August.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile (EURING 3) <b>Western Bonelli's Warbler </b><i>(Phylloscopus<br />bonelli)</i>. They arrive slightly earlier, mostly during April, and<br />chicks are flying between late June and early July. They also leave<br />the breeding grounds between August and September.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breeding <b>Common Nightingales </b><i>(Luscinia megarhynchos) </i>start <br />the postnuptial complete moult shortly after chicks fledge. <br />The moult is also quite quick, with several primaries<br />dropped at the same time. They will leave the breeding grounds<br />also during August and early September and they have to be<br /> ready for that!</td></tr>
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Some especial species caught during the CES ringing sessions were this juvenile <b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker </b><i>(Dendrocopos minor) </i>and this adult <b>Turtle Dove </b><i>(Streptopelia turtur) </i>at La Corbatera, a riparian forest station, and two juvenile <b>Rock Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza cia) </i>caught at Montserrat, a Mediterranean pine tree succession community.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile <b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker </b><i>(Dendrocpos minor)</i>.<br />I had never seen one with this greenish tinge on the face and<br />underparts!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile (EURING 3) <b>Rock Bunting </b><i>(Emberiza cia)</i>.</td></tr>
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At my main ringing station, <i>L'Aiguamoll de la Bòbila</i>, it was very nice to recover the breeding of <b>Great Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus arundinaceus). </i>Last year, since the wetland was dry during the whole spring and summer, there was only a brief sighting of a singing male after some little rain in June; but they never bred. This year, interestingly, two breeding pairs succeeded! Thanks to the ringing activities, both males and one of the females were already ringed from 2014 and 2015, which is quite interesting, since only one of these birds came last year, but they have all returned and succeeded this season!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A returning breeding female <b>Great Reed Warbler</b> from 2015!</td></tr>
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Some interesting birds were caught in my main ringing station, <i>L'Aiguamoll de la Bòbila</i>, where I have already ringed more than 1000 birds this year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile (EURING 3) <b>Wryneck </b><i>(Jynx torquilla)</i>. Interestingly,<br />this species is not breeding in the area, so this juvenile in mostly<br />juvenile plumage caught in mid-July was clearly on juvenile<br />dispersion. As you can see, it's in the middle of the typical<br />woodpecker postjuvenile moult involving primaries.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To compare with the previous one, this breeding individual<br />from the SYLVIA station in <i>La Corbatera</i> was also on primary<br />moult in mid-July. It was aged as a 2cy (EURING 5) on the<br />pattern of the unmoulted primary coverts in the previous moult.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talking about woodpeckers, this year we also had a breeding<br />pair of <b>Green Woodpeckers </b><i>(Picus viridis) </i>at <i>La Bòbila</i>,<br />and this was the female. Aged as an adult (EURING 6) due to<br />the all moulted wing except some central primary coverts,<br />which seemingly happens regularly in adults of this species.</td></tr>
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Working on the mountains with alpine species is always a delight, especially during the hot summer, when it's always very refreshing to be up there. One more year, we worked with breeding <b>Northern Wheatears </b><i>(Oenanthe oenanthe) </i>in the same two areas we have been surveying in the past. Finally, we have started using colour rings with this birds, which will allow us to keep a better track of the returning individuals - which so far have been very few! Seemingly they do not return to the exact same breeding spots every season, so it's quite hard to detect them again when the habitat is so extensive.<br />
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Surprises are always welcome, as this cracking male <b>Rock Thrush </b><i>(Monticola saxatilis)</i>!</div>
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It was also about wheatears when we went to some areas in the central part of Catalunya to target <b>Black-eared Wheatears </b><i>(Oenanthe hispanica)</i>, in collaboration with Reto Burri and José Luis Copete. The wheatears themselves are very nice birds!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Black-eared Wheatear </b>in its typical open habitat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) male, black-throated morph.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) male, white-throated morph.</td></tr>
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But it was also a good opportunity to get experience with other typical species on this open habitats.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Tawny Pipit </b><i>(Anthus campestris).</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Woodchat Shrike </b><i>(Lanius senator).</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Western Orphean Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia hortensis).</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ortolan Bunting </b><i>(Emberiza hortulana)</i>.</td></tr>
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An intense summer, with a lot of ringing, a lot of interesting data gathered and picture documentation... but too few time to put everything in order!!</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-86878998175819372032017-10-15T11:55:00.000-07:002017-12-15T11:55:50.484-08:00Wings over Falsterbo!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Millions, literally, of migratory birds fly over the Falsterbo peninsula every autumn. Its geographic position fits in what could be defined as a migration 'bottleneck', that Scandinavian birds use to shorten the sea-crossing from the southernmost parts of Sweden to Denmark or Poland, crossing the Baltic Sea. For anyone with a little passion for birds, a good day at Falsterbo is a truly astonishing experience.<br />
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The video above is representative of some minutes on a rather 'normal' September day at Falsterbo. It was recorded this last 16th of September, and you may recognize several passerines calling while actively migrating.<br />
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At the very start of the season, by late July, <i>Acrocephalus </i>species are already on the move, especially Sedge Warblers <i>(A.schoenobaenus) </i>but also the first migrant Reed Warblers <i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus). </i>As soon as August starts more and more species finishes their moults (if they have any) and start their journeys south. As shown above, passerines migration reaches amazing numbers though August and September, when they are mainly <b>Tree Pipits </b><i>(Anthus trivialis)</i>, <b>Yellow Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla flava)</i>, <b>White Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla alba)</i>, <b>Barn Swallows </b><i>(Hirundo rustica), </i><b>Sand Martins </b><i>(Riparia riparia) </i>and many other species. During September, <b>Meadow Pipits </b><i>(Anthus pratensis) </i>will start dominating and finches will take over too, <b>Song Thrushes </b><i>(Turdus philomelos), </i><b>Dunnocks </b><i>(Prunella modularis), </i><b>Goldcrests </b><i>(Regulus regulus), </i><b>Blue Tits </b><i>(Cyanistes caeruleus) </i>and with hundreds and hundreds of <b>Chaffinches </b><i>(Fringilla coelebs)</i>, <b>Bramblings </b><i>(Fringilla montifringilla)</i>, <b>Siskins </b><i>(Carduelis spinus) </i>and other species like <b>Reed Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza schoeniclus) </i>move on on daytime.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chaffinch </b><i>(Fringilla coelebs) </i>and <b>Woodlark </b><i>(Lululla arborea)</i>. </td></tr>
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Irruptive species are every year, the biggest change. This year it was a very good season for <b>Crossbills </b><i>(Loxia curvirostra)</i>, also some <b>Two-barred </b><i>(Loxia leucoptera) </i>on the beggining of the season and very good numbers of <b>Parrot </b><i>(Loxia pytyopsittacus) </i>during October!<div>
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Raptors are also a big attraction to Falsterbo. Big numbers of <b>Honey Buzzards </b><i>(Pernis apivorus) </i>can be seen during August, and then they are replaced by thousands of <b>Common Buzzards </b><i>(Buteo buteo) </i>during September and October. <b>Red Kites </b><i>(Milvus milvus) </i>are common migrants too, such as <b>Marsh Harriers </b><i>(Circus aeruginosus), </i>but <b>Hen </b><i>(Circus cyaneus), </i><b>Montagu's </b><i>(Circus pygargus) </i>and <b>Pallid Harriers </b><i>(Circus macrourus) </i>also occur regularly through the season. Also worth mentioning the <b>Black Kites </b><i>(Milvus migrans)</i>, which are also uncommon but regular migrants over the peninsula. Eagles are always special, and usually, if any Eagle is wandering around southern Sweden it will eventually show up over the Falsterbo peninsula. <b>Lesser Spotted Eagles </b><i>(Aquila pomarina) </i>are probably the more regular species, but <b>Greater Spotted Eagles </b><i>(Aquila clanga) </i>also appear, and also eventual <b>Steppe Eagles </b><i>(Aquila nipalensis)</i>. Not to mention the regular <b>White-tailed Eagles </b><i>(Haliaeetus albicilla) </i>or the <b>Ospreys </b><i>(Pandion haliaetus)</i>, which both occur regularly, especially the latter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top left to bottom right: adult <b>Red Kite, </b>juvenile <b>Black Kite, </b>adult female <b>Marsh Harrier, </b>adult female <b>Montagu's Harrier, </b>juvenile <b>White-tailed Eagle,</b> subadult <b>Lesser Spotted Eagle, </b>adult <b>Osprey </b>and<b> </b>juvenile <b>Rough-legged Buzzard.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Packed with <b>Common Buzzards</b>...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and also <b>Red Kites</b>!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>LSE</b> in the distance, between Buzzards.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Variability within <b>Honey Buzzards</b>. Bottom right is a first-year, the<br />rest are all adults, sexes mixed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The variation among <b>Common Buzzards </b>is also great! <br />'Scandinavian'/'white' Buzzards are regularly seen. They are<br />so beautiful!</td></tr>
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In terms of numbers, it's really shocking the large amount of <b>Sparrowhawks </b><i>(Accipiter nisus)</i>, that easily reach hundreds of individuals per day, and totals usually taking over 20.000 individuals each season. Falcons are less abundant, but also regular in good numbers, such as <b>Hobbies </b><i>(Falco subbuteo)</i>, <b>Peregrines </b><i>(Falco peregrinus)</i>, <b>Common Kestrels </b><i>(Falco tinnunculus) </i>and <b>Merlins </b><i>(Falco columbarius)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sparrowhawks </b>are very common...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First-year <b>Hobby </b><i>(Falco subbuteo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So common that they can pass even between your tripod legs!</td></tr>
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Looking at the beaches, sandbars and pools close to the shore, good numbers of ducks and waders stop to feed and rest. At the beginning of the season, by late July and early August, hundreds of Terns (mainly <b>Sandwich </b><i>Sterna sandvicensis</i>, <b>Common </b><i>Sterna hirundo</i>, <b>Arctic </b><i>Sterna </i><i>paradisaea</i>) and waders, such as <b>Red Knots </b><i>(Calidris canutus),</i> <b>Bar-tailed Godwits </b><i>(Limosa lapponica) </i>and <b>Oystercatchers </b><i>(Haematopus ostralegus) </i>are seen in rather big numbers. <b>Dunlins </b><i>(Calidris alpina) </i>are also very common, peaking during August, and several more species appear in big numbers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Revlarna packed with birds: waders, gulls, terns and ducks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First-year <b>Sanderlings </b><i>(Calidris alba).</i></td></tr>
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Wildfowl is also very abundant, with hundreds of <b>Northern Pintails </b><i>(Anas acuta)</i>, <b>Northern Shovelers </b><i>(Anas clypeata)</i>, <b>Common Teals </b><i>(Anas crecca)</i>, <b>Mallards </b><i>(Anas platyrhynchos) </i>and thousands of <b>Eurasian Wigeons </b><i>(Anas penelope) </i>gathering during September and October. Swans also gather in big numbers, especially <b>Mute Swans </b><i>(Cygnus olor)</i>, but <b>Whooper </b><i>(Cygnus cygnus) </i>and <b>Bewick's </b><i>(C.columbianus) </i>also occur. Geese are also very very common, and leaving apart the big flocks of <b>Greylag </b><i>(Anser anser) </i>and local <b>Canada Goose </b><i>(Branta canadensis)</i>, there is a lot of migration of <b>Barnacle </b><i>(Branta leucopsis)</i>, <b>Brent </b><i>(Branta bernicla)</i>, <b>Greater White-fronted </b><i>(Anser albifrons) </i>and <b>Bean Geese </b><i>(Anser fabalis). </i><b>Common Cranes </b><i>(Grus grus) </i>are also seen in hundreds on migration between the end of September and beginning of October. Seawatching provides also big numbers of <b>Common </b>and <b>Velvet Scoter </b><i>(Melanitta nigra & Melanitta fusca)</i>, thousands of <b>Common Eider </b><i>(Somateria mollisima)</i>, numerous <b>Black-throated </b><i>(Gavia arctica) </i>and <b>Red-throated Divers </b><i>(Gavia stellata)</i>, and much more...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Mute Swans </b><i>(Cygnus olor) </i>and <b>Barnacle Geese </b><i>(Branta leucopsis) </i>resting<br />at Knösen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Migrating <b>Barnacles </b>over the Flommen reedbeds. The species has increased<br />drastically in the last decades in Southern Sweden!</td></tr>
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... and several unexpected stuff, as these <b>Short-eared Owls </b><i>(Asio flammeus)</i>!<br />
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As you can imagine, this has been just a little glimpse of how amazing can be just to go to Falsterbo, sit down and enjoy <b>bird migration</b>. You can see pretty much anything migrating there... except maybe for actual seabirds, which sadly have decreased a lot around the area since the building of the bridge that connects Copenhague and Malmö. Nonetheless, in a nice, very strong westerly winds, it is worth going to some coastal places in the northern parts of Scania, where you might be lucky and enjoy big numbers of several seabird species, including sometimes very good views.<br />
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On my very last day this season we went seawatching around Torekov headland, and we saw this amazing <b>Black-browed Albatross </b><i>(Thalassarche melanophrys) </i>from Rammsjö!!!<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-65407300745012152372017-09-30T14:55:00.000-07:002017-11-07T14:57:17.783-08:00Flommen summary 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">During the autumn of 2017, <b>3023 birds of 45 species</b> have been ringed in the standardised ringing at the Flommen reedbeds, far below the reference number of 4258 birds (average 1980-2009). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.falsterbofagelstation.se/" target="_blank">here</a></span> to check the seasonal total at Flommen for this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Contrary, for instance, to the previous year (2016), from the beginning of the season it was noticeable the low density and bad growth of the reedbed, probably due to the cold and late spring that affected most of Scandinavia. This had also an apparent effect on the breeding birds, translated into late breeding of the local species, such as <b>Eurasian Reed Warblers</b> <i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus) </i>with chicks fledging as far as late August, and also <b>Reed Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza schoeniclus) </i>with fledglings during mid-August, also slightly later than usual. The bad breeding season had direct effects on the seasonal totals, with the<b> Penduline Tit</b> <i>(Remiz pendulinus) </i>being a good example: only 4 individuals were ringed (average: 18), very likely as a consequence of the bad breeding season in Southern Sweden (Peter Öhrström <i>com.pers.</i>). But this effect is also seen in the numbers of <b>Reed Warblers </b><i>(A.scirpaceus)</i> and <b>Willow Warblers</b> <i>(Phylloscopus trochilus)</i>, species in which the juvenile peak migration, which is usually very strong and produces a lot of captures, was very diluted in numbers and almost unnoticeable through the season. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In order, the most common species this season have been <b>Reed Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus) </i>with 1061 individuals ringed, <b>Sedge Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) </i>with 750, <b>Reed Bunting</b> <i>(Emberiza schoeniclus) </i>with 202, <b>Barn Swallow</b> <i>(Hirundo rustica) </i>with 180, <b>Willow Warbler</b> <i>(Phylloscopus trochilus) </i>with 149 and <b>Sand Martin</b> <i>(Riparia riparia) </i>with 143.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As it is already a clear trend in the last years of the standardised ringing at Flommen, <b>Reed Warblers </b>keep a clear tendency below the average (seasonal total: 1061, average: 1940), as well as <b>Willow Warblers </b>(seasonal total: 149, average: 628). As it was mentioned above, the apparent bad breeding season for this species has clearly affected this season’s numbers, especially in the case of the <b>Willow Warbler.</b> Due to the late breeding season, the adult peak migration passage for the common <i>Acrocephalus </i>Warblers, <b>Reed Warbler</b> <i>(A.scirpaceus) </i>and <b>Sedge Warbler</b> <i>(A.schoenobaenus)</i>, has also been slightly delayed. On these species, adults migrate first than the juveniles, and some years the peak passage of adults has apparently already passed by the time the season starts the 21<sup>st</sup> of July. That is especially the case of the Sedge Warbler, and this year’s late breeding is clearly reflected in the big amount of adults trapped in the beginning of the season. The seasonal total for the Sedge Warbler is 750 ringed individuals, above the average reference number of 588, probably due to the unusual amount of adults. On the other hand, the numbers of <b>Marsh Warbler </b><i>(Acrocephalus palustris) </i>were quite low this season, both for adults and first-years (seasonal total: 68, average: 92).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The absence of <b>Blue Tit </b><i>(Cyanistes caeruleus) </i>invasion this year is also affecting the seasonal total number at Flommen, since 4 birds were ringed when the average is 80. After the relatively calm August due to few juveniles (bad breeding season), September had very few good days in terms of amount of nocturnal migrants landing in the peninsula, and thus the numbers of the regular September species were generally lower than the average reference number. As examples: <b>Robin</b> <i>(Erithacus rubecula) </i>(seasonal total: 56, average: 75), <b>Dunnock</b> <i>(Prunella modularis) </i>(seasonal total: 25, average: 54) and <b>Winter Wren</b> <i>(Troglodytes troglodytes) </i>(seasonal total: 43, average: 40).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On the other hand, it is worth mentioning the good numbers for <b>Barn Swallow</b> <i>(Hirundo rustica) </i>(seasonal total: 180, average: 140), <b>Sand Martin</b> <i>(Riparia riparia) </i>(seasonal total: 143, average: 43) and <b>White Wagtail</b> <i>(Motacilla alba) </i>(seasonal total: 22, average: 12); three species which their numbers depend quite much on the formation of a roosting site in the study area, that was present this year daily during the beginning of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Interesting local breeding birds such as <b>Bearded Reedlings</b> <i>(Panurus biarmicus)</i> bred again in the area (they were common breeding species in the past, but had disappeared for several years until they returned in 2015), and at least 2 pairs were detected. From the ringing data we obtained, both females in both pairs had a successful second clutch in August. In total, 13 juveniles were ringed through the season. Interestingly, at least two female <b>Marsh Warblers</b> <i>(Acrocephalus palustris) </i>were caught in the beginning of the season with broodpatches, and afterwards some fledglings confirmed the breeding of at least 2 pairs in the northern part of the reedbeds. <b>Water Rails</b> <i>(Rallus aquaticus), </i>as many other species as mentioned above, had also a delayed breeding season. 18 individuals were ringed at Flommen, 2 in the standardised ringing and 16 in extra ringing, using metal cages. During the last few seasons there has been an extra effort to ring local breeding Water Rails with quite good results, and although more work is needed, it is interesting to mention that we have no data corresponding to any returning individual (adult or juvenile) to the breeding sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Six foreign recoveries were caught during the season, two <b>Sedge Warblers</b> – one from Latvia and the other from France -, and 4 <b>Reed Warblers</b> – one from France, two from Belgium and 1 from Denmark. 27 individuals were caught from other ringing stations in Sweden: 11 <b>Reed Warblers</b>, 6 <b>Sedge Warblers</b>, 4 <b>Barn Swallows</b>, 4 <b>Penduline Tits</b>, 1 <b>Sand Martin</b> and 1 <b>Reed Bunting</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Among the rare or scarcely captured species this season, there was the 6<sup>th</sup> <b>Savi’s Warbler</b> <i>(Locustella luscinioides) </i>ringed for the Bird Observatory (5<sup>th</sup> at Flommen), the first ever <b>Firecrest </b><i>(Regulus ignicapilla) </i>to be ringed at Flommen (consequence of the increasing tendency of the species in Southern Sweden), a <b>Great Reed Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus arundinaceus)</i> (58<sup>th</sup> at Flommen since 1980), a <b>Bluethroat</b> <i>(Luscinia svecica) </i>(51<sup>st</sup> at Flommen since 1980), a <b>Wryneck</b> <i>(Jynx torquilla) </i>(29<sup>th</sup> in standardised ringing at Flommen since 1980), 2 <b>Common Grasshopper Warblers</b> <i>(Locustella naevia)</i>, 2 <b>Jack Snipes </b><i>(Lymnocryptes minimus)</i> (12<sup>th</sup> and 13<sup>th</sup> in standardised ringing at Flommen) and 9 <b>Spotted Crakes</b> <i>(Porzana porzana) </i>(2 in the standardised ringing and 7 more in extra ringing in the area).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In extra ringing at the same place, 258 birds were ringed including the mentioned amounts of <b>Water Rails</b> (16) and <b>Spotted Crakes</b> (7), 1 <b>Moorhen</b> <i>(Gallinula chloropus), </i>2 <b>Coots </b><i>(Fulica atra)</i>, 9 <b>Mallards</b> <i>(Anas platyrhynchos)</i>,<i> </i>2 <b>Little Grebes </b><i>(Tachybaptus ruficollus), </i>12 <b>Sparrowhawks</b> <i>(Accipiter nisus)</i>, 2 <b>Common Kestrels</b> <i>(Falco tinnunculus)</i>, 2 <b>Short-eared Owls</b> <i>(Asio flammeus), </i>2 <b>Common Snipes</b> <i>(Gallinago gallinago), </i>2 <b>Green Sandpipers</b> <i>(Tringa ochropus)</i>, 1 <b>Wood Sandpiper</b> <i>(Tringa glareola), </i>1 <b class="">Skyark</b> <i>(Alauda arvensis)</i>, 25 <b>Meadow Pipits</b> <i>(Anthus pratensis) </i>and 9 <b>Rock Pipits</b> <i>(Anthus petrosus). <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Ringers that worked on the reedbed with me were, listed by arrival date: Timmy Micallef, Per Andell, Ingela Källén, Emil Lundahl, Alex Zackrisson, Tore Dahlberg and Harald Ris. And, of course, big TACK to the rest of the Falsterbo Bird Observatory crew for another great season!</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-10125861117168170902017-07-19T13:56:00.000-07:002017-11-07T14:02:40.202-08:00Lapland 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This summer I had an extraordinary opportunity to join some Finnish friends to a ringing trip around Lapland. I'm very very grateful to Roni, Jarkko, Petteri and Vilppu for such a nice experience!!!<br />
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We travelled from the central part of Finland to the northern part, close to the borders of Norway and Sweden. On the way north, we stopped in several places, that complemented very very well the trip I had<a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2016/07/finland.html" target="_blank"> last year </a>to Finland and Norway. And most importantly, we had a lot of nice birds!!<br />
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Visiting old-growth spruce forests was a very magical experience, especially when watching closely some of their nicest inhabitants, such as the <b>Bluetails </b><i>(Tarsiger cyanurus)</i> or <b>Three-toed Woodpeckers </b><i>(Picoides tridactylus)</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2cy (EURING 5) male.</span></td></tr>
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Owls and Grouses vary in abundance within years due to population dynamics. For instance, it is well-known that the amount of prey available for owls (mainly rodents) influences to the breeding success and therefore to the abundance of several predator species. In my trip last year, we saw several <b>Hawk Owls </b><i>(Surnia ulula) </i>since it was a very good year for the species, but not for other owls, and we saw no <b>Black Grouses </b><i>(Lyrurus tetrix) </i>or even no <b>Willow Grouses </b><i>(Lagopus lagopus)</i>. This year the situation seemed a bit better for Grouses, but it was still not very good for Owls and especially bad for breeding Hawk Owls. Anyway, just in the beginning of the trip, we had a great observation of a <b>Great Grey Owl </b><i>(Strix nebulosa) </i>perched by the road that I will never forget...<br />
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On the way to the north, we stopped at several places to enjoy some of the greatest treasures of Finland...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Lanceolated Warbler </b><i>(Locustella lanceolata).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Arctic Warbler </b><i>(Phylloscopus borealis)</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Little Bunting </b><i>(Emberiza pusilla)</i>, male.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Little Bunting </b>on its breeding habitat: wet birch and young</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Scots pine mixed open forests.</span></td></tr>
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The main target of the trip was to reach the hills in Lapland where <b>Dotterels </b><i>(Charadrius morinellus) </i>breed. For some years they have been ringing adults and chicks in the breeding grounds. Thanks to the use of white plastic rings, it has been confirmed that they return to the breeding grounds regularly. And this year, in collaboration with other ringers from Finland and from Norway, we helped on deploying geolocators to breeding Dotterels.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Finding the <b>Dotterels </b>in the vast tundra is not so easy, but birds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">like this one -colour-ringed- are showing they do return to the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">same areas to breed.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And we could manage to get some.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">What a pleasure to be able to join a team of truly expert</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ringers, working on such a iconic species on such a nice habitat!!</span></td></tr>
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There are many nice breeding species up there. The large amount of insects, particularly mosquitos, is (apart from being a bit annoying...) a great food source for many birds. This year, though, the spring arrived quite late, with a very cold May when it snowed quite much everywhere. The breeding season up here is quite short; most of the species are migrants that come here, breed, and leave after to avoid the cold and tough times. So this year, with very late snow and cold spring, most of the species failed the apparently failed the beginning of the breeding or simply skipped it. That was very noticeable in the low densities of waders in good habitats, or the late clutches of several passerines. Still, we managed to see most of the nice species!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Lapland Bunting </b><i>(Calcarius lapponicus)</i> warning the chicks</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This <b>Willow Grouse </b><i>(Lagopus lagopus) </i>was as surprised as us</span><br />
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In more rocky areas, <b>Ptarmigans </b><i>(Lagopus muta) </i>and <b>Snow Buntings </b><i>(Plectrophenax nivalis) </i>appear. We were lucky to see several individuals from both species, and also to get some!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Snow Bunting </b>habitat.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We could ring this 2cy (EURING 5) male. GC10 (innermost)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">was moulted on the postjuvenile moult, and it keeps the juvenile</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">'dirty' primary coverts and secondaries.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This adult (EURING 6) male shows clean white primary</span><br />
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On the birch forests that grow on the sides of the tundra <i>fjäll</i>, there are several very nice bird species breeding.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ring Ouzel </b><i>(Turdus torquatus torquatus)</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>'Red-spotted' Bluethroat </b><i>(Luscinia svecica svecica).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Bohemian Waxwing </b><i>(Bombycilla garrulus).</i></span></td></tr>
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Suddenly, lakes may appear and they usually are packed with very interesting waders, such as breeding <b>Red-necked Phalaropes </b><i>(Phalaropus lobatus) </i>and <b>Temminck's Stints </b><i>(Calidris temminckii)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Temminck's Stint </b><i>(Calidris temminckii).</i></span></td></tr>
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We could ring this very nice <b>Temminck's</b>, one of the species that has been studied recently to reveal their amazing journeys from the breeding grounds in the tundra to the far south wintering sites. For more information about Temmick's migration I recommend this paper <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jav.00653/pdf" target="_blank">Lislevand & Hahn 2015</a>.<br />
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In lower areas, extensive mires are the home of several other wader species, such as <b>Wood Sandpipers </b><i>(Tringa glareola)</i>, <b>Ruffs </b><i>(Calidris pugnax)</i>, <b>Broad-billed Sandpipers </b><i>(Calidris falcinellus)</i>... It was amazing to see the latter species displaying in flight!<br />
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Siberian specialities such as the <b>Siberian Jay </b><i>(Perisoreus infaustus) </i>or <b>Siberian Tit </b><i>(Poecile cinctus) </i>are found more commonly in old-growth <b>Scots Pine </b><i>(Pinus sylvestris) </i>forests, that are usually quite well-covered by lichens.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Siberian Tit </b>on its habitat.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Female and male <b>Siberian Tits</b>, sexed on broodpatch/cloaca</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">respectively. Males seem to have darker bib and lores, as well</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">as slightly more purple tinged head than females.</span></td></tr>
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Closeby, we ringed a family of <b>Dippers </b><i>(Cinclus cinclus cinclus). </i>I was expecting the adults to be completely black in the underparts, without this broad brownish-red 'belt'.<br />
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Between hiking journeys to reach Dotterel's breeding areas, we also had some time for the interesting ringing of some breeding <b>Redpolls </b><i>(Acanthis flammea) </i>and also some <b>Twites </b><i>(Linaris flavirostris)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Twite </b><i>(Linaria flavirostris)</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Primary shape (and, used carefully, also primary wear) can be a</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">an adult (EURING 6) male on the left and a 2cy (EURING 5)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> female to the right. Notice the pinkish feathers on the rump that</span><br />
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Having deployed some geolocators to some Dotterels and enjoyed most of the local breeding birds, we started our journey back to the south, having some more interesting stops on the way. If you are a foreigner you may love to see a <b>Moose </b><i>(Alces alces) </i>this close to the road, but then you realise how big they are and how you prefer them to be away from the roads.<br />
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Among others, we had a brief stop to check <b>Blyth's Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus dumetorum)</i>, which was very interesting for me! They really feel different from a Reed Warbler, especially in hand..</div>
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Other highlights were these two nice species!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Whimbrel </b><i>(Numenius phaeopus) </i>chick.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Corncrake </b><i>(Crex crex)</i>.</span></td></tr>
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A really amazing trip that I will always thank my Finnish friends: <b>Kiitoksia</b>!!!</div>
Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-3978578205621834042017-06-24T08:16:00.000-07:002017-06-27T03:28:06.777-07:00EBBA2 - GBBA1, again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.fr/2016/06/ebba2-gbba1.html" target="_blank">last year</a>, this June we spent a week looking for breeding birds and evidences for the <a href="http://www.ebba2.info/" target="_blank">European Breeding Birds Atlas 2 (EBBA2)</a>, in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.ornithologiki.gr/" target="_blank">Hellenic Ornithological Society (HOS)</a> and the <a href="http://www.ornitologia.org/ca/" target="_blank">Catalan Ornithological Institute (ICO)</a>. This year's expedition team was composed by Martí Franch, David Funosas and me, and we surveyed the NE part of Greece, through Rhodope mountains following (more or less) the border with Bulgaria, and to Thrace region right before the border with Turkey. Thank you for these days! And special thanks to Danae Portolou too, who was behind the organisation of the squares and logistics of the trip.<br>
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We started in the mountains, through <b>Fir</b> forests, mixed with <b>Scots Pine</b><i> (Pinus sylvestris)</i> and several decidious trees species, including extensive <b>Beech</b> <i>(Fagus sylvatica)</i> forests.<br>
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So we started with the usual set of species for this kind of forests, including several <b>Goldcrests </b><i>(Regulus regulus) </i>and also <b>Firecrests </b><i>(Regulus ignicapilla)</i>, several <b>Coal Tits </b><i>(Periparus ater)</i>, <b>Nuthatches </b><i>(Sitta europaea)</i>...<br>
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The amount of Woodpeckers is remarcable in the whole country, with all European species present. <b>White-backed </b><i>(Dendrocopos leucotos) </i>and <b>Three-toed </b><i>(Picoides tridactylus) </i>are present in the Rhodope mountains, but sadly we didn't manage to see them. Nonetheless, we succeded with the rest: <b>Lesser Spotted, Middle Spotted, Great Spotted, Syrian, Green, Grey-headed </b>and <b>Black</b>. Indeed, no <b>Wrynecks </b>were detected.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Grey-headed Woodpecker </b><i>(Picus canus)</i>. We only detected a<br>
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This year we visited an area with a much lower density of <b>Brown Bears </b><i>(Ursus arctos)</i>, that was one of the highlights of last year's trip. We weren't pleased to see any, but the signs at the rubbish bins were informing:<br>
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We did see two other joys from the forest: <b>Hazel Grouse </b><i>(Bonasa bonasia)</i> and <b>Spotted</b> <b>Nutcracker </b><i>(Nucifraga caryocatactes)</i>.<br>
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Open rocky areas, where the forest ends, provided an interesting set of species, such as <b>Yellowhammer </b><i>(Emberiza citrinella)</i>, <b>European Stonechat </b><i>(Saxicola rubicola) </i>and <b>Barred Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia nisoria)</i>!<br>
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<b>Red-rumped Swallows </b><i>(Cecropis daurica) </i>and <b>Red-backed Shrikes </b><i>(Lanius collurio)</i> are also very common in this habitat, but indeed, they are found in several kind of habitats and altitudes.<br>
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Going down in the mountains, soon the forest is dominated by <b>Hungarian Oaks </b><i>(Quercus frainetto), </i><b>Kermes Oak </b><i>(Quercus coccifera ssp. calliprinos)</i> and other mediterranean species. There, different species may occur depending on the habitat structure, based on vegetation coverage, related to slopes orientation, soil composition, grazing activities, and several other factors.<br>
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<b>Ortolan Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza hortulana)</i>, <b>Middle Spotted Woodpeckers </b><i>(Dendrocopos medius)</i>, <b>Eastern Black-eared Wheatears </b><i>(Oenanthe (hispanica) melanoleuca)</i>, <b>Eastern Subalpine Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans albistriata)</i>, <b>Sombre Tits </b><i>(Poecile lugubris)</i>, <b>Eastern Orphean Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia crassirostris), </i><b>Blue Rock Thrushes </b><i>(Monticola solitarius)</i>...<i> </i>are some of the present species in these habitats.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Male <b>Eastern Black-eared Wheatear </b><i>(melanoleuca). </i>Black<br>
in the lores reaches the upper base of the bill. Also, the black <br>
'ears' are connected to the wing through a faint black line.<br>
This latter feature is very variable, but seems to not occur<br>
on the western <i>hispanica</i> populations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Female <b>Eastern Black-eared Wheatear </b><i>(melanoleuca)</i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A juvenile <b>Sombre Tit </b><i>(Poecile lugubris) </i>wanted to join<br>
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It was very interesting to check several <b>Eastern Subalpine Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans albistriata). </i>At this time of the year they are more worn, and they seem to have lost most or all the white tips in the throat feathers. <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.fr/2017/04/spring-migration-in-western.html" target="_blank">Check these pictures</a> from ringed birds this spring in Western Mediterranean for more detail information.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breast deeply coloured in the throat. R5 shows a lot of white<br>in the tip. Primary projection also gives a longer impression.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another individual showing the characteristic tail pattern.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Eastern Orphean Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia crassirostris)</i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Black Storks </b><i>(Ciconia nigra) </i>are also quite regular in the<br>
region, becoming more common as we were heading to the<br>
east.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Spur-tighed Tortoises </b><i>(Testudo graeca) </i>can turn up anywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some very nice flowers can be found commonly, such as the<br><b>Dragon Arum </b><i>(Dracunculus vulgaris)</i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Or this <b>Lizard Orchid </b><i>(Himantoglossum caprinum).</i></td></tr>
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Leaving the Mediterranean forests, the lowlands landscape is covered by agricultural land. Interestingly, most of fields are small and surrounded by trees and bushes, the denominated <i>bocage</i> agricultral landscape, which is far from the extensive agricultural practises. Probably this is one of the factors that allow the great numbers of insects everywhere. For instance, the amount of grasshoppers was surpsising in several spots, or the clouds of moths at night around the lights on the streets. And all of this is food for the birds, that can reach much higher densities in this landscape than in the extensive agriculture.</div>
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<b>Black-headed Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza melanocephala)</i> are one of the commonest passerines in this habitat. Males are bright yellow and sing very exposed, usually from the top of a bush, but females are much more secretive.</div>
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<b>Black-headed Yellow Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla flava feldegg) </i>are also very common in this habitat.</div>
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<b>Spanish Sparrows </b><i>(Passer hispaniolensis) </i>are usually seen in flocks through the agricultural landscape, but most of nests that we found were on riparian forests (especially on plantations) and in <b>White Storks </b><i>(Ciconia ciconia) </i>nests, where they breed together.</div>
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Probably thanks to the high numbers of insects and to the trees and bushes to perch, hunt and nest, Shrikes are represented in the area with a good number of species. <b>Red-backed Shrikes </b><i>(Lanius collurio) </i>can be found also in some areas with agricultural landscape, and also <b>Lesser Grey Shrikes </b><i>(Lanius minor)</i>, <b>Eastern Woodchat Shrikes </b><i>(Lanius senator niloticus) </i>and <b>Masked Shrikes </b><i>(Lanius nubicus) </i>appear.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Lesser Grey Shrike </b><i>(Lanius minor).</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Woodchat Shrike </b><i>(Lanius senator niloticus).</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Masked Shrike </b><i>(Lanius nubicus)</i>, male. We found them in<br>bushes close to the rivers across the drylands... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... and also nesting in riparian forests, dominated by <i>Populus <br>nigra </i>and <i>Populus alba.</i></td></tr>
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<b>Eastern Olivaceous Warblers </b><i>(Iduna pallida elaeica) </i>are among the commonest passerines too. They are almost present anywhere with bushes! And are usually quite active, not allowing long observations.</div>
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<b>Olive-tree Warblers </b><i>(Hippolais olivetorum) </i>are also present, in mature Oak tree forests or even in isolated Trees, surrounded by bushes between the fields. They are surprisingly elusive, singing from the inside of the vegetation and allowing very brief observations. This picture below is the best I could get after quite a long time trying...<br>
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We could enjoy some <b>Levant Sparrowhawks </b><i>(Accipiter brevipes) </i>too, like these two adult males, already moulting.</div>
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The latter was hunting some Eastern Oliv. Warblers in a extensive tamarisk area, with a very big reedbed besides Nestos Lake. There, we had good numbers of <b>Reed </b><i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus) </i>and also <b>Marsh Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus palustris)</i>, as well as <b>Great Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus arundinaceus)</i> and <b>Little Bitterns </b><i>(Ixobrychus minutus). </i><b>Lapwings </b><i>(Vanellus vanellus) </i>and <b>Collared Pratincoles </b><i>(Glareola praticola) </i>were present, probably breeding, such as <b>Little Tern </b><i>(Sternula albifrons)</i>, <b>Common Tern </b><i>(Sterna hirundo) </i>and even <b>Black Tern </b><i>(Chlidonias niger)</i>. We also had two adult <b>White-winged Terns </b><i>(Chlidonias leucopterus)</i>, that could be still late migrants. At dusk, while searching for night singers, we could enjoy at least 3 <b>Golden Jackals </b><i>(Canis aureus). </i>The picture is just testimonial, since it was alredy quite late in the day!</div>
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We visited a feeding place for vultures that you can acces from the Information Centre at the Dadia Forest National Park. It was nice to see the three vultures feeding there, but sadly no Lammergeiers are left in continental Greece. Nonetheless, I found very interesting to see an adult <b>White-tailed Eagle </b><i>(Haliaeetus albicilla) </i>eating among them! As we have the 4 vulture species in Catalunya feeding together, I wonder in how many places you can see three vultures and White-tailed Eagles...</div>
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The last stop we had was already on the way back to Thessaloniki, We stopped at Pangaion mountain, which was surprinsingly high: almost 2000 m right besides the Mediterranean Sea. There's even a Ski station up there, so you might be able to do it while watching the Mediterranean Sea in front of you... We had great views up there of some <b>Balkan Horned Larks </b><i>(Eremophila alpestris balcanica)</i>. Nice way to farewell the country!</div>
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This spring at my local patch has been one of the best ever. We had record numbers (nothing too special, but very nice in a local scale!!) of pretty much everything. I already had a <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/local-birding-days.html" target="_blank">post on local birding</a> this year, but it definetely deserves another!<br />
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While the <b>Sandwich Tern </b>was the highlight of the other post, this <b>Purple Swamphen </b><i>(Porphyrio porphyrio) </i>was also a really rare bird inland!</div>
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Not as rare but very interesting was the arrival of 3 <b>Coots </b><i>(Fulica atra)</i>, a species that used to breed in the area commontly, but that dissapeared quickly some years ago (more info: <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/cooting.html" target="_blank">here</a>). After they dissapeared, the species turned out to be an irregular migrant, so to have 3 together is quite promising. Indeed, a 4rth individual has arrived recently and it seems that, at least, a couple has been formed and they might breed... again! :)</div>
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To continue with <i>Rallidae</i>, two different <b>Little Crakes </b><i>(Porzana porzana)</i>, female and male,<i> </i>were also spotted during several days at the place. Certaintly a very scarce migrant inland!! They stayed for several days and offered great views!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These pictures are much worse, from a different male seen this spring at<br />
<i>Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park</i>. Despite the bad quality, notice<br />
the much more worn primaries, rounded shape and even pointed outer<br />
ones, which suggests a second-year (EURING 5).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jordi Comellas took this excellent picture of the female we had in <i>l'Aiguamoll<br />de la Bòbila</i>. It shows perfectly the primary projection, worn and with rounded<br />
tips, which points to second-year (EURING 5).</td></tr>
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Right at the other side of the hide, <b>Little Grebes </b><i>(Tachybaptus ruficollis) </i>were carefully working on the future generation...</div>
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Migration kept offering very good days, with 2 <b>Red-throated Pipits </b><i>(Anthus cervinus)</i>, <b>Tawny Pipits </b><i>(Anthus campestris)</i>, <b>Ortolan Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza hortulana) </i>and several hundreds <b>Yellow Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla flava) </i>on the fields.</div>
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May-migrants such as <b>Melodious Warbler </b><i>(Hippolais polyglotta)</i>, <b>Garden Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia borin) </i>and <b>Spotted Flycatcher </b><i>(Muscicapa striata)</i> arrived in time, and some individuals of each species were caught for ringing.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Spotted Flycatcher </b><i>(Muscicapa striata).</i></td></tr>
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<b>Common Sandpipers </b><i>(Actitis hypoleucos) </i>also peak during the beggining of May, and up to 3 individuals were caught for ringing (first wader species ever caught at the station!).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second-year (EURING 5). Notice the pale and worn primaries,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another second-year (EURING 5). See comments above. Here<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6). Notice the fresher plumage overall, and<br />
especially on the wing feathers. There's no moult limit on the<br />
secondaries. White markings pattern on the secondaries is more<br />
conspicuous, and primary coverts also show wider pale tips.</td></tr>
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As every year, a little ringing project with <b>Quails </b><i>(Coturnix coturnix) </i>was done in the area. They are so beautiful birds!!</div>
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But the best migrant was, for sure, 2 different <b>Western Orphean Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia hortensis)</i>. Always a very nice bird to catch on migration!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second-year (EURING 5) female. Notice the 4 primaries<br />
moulted in winter in the left wing (P2-P5), 3 on the right<br />
wing (P2-P4, although the latter is broken). According to the <br />
literature*, this winter moult extension has only been recorded <br />
on <b>Eastern Orphean Warblers </b><i>(S.crassirostris)</i>, so it will be<br />
interesting to check more individuals. Also notice the outer<br />
greater coverts replaced in winter.<br />
*Shirihai, Gargallo & Helbig (2001). <i>Sylvia Warblers</i>, Helm, London.</td></tr>
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Local birds are also nice though. This spring I caught some <b>Woodpigeons </b><i>(Columba palumbus). </i>If you are interested, I already had posted some notes <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com/2017/04/local-birding-days.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) according to the unmoulted secondaries. At<br />
least 2 generations visible, being the older adult-type. This<br />
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a nice <b>Magpie </b><i>(Pica pica)</i>:</div>
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Plumage traits, with the extensive white on the outer primaries, almost reaching the tip, and the bright colouration in the whole wing and tail, with few wear on the flight feathers, indicates an adult (EURING 6). Interestingly, it had part of the mouth (inside) pinkish, which I had always related to juveniles. It seems that they could keep this colouration for at least some time...</div>
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A <b>Hoopoe </b><i>(Upupa epops) </i>family was caught too, and they offered the chance to analyse some different ages and sexes:</div>
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After last year's reedbed restoration work in the area, in order to get a younger reedbed more suitable for Warblers, I've been particularly waiting for some <b>Great Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus arundinaceus)</i> to arrive. The reedbed was burnt intentionally so the reedbed could come up again, but after last year's drought only one Great Reed Warbler was seen in the area, for very few days. </div>
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Finally this individual (picture above) showed up, and it turned out to have a ring already!, which highlights the interest of ringing in constant effort ringing sites, and how this data can be used for conservation purposes (indeed, the restoration plan came out of the ringing data, that showed a decreasing tendency of Great Reed Warblers in the area and how they had 'abandoned' the old reedbed that we decided to restore). Thanks to that, we know that it's a breeding female from 2015, that raised up 4 chicks. Let's hope she is able to do it again this year, hopefully in the new reedbed! </div>
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The most unexpected sighting this spring, though, was not in my area. While visiting the Llobregat Delta during an excursion with the Vertebrates subject I'm taking at University, we were very surprised to find a <b>Terek Sandpiper </b><i>(Xenus cinereus)</i>! And if that wasn't enough, it turned out to be ringed with 2 yellow colour-rings, one in each tibia. Thanks to the keen work by Antonio Gutierrez, we soon discovered it has been ringed in Finland as a chick in 2005 (!). From 2007 on it has been coming back to the Finnish territories to breed (where very few pairs are left!), and it has actually been sighted several times in Sweden (both in spring and autumn migration), and once in the Netherlands. This new observation of this individual suggests very strongly that he is (yeah, it's a male) wintering somewhere in W Africa. Thanks to Veli-Matti, the ringer, for proving all the information so quick, and congratulations for your excellent job!</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-37386169750389867952017-05-24T13:30:00.001-07:002017-05-24T20:33:35.371-07:00Spring migration in the Western Mediterranean (II)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back to Catalunya after some days studying bird migration in <a href="https://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/spring-migration-in-western.html" target="_blank">Menorca</a>, I spent some days ringing in northern Catalunya, at <i>Aiguamolls de l'Empordà </i>Natural Park. The vast reedbeds, marshes and surrounding trees create a very suitable stopover site for many bird species, and just before Pyrenees (Albera mountains, precisely) crossing. Littoral wetlands are very important places for breeding, wintering and migrating birds, and they are occupied by thousands of birds. It it extremely important to preserve this areas in the near future, and so it is important to study properly the birds to know what can we do for them and how.<br>
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I spent some days ringing on the spring ringing season that takes place in <i>El Barracot </i>(check <a href="http://apps.ornitologia.org/anella/migra/P001/charts/ALL" target="_blank">here</a> the totals). I had a bit of unpredictable weather, but thanks to that a good amount of birds were caught, and with an interesting diversity. Swallows were by far the commonest trapped bird, mainly <b>Barn Swallows</b> (<i>Hirundo rustica</i>), but I also had the chance to get some <b>Sand Martins</b> (<i>Riparia riparia</i>), few<b> House Martins</b> <i>(Delichon urbicum</i>) and 2 <b>Red-rumped Swallows</b> (<i>Cecropis daurica</i>).<br>
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There was one very special day, cloudy and with shower storms coming from now and then, that forced some hundreds of <b>Barn Swallows </b>to stop around the area. During the afternoon, they started landing anywhere it looked more or less suitable... even on horse's shit.<br>
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That night, ca.200 individuals where caught in the nets (without any tape!), which ended up in quite a lot of work for being me alone and because they had been caught spread in a lot of different nets. Fortunately, Albert Burgas and Yeray appeared and provided so much help - thank you very much!!<br>
After having them all ringed and processed, it was amazing to discover a small flock roosting besides the ringer's house, just roosting under the roof in a small porch, but even more to see the ones in the Barn Swallow nest!!!<br>
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I had quite good diversity combination of species, mostly transaharan migrants, with <b>Pied Flycatchers</b> (<i>Ficedula hypoleuca</i>) being one of the commonest.<br>
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Other migrants followed in rather good numbers, such as <b>Willow Warbler </b><i>(Phylloscopus trochilus) </i>and <b>Whitethroat </b><i>(Sylvia communis)</i>.</div>
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<b>Little Bitterns </b><i>(Icobrychus minutus) </i>were a nice bonus, both male and female respectively.</div>
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It was very interesting to study as well some local breeding <b>Yellow Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla flava). </i>All the ones I could examine, including this one, seemed to be rather perfect <i>cinereocapilla. </i>Only the tiny white remainings of a supercilium in this individual could remember something of <i>iberian</i>, that is also breeding in the region and that can hybridize with <i>cinereocapilla</i>.<br>
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Motivated by last year's <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2016/05/aquatic-work.html" target="_blank">success</a>, I got encourage to give another try for <i>Acrocephalus</i> Warblers at <i>Empordà </i>county. Indeed, we succeded again! (thanks Aïda, Oriol, Albert and people from the Natural Park that provided the ringing permits)<br>
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And indeed, we could manage to get another species-mix picture. From left to right: <b>Aquatic Warbler </b><i>(Acrocephalus paludicola)</i>, <b>Sedge Warbler </b><i>(A.schoenobaenus)</i>, <b>Moustached Warbler </b><i>(A.melanopogon)</i> & <b>Reed Warbler </b><i>(A.scirpaceus)</i>. <b>Great Reed Warbler </b><i>(A.arundinaceus) </i>had been caught right before...!<br>
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While many species are still migrating, others are already investing their energies on breeding. Places like the <i>Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park </i>are very important for bird conservation, and thus they are very important to maintain in proper conditions. This <b>Great Crested Grebe </b><i>(Podiceps cristatus)</i>, already incubating, might be taking a breath for the Natural Park's maintenance in the future.<br>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-84105289202985299262017-04-20T15:23:00.000-07:002017-05-15T02:02:46.722-07:00Spring migration in the Western Mediterranean (I)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This year for Easter I had the great pleasure to participate once again in the spring ringing season in <i>Illa de l'Aire</i>, an small islet south of Menorca, in the Balearic Islands, where the <a href="http://www.menorcasom.org/" target="_blank">SOM</a> (Menorcan Ornithological Society) has organized the campaign for the last 25 years!! So the first thing I have to write down is a big congrats for all of you, for being such great ringers and very nice friends!<br />
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These days' team was composed by Ingela (who got a lot of new-in-hand species!), and Pere Mercadal, a future Menorcan ringer. And of course, the amount of <b>Lilford's Wall Lizards </b><i>(Podarcis lilfordi lilfordi) </i>that are virtually everywhere in the island!</div>
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Islands often hold incredible secrets of evolution of life, as it's the case for instance with the relationship between the Lilford's Wall Lizard and the <b>Dead Horse Arum Lily </b><i>(Helicodiceros muscivorus)</i>. The plant provides juicy fruits for the lizards to eat, that feed mainly on them during summer, and at the same time the seeds get dispersion over the island. The plant is also called "pig's ear" in Catalan for it's shape and texture, and it's full of this 'hair' that trap flies inside. The flower has a characteristic bad smell, for the acumulation of dead flies inside.</div>
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<b>Lilford's Wall Lizard </b>population in this island is one of the most dense populations of lizards in the world! And such a density may attract predators, such as <b>Booted Eagles </b><i>(Aquila pennata)</i>, that have learnt to hunt them. And <b>Kestrels</b><i><b> </b>(Falco tinnunculus)</i>, that might be too keen to visit the island to hunt, and then they are eventually caught on the nets!<br />
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The island acts as the very first piece of land that migrants find after the long sea-crossing over the Mediterranean. Even being a rather hostile island, full of pointed rocks and few vegetation, it must look like a great place to spot for them. Some may stay for hours and then jump to Menorca or continue with their travels, other might need several days to have energy to continue, and other might day on the try. Fortunately most of birds apparently succed on their migration journeys.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This <b>Robin </b>was in a rather poor condition, and stayed in the<br />island for over a week...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Others (such as this <b>Blackcap</b>) will stay shortly, for a day or<br />just for several hours. Among the few resouces available in<br />the island, flowers and their nectar are a rather good source<br />of energy. And also a good pollination for the plants!</span></td></tr>
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We had rather warm and sunny days, almost without wind, and we were lucky enough to have some good migration days. <b>Robins</b> <i>(Erithacus rubecula)</i> were surprisingly the commonest birds, with more than 230 ringed in a single day. Together with several <b>Blackcaps </b><i>(Sylvia atricapilla)</i>, <b>Song Thrushes</b> <i>(Turdus philomelos)</i>,<b> Chiffchaffs</b> <i>(Phylloscopus collybita)</i>, 1 <b>Meadow Pipit </b><i>(Anthus pratensis)</i>, 2 <b>Dunnocks </b><i>(Prunella modularis)</i> and 1 <b>Bluethroat</b> <i>(Luscinia svecica)</i> proved the tendency of this year's spring to have some late (mid-April) peaks of presaharan migrants. The two latter species are rather rarely caught in the island in spring!</div>
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<b>Willow Warblers </b><i>(Phylloscopus trochilus)</i> were the second commonest species, and they lead the transaharan migrants passage. Good numbers of <b>Redstarts</b> <i>(Phoenicurus phoenicurus)</i> and still few individuals of species like <b>Pied Flycatcher</b> <i>(Ficedula hypoleuca)</i>, <b>Whinchat </b><i>(Saxicola rubetra)</i>, <b>Common Whitethroat</b> <i>(Sylvia communis)</i>,<b> Subalpine Warbler</b> <i>(Sylvia cantillans)</i>, <b>Nightingale</b> <i>(Luscinia megarhynchos)</i> and <b>Yellow Wagtail</b> <i>(Motacilla flava)</i>, <b>Tree Pipits </b><i>(Anthus trivialis),</i> among other species.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yellow Wagtail </b><i>(Motacilla flava)</i>, <i>flava </i>subspecies.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Whinchat </b><i>(Saxicola rubetra)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Whitethroat </b><i>(Sylvia communis)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Redstart </b><i>(Phoenicurus phoenicurus)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Common Nightingale </b><i>(Luscinia megarhynchos)</i></span></td></tr>
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More interesting transaharan migrants follows:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Wryneck </b><i>(Jynx torquilla)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ortolan Bunting </b><i>(Emberiza hortulana)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Short-toed Lark </b><i>(Calandrella brachydactyla)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A lot of <b>Hoopoes </b><i>(Upupa epops)</i>! This season more than 40<br /> have been ringed already!</span></td></tr>
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<b>Subalpine Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans) </i>were caught in few numbers, but with an interesting diversity. We caught up to 4 putative (pending to be accepted by the Spanish Rarities Committee) <b>Eastern Subalpine Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans albistriata)</i> and a putative <b>'Italian' Subalpine Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans cantillans). </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4 different <b>Eastern Subalpine Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans albistriata)</i>, showing tail and<br />breast patterns. All 2cy (EURING 5). Notice the deep colour restricted to the throat, with<br />some feathers with white tips. White moustachial stripe wide and well-defined. R5 has a lot<br />of white, but only when the feather has been replaced!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>'Italian' Subalpine Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans cantillans), </i>2cy<br />(EURING 5) male. The tail pattern is similar to <i>albistriata</i>, with<br />a lot of white following the racuis on R5. Underparts colouration<br />has a slightly distinctive deeper area on the throat, with some white<br />tips, and orangish flanks and belly.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An <b>Iberian Subalpine Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans iberiae)</i>.<br />Notice more uniform orangish underparts, and less white<br />on R5. Some individuals can show white patterns similar<br />to eastern taxa, and it can even vary in the same individual,<br />as in this one: usual <i>iberian </i>pattern on one side and a bit<br />of white following the rachis on the other.</span></td></tr>
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Also 2 males of the recent split <b>Moltoni's Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia subalpina)</i>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notice how the breast colour can change drastically in the pictures!,<br />and it's of course the same bird... In the sun they look quite orangish<br />(in the picture!!!), but the real colour, salmon-pink, is better shown<br />in the picture below. Also notice the dark loral area.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tail pattern of the individual above, with a straight clear cut between<br />blackish and white in R5, which is likely to be the common pattern<br />in <i>subalpina.</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Two pictures of the second individual, showing the salmon-pink<br />underparts, a very dark loral area (not always as obvious!), and<br />very fresh plumage (look at the closed wing in the second picture),<br />after their usual complete moult in winter.</span></td></tr>
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Talking about Balearic birds, it might be also interesting to show this <b>Balearic Woodchat Shrike </b><i>(Lanius senator badius)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adult (EURING 6) female <i><b>badius</b>. </i>Some females can have a<br />more similar male-like plumage.</span></td></tr>
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As you can see, we had a lot of diversity! And <i>Phylloscopus </i>couldn't be an exception:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4 <i>Phylloscopus </i>species!<br />from left to right: <b>Common Chiffchaff </b><i>(P.collybita)</i>, <b>Iberian Chiffchaff</b><br /><i>(P.ibericus)</i>, <b>Willow Warbler </b><i>(P.trochilus) </i>and <b>Wood Warbler </b><i>(P.sibilatrix).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Closer picture of the <b>Iberian Chiffchaff</b>...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And a <b>Western Bonelli's Warbler </b><i>(P.bonelli)</i>!, that was missing<br />the other day, but was also caught afterwards!</span></td></tr>
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When Sun goes down and Gulls search for a place to stay overnight...<br />
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And seabirds, like <b>Scopoli's Shearwaters </b><i>(Calonectris diomedea) </i>and <b>Storm Petrels </b><i>(Hydrobates pelagicus)</i>, appear around the island, usually delighting with great scenes while they call and display in the dark.<br />
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It's also during the night when most of birds caught during the day will continue their travels, and a new bunch of migrants will be brave enough to cross the Mediterranean.<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-85130504120932898692017-04-08T17:21:00.005-07:002017-05-27T03:21:56.372-07:00Local birding days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since I started birding I've been focusing most of my hours and days in the field close to my place, in Central Catalunya. In practical facts there's an obvious reason to go there, since a relatively proper wetland in less than 10 minutes by foot from my bedroom. And despite you can't compare the place to a true birding hotspot, I have seen quite much interesting stuff and, above all, learnt a lot. These are some lines of experiences in my local areas during some last few days.</div>
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I came up with this thoughts the other day when I was extremely pleased watching the first <b>Sandwich Tern </b><i>(Sterna sandvicensis)</i> seen in my area and in this part of Central Catalunya. Sandwitch Terns are common along the shoreline, fishing in the sea, and they can be seen all year round in the Mediterranean, where they both breed and winter. Nonetheless, inland sightings are very rare! So probably that's why I had never expected this species to show up here. Anyway, the morning of the 25th of March 2017 this individual showed up after an intense storm the previous night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The whole pale plumage (especially the outer primaries) suggest that it's<br />an adult (EURING 6 -at least-).</span></td></tr>
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Every spring is different in migration terms! If I had to summarize what this spring season has been so far in my area I would point out the raptors. Due to wind, rain and other meteorological circumstances it has been a remarcable good spring for migrating raptors so far, with no less than 170 <b>Short-toed Eagles </b><i>(Circaetus gallicus)</i>, 2 <b>Booted Eagles </b><i>(Aquila pennata)</i>, 42 <b>Common Buzzards </b><i>(Buteo buteo)</i>, 6 <b>Red Kites </b><i>(Milvus milvus)</i>, 327 <b>Black Kites </b><i>(Milvus migrans)</i>, 46 <b>Marsh Harriers </b><i>(Circus aeruginosus), </i>1 <b>Hen Harrier </b><i>(Circus cyaneus)</i>, 35 <b>Sparrowhawks </b><i>(Accipiter nisus) </i>and 5 <b>Goshawks </b><i>(Accipiter gentilis)</i>. Most of Black Kites were seen together in a big flock the 1st of April in the afternoon, when a <b>Black Stork </b><i>(Ciconia nigra) </i>decided to pass by too.<br />
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Also, <b>White Storks </b><i>(Ciconia ciconia) </i>flocks have been quite regular. The latest flock spend the night between the 1st and the 2nd of April, and I could manage to see some rings the following morning, mostly from Germany but also 3 from Switzerland, 1 from the Netherlands and 1 from Sweden.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Swedish Stork tiding up...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some German individuals also wanted to look nice.</span></td></tr>
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While reading the ring numbers I had very good light, which it was a good suport for getting most of the codes. After looking at them for a while, I realised of some plumage differences between individuals. When the information from the ringed individuals comes, it will be interesting to check if this ageing tips are correct!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Second-year (EURING 5). White Storks have a complete<br />postjuvenile moult, but it starts between December and May of<br />the second calendar year. This individual, with rather brownish<br />plumage except for some very fresh (replaced) scapulars, hasn't<br />started the primary moult yet.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Primary moult suspended probably due to migration. The outer<br />primaries, primary coverts and secondaries (not replaced) look<br />more worn and paler than in the individual below. Maybe an a<br />second-year that hatched rather early? Could a third calendar<br />year look like this due to earlier complete moult in the second<br />years? Is it just an adult with more worn old plumage?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adult, with suspended primary moult, probably due to migration.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adult, with some secondaries that haven't been replaced (yet)<br />in the last complete moult.</span></td></tr>
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Most of my ringing stations are making 5 full years of activity this year, and thus some interesting recaps are already possible to get. For instance this (at least) 5 years old <b>Great Tit </b><i>(Parus major)</i>, which was caught with her partner, also ringed the same day and also older than 5 years now!<br />
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<b>Blackcaps </b><i>(Sylvia atricapilla) </i>are probably the most common migrant so far in the area, with rather good numbers.<br />
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Also, <b>Willow Warblers </b><i>(Phylloscopus trochilus)</i>, <b>Subalpine Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans)</i>, <b>Common Redstarts </b><i>(Phoenicurus phoenicurus) </i>and <b>Nightingales </b><i>(Luscinia megarhynchos)</i> have arrived, together with an early <b>Pied Flycatcher </b><i>(Ficedula hypoeluca)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Willow Warbler </b><i>(Phylloscopus trochilus).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Subalpine Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans)</i>, male.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Second-year (EURING 5) male <b>Redstart </b><i>(P. phoenicurus).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Second-year (EURING 5) male <b>Redstart.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adult (EURING 6) male <b>Redstart</b>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Common Nightingale </b><i>(Luscinia megarhynchos).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adult (EURING 6) male <b>Pied Flycatcher </b><i>(Ficedula hypoeluca).</i></span></td></tr>
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This <b>Scops Owl </b><i>(Otus scops) </i>was also a nice surprise in the nets!<br />
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It was an adult (EUING 6), due to the relatively fresh flight feathers and their pattern, also in the tail.<br />
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But local birding also allows to study in proper detail the local species, such as <b>Woodpigeons </b><i>(Columba palumbus)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adult (EURING 6). Some secondaries are retained in the last<br />moult, but they are rather fresh and adult-like (notice for instance<br />the edges).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Indeterminate age (EURING 4). All secondaries have been<br />moulted in the last moult, or at least no retained ones are<br />visible.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Probable second-year (EURING 5). Several secondaries have<br />been retained in the complete postjuvenile moult, they are worn<br />and narrower</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></td></tr>
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<b>Green Woodpecker </b><i>(Picus viridis) </i>was a nice bonus for these days, and indeed a species that I don't catch so regularly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Second-year (EURING 5) female, with all primary coverts still in<br />juvenile pattern. No red on the malar stripe.</span></td></tr>
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But probably the most local bird I had the chance to study was this <b>Red-legged Partridge </b><i>(Alectoris rufa) </i>that somehow managed to get caught. A typical second-year (EURING 5), with the two outermost primaries still juvenile.<br />
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Let's continue with spring!<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-4525344929729816822017-03-21T13:49:00.000-07:002017-03-21T13:49:44.930-07:00Spring colours<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Although the actual spring equinox was yesterday, I always start to feel the spring in February, when you can already notice some birds migrating, mainly presaharan birds (such as Thrushes, Dunnocks...) or already the first <b>House Martins </b><i>(Delichon urbicum) </i> or <b>Barn Swallows </b><i>(Hirundo rustica)</i>. Also, <b>White Storks </b><i>(Ciconia ciconia) </i>are regular on passage during February, and that makes quite an spring feeling already! Also, amphibians are quite active, and after a very nice rainy evening when we could watch several nice species, I considered the spring to have started.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Iberian Spadefood Toad </b><i>(Pelobates cultripes)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>'Southern' Common Toad </b><i>(Bufo spinosus)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Common Parsley Frog </b><i>(Pelodytes punctatus)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Natterjack Toad </b><i>(Epidalea calamita)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Fire Salamander </b><i>(Salamandra salamandra)</i></td></tr>
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After a rather good <b>Black Redstart</b>'s <i>(Phoenicurus ochruros)</i> autumn season last year, it was expected also a good spring passage. At least it was quite good in my area, where I could notice well the arrival of migrants since all (or almost) wintering birds had been ringed. Once more, I've been surprised on the relatively high proportion of <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/black-redstart.html" target="_blank">'<i>paradoxus'</i> males</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very black face, throat and breast, dark upperparts, but no tertials <br />
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2cy (EURING 5) male.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Browner' individual, with darker wing coverts, a few dark feathers<br />
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2cy (EURING 5) male.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slightly dark underparts and wing coverts, some scattered black<br />
feathers on the face, throat and breast. 2cy (EURING 5) male.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2cy (EURING 5) male. This individual is very "brownish"<br />
(almost female-like), but inner greater coverts (moulted) are<br />
clearly grey. Also, S5 is replace by accident and it shows a broad<br />
grey fringe in the outer web.</td></tr>
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This year has been remarcable too in my area for several <b>White Storks </b><i>(Ciconia ciconia)</i> sightings. During February we could enjoy some nice flocks, and during March, several lonely individuals turned up in different places.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White CS37, from France. This one likes to spend the day<br />
playing as a traffic radar!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>White Stork</b> and <b>Great White Egret </b><i>(Casmerodius albus) </i>(not<br />
kidding!, although it looks like Cattle Egret...). Two nice white<br />
big birds not easy to see together in my area.</td></tr>
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Raptor's passage has been quite nice too in Central Catalunya, with about +200 <b>Short-toed Eagles </b><i>(Circaetus gallicus)</i>, 9 <b>Marsh Harriers </b><i>(Circus aeruginosus)</i>, 90 <b>Black Kites </b><i>(Milvus migrans)</i>, 7 <b>Red Kites </b><i>(Milvus milvus) </i>(one of the best springs for both Kites in the area, already), +30 <b>Common Buzzards </b><i>(Buteo buteo), </i>20 <b>Sparrowhawks </b><i>(Accipiter nisus) </i>and 4 <b>Goshawks </b><i>(Accipiter gentilis). </i>This very nice adult (EURING 8; aged thanks to a retained secondary) male <b>Sparrowhawk </b>had stopped to feed while I was doing a ringing session. We caught it after it had fed recently (it had the crop completely full!), and it left straight away after releasing.<br />
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This dates are also very good for migrating <b>Penduline Tits </b><i>(Remiz pendulinus). </i>Around my area in central Catalunya it can be considered a regular migrant, occasional wintering and rare breeding species. Most of migrants and wintering individuals fit with central European populations, both on phenology and moult extension. Ringing recoveries are also proving that, and this spring I could catch another central European bird: this time from the Czech Republic. Interestingly, the day it was caught another bird showed up nearby, and at least 2 other individuals appeared in Osona county, also in central Catalunya but where the species is much more scarce.<br />
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Ducks are another colourful migrants that are passing these days. So far, the warm and sunny days have provided just a few interesting wildfowl in my area, like this two <b>Shovelers </b><i>(Anas clypeata) </i>that appeared on February, or this mixed flock of two <b>Shovelers </b>and 4 <b>Garganeys </b><i>(Anas querquedula)</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This 6 birds spent the whole day resting at l'Agulla Park, a<br />
public park in the surroundings of Manresa city. Several hundred <br />
people visited the lake tha day, I wonder how many people<br />
actually realised of the beuaty of this birds...!</td></tr>
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<b>Water Pipits </b><i>(Anthus spinoletta) </i>are in heavy body moult between late February and March, and they gather in certain places, sometimes river shores half-way to the mountains, that are still mostly covered by snow.<br />
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This nice <b>Mallard </b><i>(Anas platyrhynchos) </i>was unexpectedly caught in the net that I had for the <b>Water Pipits</b>!<br />
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<b>Little Ringed Plovers </b><i>(Charadrius dubius) </i>have also arrived!, and while some are still passing by, some breeding pairs are already taking their breeding territories.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Male, already defending last year's territory in the <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) female, caught at night-ringing! At least<br />
one bird ringed two years ago seems to be back to the area,<br />
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The first <b>Hoopoe </b><i>(Upupa epops) </i>that arrived this year in my main ringing station at <i><a href="http://aiguamollbobila.blogspot.com.es/" target="_blank">l'Aiguamoll de la Bòbila</a> </i>was actually a female, and indeed it arrived very early in February, so probably had been wintering closeby, where an individual had been seen.<br />
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Another species that is also ready for breeding is the <b>Grey Heron </b><i>(Ardea cinerea)</i>, already fixing nests and soon busy with incubation.<br />
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On the other hand, <b>Little Owls </b><i>(Athene noctua) </i>are starting to be more vocal, and you may see some 'guarding' the nesting areas, even in the middle of the day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this picture was taken in mid-February, doesn't it look like<br />
totally spring already? ;)</td></tr>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-52839784433733342942017-02-28T13:05:00.000-08:002017-03-10T06:34:38.510-08:00Winter's summary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
January started in a quite exciting way with many good birds being found in the Ebre Delta; and indeed this has been so far a very good rarities year in Catalunya. I could not resist the temptation to go to the Ebre Delta to see the <b>Sociable Lapwing </b><i>(Vanellus gregarius) </i>and the <b>Lesser Yellowlegs </b><i>(Tringa flavipes)</i>...<br />
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After that, the winter kept as it was, with very few or actually no individuals of winter species like <b>Siskin </b><i>(Spinus spinus)</i>, <b>Brambling </b><i>(Fringilla montifringilla) </i>or <b>Hawfinch </b><i>(Coccothraustes coccothraustes)</i>; three typical irruptive wintering species that can vary quite much in numbers within years. Anyway, it looks like it has been a good winter season for both <b>Dunnock </b><i>(Prunella modularis)</i> and <b>Robin </b><i>(Erithacus rubecula)</i>, and while it was initially quite bad for <b>Song Thrushes </b><i>(Turdus philomelos)</i>, it has appeared to be quite good during January (all of this based on local observations in central Catalunya!).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">I had never tried a Macro (100mm) lens for birds,<br />
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Indeed, a species that has been clearly quite common through this winter was <b>Jack Snipe</b><i> (Lymnocryptes minimus), </i>with several sightings of several individuals together in many places. We've had some wintering individuals for the last few years in <i>l'Agulla</i> Park, but never so many as this year, since we had 6 wintering individuals.<br />
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Some interesting trapped birds follows.<br />
This <b>Little Owl </b><i>(Athene noctua) </i>was actually a recapture from last summer (July 2016), when it was caught as a breeding individual in the same place. It was very interesting to have an 'age-proved' Little Owl in order to improve the moult and ageing knowledge of the species.<br />
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The <b>Great Spotted Woodpecker </b><i>(Dendrocopos major) </i>is a very scarce visitor in my local wetland, and indeed it's even more unlikely to have one in the nets, since they usually climb on higher parts of the trees. So it was a great surprise to get this one, a very nice second-year (EURING 5) female; with<br />
all primary coverts and most of greater coverts and alula unmoulted.<br />
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<b>Dartford Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia undata) </i>are rather common in certain areas, but these places are usually very open, with low bushes, and they are usually not easy to catch with nets. So this adult (EURING 6) male was a very appreciated bird during my CES at Montserrat Mountain.<br />
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So far it has been a quite good winter for <b>Reed Buntings</b><i> (Emberiza schoeniclus)</i>, with more than 280 ringed in the area where I've been working the last winters. This year I had three foreign recoveries (1 from Finland and 2 from France), and I already got the information from the French birds; both ringed during last autumn (2016), one of them just 15 days befire I caught it!, and both from SE France. Also, I received the information corresponding to one of my birds (ringed during November 2014) that was caught at Darmsatd (Germany) during October 2016. Quite interesting stuff!<br />
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After having examined the postjuvenile moult extension in quite many Reed Buntings, I think I can safely state that this female is the one with the less extensive moult I have ever seen, with the three outermost greater coverts unmoulted! (bad picture with the phone and flash...)<br />
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The <b>Black-headed Gull </b><i>(Chroicocephalus ridibundus) </i><a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2015/03/gulls-in-bcn-city.html" target="_blank">ringing project in Barcelona city</a> continued this winter, with our record of captures, thanks to a very good day of 15 individuals caught. Check for blue colour-rings!!<br />
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Several Black-headed Gulls have appeared with foreing rings this year, like this one from Denmark that was seen in the area already on February 2012, but no more sightings until this year!<br />
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Also related to Gulls, I could spend some very interesting afternoons in an old factory at <i>Roda de Ter (Osona)</i> with Martí Franch, and we actually managed to see some interesting Gulls for the area. Among the (roughly) 2000 <b>Yellow-legged Gulls </b><i>(Larus michahellis) </i>that regularly go to roost there, we found 3 <b>Herring Gulls </b><i>(Larus argentatus) </i>(a first-winter, a second-winter and an adult) and at least 2 <b>Caspian Gulls </b><i>(Larus cachinnans)</i>, plus to possible hybrids with some <i>cachinnans </i>part on them. Also, around 15 <b>Lesser Black-backed Gulls </b><i>(Larus fuscus) </i>were present, but that's a regular species there. All pictures are taken with the phone through the scope...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Pale first-winter <b>Lesser Black-backed Gull </b><i>(Larus fuscus) </i>(left) and 1w <b>Yellow-legged </b><i>(Larus michahellis) </i>(right)</td></tr>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-5161320200016012762017-01-12T13:42:00.000-08:002017-01-12T13:42:10.299-08:00Start in Sweden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This time I had my New Year's celebration in Sweden, many thanks to Ingela to make it possible!!<br />
We visited Värmland, a truly different view of what I was used as Sweden so far (I had only been around the Falsterbo peninsula), and with many similarities from what I remember from the trip in Finland during 2016. But of course that was in summer, and now the temperatures were 'a bit' lower, reaching a day of -14ºC, and the day was rather short.<br />
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The first thing we did, still in 2016, was a bit of <i>twitching</i>. One of the 240 <b>Siberian Accentors </b><i>(Prunella montanella) </i>seen in Europe during this last autumn had been seen daily in a feeding place in Lindesberg (more or less in the middle of Sweden), so we went to see it. A part from being a very nice bird, it sort of motivated me to see one in this year, after this episode that who knows if we will ever experience again...<br />
On the way there, the first flocks of <b>Waxwings </b><i>(Bombycilla garrulus) </i>showed up, and we had some stops to look at them.<br />
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Once there, several birders were already looking for the bird. As I said, it had been seen in a garden with a feeding place; but not visiting the feeding, just hidden in the bushes behind close to the compost place. The bird had been seen briefly earlier, but it had been hidden after that. We had to wait... but it was rather entertaining to check some nominate <b>Bullfinches </b><i>(Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula)</i> that were coming close to the feeding place.<br />
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After quite a long waiting, the <b>Siberian Accentor </b>decided to show up, and let me take some record shots to have as a memory. Indeed, I prefered to look at it and enjoy it; we didn't know if it was going to disappear again!<br />
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The following days, we focused on looking for owls. Indeed, in Finland I had only seen <b>Hawk Owls </b><i>(Surnia ulula). </i>It was an apparently good breeding year (we could notice that seeing 20 Hawk Owls in Norway/Northern Finland without even looking for them, just from the road...), and several individuals have been recorded in places were they are not as usual in central and even southern Sweden, including some Danish records too. Thanks to this, we saw 6 different birds in different days, and some of them were very obliging...<br />
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Watching them from all the angles and sometimes so close facilitated ageing. Tertials pattern seems to be quite realiable, and even possible to asses from a certain distance. Interestingly (but maybe not that surprisingly), we only saw adults in the forest (close to areas where they could be breeding), while 1st winters showed up in more unusual areas for the specias, where they are not even recorded anually.<br />
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One of the first target species that we manage to see well, and that I had actually never seen -after a miss in Finland-, was the <b>Black Grouse </b><i>(Lyrurus tetrix)</i>. First we flushed some individuals that we could see flying away and sitting on the top of some Pine trees in the distance, and although I was quite happy already with that observation, they decided to show much much better. At this time of the year, Black Grouses feed on buds in Birch trees <i>(Betula pendula)</i>, and they can be quite easy to spot from the distance, and usually even from the main roads.<br />
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Finally we could see a <b>Pygmy Owl </b><i>(Glaucidium passerinum)</i>! And also other interesting things for me, like <b>Eurasian Beaver </b><i>(Castor fiber)</i>, <b>Moose </b><i>(Alces alces)</i>, and several other interesting birds. Some birds in the middle of the forest might not be very used to people, allowing us to be very close to them, or even sitting in our hands to eat anything we were offering!, like it happened with this Scandinavian <b>Willow Tit </b><i>(Poecile montanus borealis).</i><br />
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It was very nice too to have good views of nominate <b>Dippers </b><i>(Cinclus cinclus cinclus)</i>, that usually gather in flocks of around 30 individuals due to the ice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Really deep black breast, and they look especially bulky!</td></tr>
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Garden birding, mainly thanks to the numerous feeding stations for birds, can provide with many interesting species and rather big concentrations of birds. And many raritees show up in this places, just like the Siberian Accentor...<br />
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It was very nice and funny to be close to feeding flocks of <b>Waxwings </b><i>(Bombycilla garrulus)</i>. None of them ended up drunk!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (extensive yellow in the tail) male (well defined black<br />bib).</td></tr>
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Already on the 3rd or January, we took the train following the swedish west coast, and we stopped in Vejbystrand to see the <b>Red-necked Stint </b><i>(Calidris ruficollis) </i>that is wintering in the area. After following the one in <a href="http://birdingfrontiers.com/2016/09/29/juvenile-red-necked-stint-in-norway/" target="_blank">Norway</a> and the one in <a href="http://birdingfrontiers.com/2016/10/18/another-red-necked-stint-in-iceland/" target="_blank">Iceland</a>, it was very interesting to see this third first-winter recorded during 2016 in Europe. We had a bit of crappy weather, with a bit of rain and cold winds, but still we managed to see it quite properly. The pictures are just a memory though, but you can see some <a href="https://www.artportalen.se/Image/1694509" target="_blank">very good shots</a> in <a href="http://artportalen.se/">artportalen.se</a>.<br />
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We followed the coast to the souther-western corner, Faslterbo, where we spent two more days. Thanks to Sophie, Lennart, Karin and Emil!<br />
It was very nice to see the area in winter looking, and full of wildfowl that is quite scarce by the times I have been usually there in early autumn. For instance, several <b>Whooper Swans </b><i>(Cygnus cygnus)</i> were around, and a very nice flock of around a hundred <b>Greater</b> <b>Scaups </b><i>(Aythya marila)</i>, together with <b>Tufted Ducks </b><i>(Aythya fuligula) </i>and <b>Common Pochards </b><i>(Aythya ferina)</i> was very interesting to look at in detail.<br />
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We could get quite close views of the flock, especially thanks to the strong winds that pushed them to stay in one of the very few corners protected from the wind. But yeah, it was very cold to stay there for long!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two first-winter male <b>Scaups </b>(bottom left), and three <br /><b>Tufted Ducks.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5 <b>Scaups </b>and 5 <b>Tufted Ducks </b>(including the head below..)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Female <b>Scaup </b>(right) and female <b>Tufted Duck </b>(left).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult <b>Scaup</b> (EURING 4/6), showing well the black in the bill,<br />restricted to the nail.</td></tr>
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And of course, Flommen deserved a visit!<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-49922387458503700732016-12-21T08:37:00.000-08:002017-01-02T12:59:37.112-08:00The winter begins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Even the cold hasn't really arrived, late December it's the actual beginning of what we call winter. If I had to briefly define how the winter is around my area (central Catalunya), it would be something like:<br />
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- good numbers of <b>Robins </b><i>(Erithacus rubecula) </i>and <b>Dunnocks </b><i>(Prunella modularis)</i><br />
<i>- </i>quite good winter for <b>Reed Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza schoeniclus)</i> and for <b>Dartford Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia undata)</i><br />
- low numbers of finches (starting with <b>Chaffinches </b><i>Fringilla coelebs</i>, but especially poor for <b>Siskin </b><i>Spinus spinus</i>, <b>Hawfinch </b><i>Coccohtraustes coccothraustes</i>, and of course <b>Brambling </b><i>Fringilla montifringilla</i>)<br />
- low numbers of thrushes too, especially <b>Song Thrushes </b><i>(Turdus philomelos)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An special <b>Dunnock</b>, my own oldest recovery! Ringed in my<br />
main constant effort ringing site (La Corbatera), the 28th<br />
of December 2012! And back again, for the first session of<br />
the fifth winter season there!!</td></tr>
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These are just impressions that I got from the local birding in the area and several small projects in different localities, and also some information shared with friends. These 'characteristics' of the winter are the ones that make me focuse more or less in one thing or another. For instance, the <b>Siskin feeder </b>at Jaume Tarín's place has very low numbers this year, and we will make much less attempts to ring there. Indeed, after several sessions of more than a hundred Siskins caught, this year it seems that only from 5 to 10 birds are around the area.<br />
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Most of seasonal trends I get every year come from the constant ringing and birding in my main local patch, <i>l'Aiguamoll de la Bòbila</i>. During this year, some interesting new species have been caught in the ringing station, two of them during this autumn: <b>Common Buzzard </b><i>(Buteo buteo) </i>and <b>Goshawk </b><i>(Accipiter gentilis)</i>.<br />
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Ather local project that I have been working with for the last years is the <b>Reed Bunting roosting </b>project. As I said, this year seems to be one of the best winters since I start in 2013, with around 100 birds roosting in the biggest site, and about 70 between the other two roosting sites in the area. With the migrants during October and November, I have ringed more than 300 individuals and recovered a good set of birds from previous years, 3 foreign recoveries (1 Finnish and 2 French), and an interesting amount of individuals caught in different places during the same or different winters.<br />
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Right at half of the season, it is already noticeable the relative high proportion of males caught, but still females are more abundant. Also, it seems that during this season I have trapped more 'unusual sized' birds, with some rather small males and big females. For instance, this small male (pictures below) was only 77mm on wing length!<br />
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<b>Dartford Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia undata) </i>have appeared too in places where they are usually very rare and almost only as migrants, and in quite good numbers in the traditional wintering areas. It was very nice to trap this first-winter (EURING 3) in the Reed Bunting roosting site!<br />
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The <b>Alpine Accentor </b><i>(Prunella collaris)</i> project is still on, and with the collaboration from the Montserrat Mountain Natural Park and the Catalan Ornithological Institute (ICO), this year I have started with colour rings.<br />
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Also, two birds from December 2015 have been found again in the trapping area, which are the first recoveries in the project.<br />
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Talking about nice species, it was nice to trap these two <b>Dippers </b><i>(Cinclus cinclus) </i>on a short trip to the Pyrenees.<br />
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It was very interesting to note the high variability shown on the breast, that was one of the main things that I planned to check. Indeed, according to <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03078698.2010.9674407" target="_blank">Campos <i>et al. </i>2010</a>, breast colouration would not be enough to separate both subspecies that are meant to occur in Iberia (<i>C.c.cinclus </i>-'black-breasted'- and <i>C.c.aquaticus -</i>'red-breasted'-). Both subspecies seem to overlap in most of areas except for Southern Spain, and although Catalunya (Eastern Pyrenees) was not sampled, I expect results to be quite similar to the ones for Central and Western Pyrenees. Also, breast colouration has proved to change with the age, and related to melanin levels. Actually, the bird on the left was aged as an adult (EURING 4) -see below for ageing-, and the one in the right as a first-year (EURING 3). Could they just be variation within <i>aquaticus?</i> At least the first-year seems quite too much reddish-brown for nominate <i>cinclus</i>...<br />
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Ageing is quite easy, and quite useful even in the field. Juveniles have a <b>partial postjuvenile </b>moult involving body and some wing-coverts, but usually being not very extensive (only a few GCs involved). Adults have a <b>complete postjuvenile </b>moult, thus, moulting all feathers. First-winter birds have quite distinct white spots on the juvenile greater coverts and tertials, while adults shows no white or a faint line along the edge on the tip. Note also the primary coverts shape and pattern.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First-year (EURING 3).</td></tr>
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During early December, we went to the Ebre Delta for some days to keep up the tradition. This year it was only Joan and me who went, hope we can still go next year!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The amount of birds there is always amazing! Like this flock of <b>Glossy <br />Ibises </b><i>(Plegadis falcinellus)</i>.</td></tr>
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Among many interesting other birds, it was interesting the amount of <b>Booted Eagles </b><i>(Aquila pennata) </i>around the Delta. It's a regular wintering species in Catalunya, especially in the Ebre Delta, but this year seems to be quite good with several individuals around. Also, several other birds have been reported in other places (see below; map from <a href="http://www.ornitho.cat/">www.ornitho.cat</a>).<br />
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and it seems as it has two fronts of primaries moulted. The iris is pale and the<br />
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This combination of swallows was also quite nice to see, up to 5 <b>Barn Swallows </b><i>(Hirundo rustica) </i>and 3 <b>Sand Martins </b><i>(Riparia riparia) </i>in a +50 <b>Crag Martin </b><i>(Ptyonoprogne rupestris) </i>flock.<br />
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Some birds were especially interesting to see carefully, like this first-winter (EURING 3) <b>Water Pipit </b><i>(Anthus spinoletta)</i>, quite similar to any <b>Rock Pipit </b><i>(Anthus petrosus)</i>. Notice the bill length, clearer rump, very pale legs, rather clean flanks when reaching the belly and general sandy colour, not as greenish-tinged as <i>petrosus </i>(although the colour in the picture is not very easy to appreciate due to light effects). It showed also clean white tips on outer rectrices.<br />
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Or this adult (probably 4cy) <b>Herring Gull </b><i>(Larus argentatus) </i>in a ricefield, when looking for some colour-rings to read.<br />
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We indeed found some interesting colour-rings, in a flock of <b>White Storks </b><i>(Ciconia ciconia) </i>that were feeding in the same area. Apart from some individuals from Germany, 2 others were ringed as a chicks in Catalunya (Flix Nature Reserve). It was a surprise when, once uploaded the information in the <a href="http://marques.ornitologia.org/" target="_blank">Catalan Colour-rings webpage</a>, the last sighting of one of them was mine, from 2011! I saw it breeding in Flix Nature Reserve, so it is quite likely someone has been seen it afterwards since then. It is important to send this kind of information, and to pay attention to ringed birds!<br />
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If last year we had a wintering Brown Shrike <i>(Lanius cristatus)</i>, this year Òscar Pérez found this very nice first-winter <b>Isabelline Shrike </b><i>(Lanius isabellinus)</i> wintering close to <i>La Tancada, </i>being second record for Catalunya (first in 2015!), and first ever in the Ebre Delta. As the <i>cristatus</i>, it is quite a difficult bird to see, showing usually for short times and remaining hidden in dense bushes.<br />
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Talking about interesting wintering stuff, I should mention the <b>White-winged/Siberian Scoter </b><i>(Melanitta (deglandi) stejnegeri) </i>that was found in Alicante. What an incredible finding!! Together with very nice company we went for a trip to see it, and it gave great views. A truly ashtonishing bird, even more when you think on the place were it was, completely alone in a sunny beach in the western Mediterranean.<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-74968194686871104232016-10-31T08:59:00.000-07:002016-11-27T10:50:55.085-08:00Autumn migration in the Western Mediterranean<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Since I came back from Falsterbo I've been ringing in several places, mainly in my local ringing stations, a ringing weekend in Cap de Creus Natural Park in behalf of CCOW (Cap de Creus October Weekend) and a week in Illa de l'Aire (Menorca) joining on the autumn ringing season organized by SOM (</span><a href="http://www.menorcasom.org/" style="text-align: left;">Menorca Ornithological Society</a><span style="text-align: left;">).</span></div>
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If I had to underline two impressions from the beginning of October in my area, I would say about the rather abundance of transaharan migrants on 'late' dates (not really late, but rather late in those numbers), since for instance <b>Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus) </i>were present almost anywhere I went (with water nearby)! Also, I had some very good days of migrating <b>Stonechats </b><i>(Saxicola rubicola)</i>, at least significantly better than last 5 years. Quite a good start back to Catalunya!</div>
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During the CCOW, we set up some nets in <i>Jóncols </i>valley, a dense scrubland, with the biggest bushes and scattered trees following a stream (that carried quite a lot of water due to recent rains!). We were ringing in several locations in the <i>Cap de Creus Natural Park</i>, reaching a total number of 1079 birds ringed. Our team was composed by Roger Jutglà, Xevi Rifà, Bet Font, Helena Rifà, Clara Teixidor and me.</div>
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The most common species in this area, as migrating birds, are <b>Robins</b> <i>(Erithacus rubecula)</i> and <b>Blackcaps</b> <i>(Sylvia atricapilla)</i>. <b>Song Thrushes</b> <i>(Turdus philomelos)</i> are also quite abundant, but apparently not in big numbers as in other places in the Mediterranean coast. <b>Sardinian Warblers</b> <i>(Sylvia melanocephala) </i>are also very common, but most of them might be local birds, since it's very common breeding in this kind of habitat, and most of them had quite extensive moults, including several primaries and/or secondaries. And as it happened in Menorca too, some finches with very extensive moults, like this <b>Goldfinch </b><i>(Carduelis carduelis) </i>below.</div>
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This <b>Dartford Warbler</b> <i>(Sylvia undata)</i> was also a nice surprise, probably local too, but we only detected a few individuals around.</div>
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What it was not local for sure, and actually wuite a surprise too, was this first-year female <b>Kingfisher </b><i>(Alcedo atthis) </i>caught while following the stream that runs through the ringing area.</div>
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As special, we caught a <b>Blackcap</b> from Belgium and this <b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> <i>(Phylloscopus inornatus)</i>. In total, at least 5 YBW were detected in the Natural Park through the weekend, and more than 50 have been <a href="http://www.ornitho.cat/index.php?m_id=30182">recorded in Catalunya during this autumn</a>...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>YBW</b> in the scrubland... Not the place where you would look for them<br />
thinking about suitable habitats, but they can be everywhere!!</td></tr>
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Then I moved to<i> Illa de l'Aire</i>, a bit south of Menorca, in the Balearic Islands. The Menorcan Ornithological Society (SOM) runs the standardised autumn ringing season for third year in a row. It's already my fourth time in the island, and first time in autumn. Thank you very much to all who make it possible year by year one more time!!! JJ, Karmele, Romain and me were the ringing team in the Island, with Santi coming for a visit a couple of days. We had a great time!, and a lot of interesting birds...!</div>
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As in <i>Cap de Creus</i>, but especially more here, <b>Robins </b><i>(Erithacus rubecula) </i>are the commonest migrants in the island. Indeed, this year turned out to be a very good season; already at Falsterbo when I was there and in ringing campaings in Catalunya and in the Balearics too.<br />
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The season it's been good also for <b>Song Thrushes </b><i>(Turdus philomelos) </i>and <b>Dunnocks </b><i>(Prunella modularis)</i>, although the latter is caught and seen in few numbers in the island. And sadly, a few Dunnocks were the closest I could get to a Siberian Accentor...</div>
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Other Thruses were also seen or caught, like some <b>Redwings </b><i>(Turdus iliacus) </i>on migration, a <b>Mistle Thrush </b><i>(Turdus viscivorus) </i>ringed, which was the first ringed in the island during autumn, and quite a lot of migrating <b>Blackbirds </b><i>(Turdus merula)</i>, with days with more than 20 individuals around the island.</div>
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It has not been the best year for <b>Firecrests </b><i>(Regulus ignicapilla)</i>, but still are rather common migrants on this dates. <b>Goldcrests </b><i>(Regulus regulus) </i>have been quite rare this season, I haven't seen any actually...</div>
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Best birds were a <b>Lesser Whitethroat </b><i>(Sylvia curruca) </i>and another <b>Yellow-browed Warbler </b><i>(Phylloscopus inornatus)</i>, both rarities but regularly caught in the island; especially <i>curruca</i>, which is caught almost anually in both spring and autumn seasons.</div>
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Once the campaign was finished and I was back to my area in central Catalunya, good numbers of both <b>Black Redstarts </b><i>(Phoenicurus ochruros) </i>and <b>Reed Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza schoeniclus) </i>were passing.<br />
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Visiting almost daily my local patch, it was a nice surprise to find a flock of 10 <b>Penduline Tits </b><i>(Remiz pendulinus) </i>one day in the evening, that for sure arrived that same day. Minutes after I had a net up to target them, since they are rather scarce in the area and ringing them has provided a lot of interesting recaps between areas, and a rather high rate of foreign recoveries. Indeed, we caught quickly 9 out of 10 Penduline Tits around, since the last one was bouncing on the net but always sneaky enough to scape. This had already happened to my one with an <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/squeezing-winter.html">Italian Penduline Tit </a>in the same place, so we extracted the others and left that one alone. In the next round it was caught, and it was actually carrying a French ring!!<br />
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Being a first-year (EURING 3) it had to be ringed this same year. The recovery information has been quick (thank you Raül for the quick information flux), and the bird was ringed 13 days before, 435 km away, in <i>Les Iles, Chateauneuf-sur-isere</i> (check map below). It's already the third recap I get in my place from birds from this area between SE France and NW Italy!<br />
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And, as so many <b>Yellow-browed Warblers </b>were being seen everywhere, I was especially motivated to find one in my area. After quite disappointing hours searching in several days and several places, I could hear and see one at the same spot where I saw the last in the area, <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/stroke-of-luck.html">two years ago</a>. </div>
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Birds can be caught not only during the day, so also during the night. Some groups are actually much easier to trap overnight, some groups as interesting as the waders. And although spend the whole night catching birds can be quite hard while working in an autumn ringing season, we dedicated some effort to catch some birds at Falsterbo.<br />
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During the first night we went out for some waders we had quite high sea level, which difficulted putting up the nets on the beach as we usually do. We only could manage to set up two nets on a line, one of them starting from the beach and towards the sea. We caught more than 30 birds, with a nice combination of species, which reminded us that sometimes, even with difficulties (high water levels, wind or whatever), it's worth to give a try!!!<br />
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We caught several species in the different ringing nights, such as:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First-year <b>Common Ringed Plover </b><i>(Charadrius hiaticula)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Red Knots </b><i>(Calidris canutus): </i>adult (EURING 4) above and<br />
first-year (EURING 3) in the bottom. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dunlin </b><i>(Calidris alpina)</i>. This individual in particular had a<br />
ring from Ukraine!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) <b>Sanderling </b><i>(Calidris alba)</i></td></tr>
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Two subspecies of <b>Common Redshank </b><i>(Tringa totanus)</i> in the area: the breeding population of the nominate subspecies, <i>Tringa totanus totanus</i>, and the wintering population of <b>Icelandic Redshanks </b><i>(Tringa totanus robusta). </i>Identification in the field is not easy when both subespecies occur in the area (around September). Measurements are the best criteria (in hand), being <i>robusta</i> larger and much bigger in body size - actually quite different!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Common Redshank </b><i>(Tringa totanus totanus)</i>, first-year <br />
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Apart from the size, some plumage characteristics can be useful too. <i>Robusta </i>redshanks are slightly greyer on the underparts, especially in the head and neck, and less striked. Also, tail pattern is slightly different: more espaced, well-defined black lines in <i>robusta</i>. In the picture below, <i>robusta </i>to the right and <i>totanus </i>to the left.<br />
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There's certaintly very few information on ageing <b>Bar-tailed Godwits</b>. According to Cramp <i>et al. </i>(1983) in <i>The Birds</i><b> </b><i>of the Western Palearctic</i>, adults have a complete moult usually in winter (sometimes started in summer and arrested during migration), and juveniles have a partial postjuvenile moult. Both adults and first winter individuals have a partial pre-breeding moult too. Therefore, flight feathers in first-cycle birds are not replaced until their first summer.<br />
Up to the 2nd summer (3rd calendar-year) birds are not mature for breeding, and thus some 1st summer (2nd calendar-year) individuals are staying over the summer in the wintering grounds. Nontheless, the rest of second-years are meant to migrate north even they apparenly don't breed.<br />
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Even with few birds examined at Falsterbo, it seems like some individuals are clearly more worn and with much more narrow wing-feathers than the others. Pictures and comments below are speculative and based on my opinion, and after reading information from Cramp <i>et al. </i>(1983), Demongin (2016) and Prater <i>et al. </i>(1977) and looking at several pictures on internet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rather 'fresh' individual, with wide primary coverts, inner <br />
primaries and secondaries. In my opinion, an adult (EURING 6).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Worn individual, with narrow primary coverts, inner primaries<br />
and secondaries. Probably a second-year (EURING 5).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of primary coverts wear, shape and pattern (of the <br />
white edge). Adult to the left, second-year to the right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of secondaries and greater coverts on wear, shape<br />
and pattern (of the white edges). Adult to the left, <br />
second-year to the right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPsOs_AmdLTW_stZHaue11S7pYFn0WCdIipjiDMv62Wid44POL7qu9nMQ2PPsvhRcFRAiNbsz9F4V0bHb3KF_7TCOsCczihPcwwsldm_GlhogepV4oC_adV8Otc7GLxNFGq-Wwfb7q7c/s1600/Collageslimis1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPsOs_AmdLTW_stZHaue11S7pYFn0WCdIipjiDMv62Wid44POL7qu9nMQ2PPsvhRcFRAiNbsz9F4V0bHb3KF_7TCOsCczihPcwwsldm_GlhogepV4oC_adV8Otc7GLxNFGq-Wwfb7q7c/s320/Collageslimis1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of tail and upper-tail feathers on wear and shape<br />
and pattern (narrower or thicker barring). Adult to the left, <br />
second-year to the right.</td></tr>
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Sex determination is based on measurements mainly, especially on bill lenght, which is larger in females (see picture below). Also, males are meant to be brighter orange-coloured in summer plumage (Prater <i>et al. </i>1977). If you are interested in the subject, I recommend this 'hightly speculative' but <a href="https://birdingbytrain.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/lets-talk-about-godwits/">very interesting post</a> about Bar-tailed Godwit's bills.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBKiAS2FjaARZwX_AhJnxNBo8j22qoONzsSZT3jVLPwk5Hi4FuKZk1OT8Dumq0G_njUaFxMo-Vyz8E6fRAYivF60PFH7miwnqd5uG3sHQ1olGv4NizP5FGphiAzuX8YQcCdbrP05NUQE/s320/Collageslimis3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side by side, it appears to be quite striking! Male to the left,<br />
female to the right.</td></tr>
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<b>Oystercatchers </b><i>(Haematopus ostralegus)</i> are very beautiful birds!! And there's few information about ageing and sexing too... at least that I was able to find.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First-year (EURING 3) to the left, with dark iris colour,<br />
blackish bill tip, greyish legs (not in the picture) and faint<br />
white collar. To the right, an adult, probably 4+cy (EURING 8)<br />
due to bright iris colour and orbital ring, bill and pinkish legs<br />
(not in the picture).</td></tr>
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According to Cramp <i>et al. </i>(1983), adults have a complete moult while juveniles have a partial postjuvenile moult. 1st-summer (2nd-year) individuals would undergo a complete moult during summer, so, so far, no known ageing criteria in plumage for second and third winter birds is known, only bare parts colouration, which is meant to change progressively from the juvenile to the 4+cy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 8) seen above; whole wing moulted in previous<br />
year, but still rather fresh plumage except for tertials (probably<br />
due to more exposition to wear). Secondaries are wide and with<br />
a white edge on the tip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First-year (EURING 3) seen above; whole wing fresh. Faint<br />
brownish tips to wing coverts and body feathers, not deep black<br />
as in adults, and narrow secondaries without white edge.</td></tr>
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Later on in the season, we go less for wader ringing and more often to catch owls, if it's a good year. I usually leave Falsterbo before good owl ringing nights, so I haven't experienced it properly yet. Anyway, we caught 2 <b>Barnacle Geese </b><i>(Branta leucopsis) </i>during our first 'owling' night, quite a nice surprise!!<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-4527215305090112972016-09-30T14:27:00.000-07:002016-11-27T09:00:27.512-08:00Flommen 2016!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One more autumn season in the Flommen reedbeds, already my 4th!<br />
It's been a rather busy season, with many more birds than the previous ones, and other additional work delayed this post. But finally!!<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Flommen ringing season is over after one of the
best seasons in the 21st century: 4271
birds of 51 species have been ringed in the standardised ringing, above the
reference number of 4258 birds (average 1980-2009). Also, almost 600 birds have
been ringed in extra ringing in the same area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.falsterbofagelstation.se/index_e.html">here</a></span> to
check the seasonal total at Flommen for this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Since the beginning of the season it was
noticeable the high density of different insect species in the reeds,
significantly more than the previous seasons. The amount of food for many
species is probably one of the reasons that explain this year’s high numbers,
but also many species, such as <b>Eurasian Reed Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus) </i>and <b>Reed Bunting</b> <i>(Emberiza schoeniclus)</i>, both local breeding species trapped in the
beginning of the season, have shown quite good breeding success with many
juvenile birds recently fledged being trapped and ringed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The weather has been quite good through the
whole season, with a lot of sunny and rather warm days during most of August
and September, and therefore it was in very few days when the ringing was
cancelled, mostly due to too strong winds. Then, and in combination with the
amount of food and the apparently good breeding season, one could expect a good
total number of birds trapped we had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In order, the most common species this season
have been <b>Reed Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus
scirpaceus) </i>with 1300 individuals ringed, <b>Sedge Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) </i>with 556,
<b>Willow Warbler</b> <i>(Phylloscopus trochilus) </i>with
399, <b>Chiffchaff</b> <i>(Phylloscopus collybita) </i>with
309 and <b>Blue Tit</b> <i>(Cyanistes caeruleus) </i>with
306.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As has been happening during the last few
years, some species don’t reach the average number par season (1980-2009). The
ones with more obvious difference, and also as it has been the case for the
last few years, are <b>Reed Warbler</b> (seasonal total: 1300, average: 1940) and
<b>Willow Warbler</b> (seasonal total: 399, average: 628). Other species clearly below
the average were <b>Barn Swallow</b> <i>(Hirundo
rustica) </i>(seasonal total: 68, average: 140) and <b>Sand Martin </b><i>(Riparia riparia)</i> (seasonal total: 14,
average 43), due to the lack of roosting in the ringing area. For the rest of
species below the reference number both the seasonal total and the average are
rather close, <b>Sedge Warbler</b> being an example (seasonal total: 556, average:
588).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On the other hand, some species were caught in
very high numbers comparing to the average 1980-2009. <b>Chiffchaff</b> <i>(Phylloscopus collybita) </i>is probably the
most extreme case (seasonal total: 309, average: 14), but it has been
particularly good for other ‘September species’ too, like <b>Blue Tit </b><i>(Cyanistes caeruleus) </i>(seasonal total:
309, average 80), <b>European Robin</b> <i>(Erithacus
rubecula)</i> (seasonal total: 203, average 75), <b>Dunnock </b><i>(Prunella modularis) </i>(seasonal total: 134, average 54), <b>Winter Wren</b>
<i>(Troglodytes troglodytes) </i>(seasonal
total: 126, average 40) and <b>Reed Bunting</b> <i>(Emberiza schoeniclus) </i>(seasonal total:
289, average: 212). Early species in the season like <b>Common Whitethroat</b> <i>(Sylvia communis) </i>(seasonal total: 50,
average 34), </span><b>Marsh Warbler </b><i>(Acrocephalus palustris) </i>(seasonal total: 151, average 92) and <b>Icterine Warbler</b> <i>(Hippolais
icterina) </i>(seasonal total: 7, average 2) showed high numbers compared to
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Using walk-in-traps, we caught the anual record number of <b>Water Rails </b><i>(Rallus aquaticus)</i>, from all ages, including this very little black ones!!</div>
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Walk-in-traps are also very useful to catch other 'walking' species, such as Pipits. In fact, by placing them on different places, especially on the beach or the trail in the reedbed, we caught several <b>Tree Pipits </b><i>(Anthus trivialis)</i>, <b>Meadow Pipits </b><i>(Anthus pratensis)</i>, a <b>Red-throated Pipit </b><i>(Anthus cervinus) </i>and up to 11 <b>Rock Pipits </b><i>(Anthus petrosus) </i>- only 3 of the latter species had been ringed at the Bird Observatory the last 50 years!!-.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Tree Pipit </b><i>(Anthis trivialis)</i>, <b>Rock Pipit </b><i>(Anthus petrosus)</i> and <b>Meadow Pipit</b><br />
<i>(Anthus pratensis)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st-year (EURING 3) <b>Rock Pipit </b><i>(Anthus petrosus)</i>. Note the<br />
moult limit in median coverts, inner GCs and tertials; usually<br />
found in the MeC or with 1-2 inner GCs and sometimes possible<br />
to detect in the field.</td></tr>
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Most unusual birds this season have been: a <b>Shoveler</b> <i>(Anas clypeata)</i>, a breeding female in the area that is only the
second individual ringed of this species in the last 36 years, and first ever
for Flommen, a juvenile <b>European Stonechat </b><i>(Saxicola
rubicola)</i> – first ever for Flommen - , a juvenile <b>European Cuckoo</b> <i>(Cuculus canorus)</i> – 2<sup>nd</sup> ever
in the standardised ringing at Flommen -, a first-year female <b>Marsh Harrier</b> <i>(Circus aeruginosus) </i>– 2<sup>nd</sup>
ever in standardised and for the Bird Observatory -, a first-year female
<b>Blackbird</b> <i>(Turdus merula) </i>– 3<sup>rd</sup>
ever for the standardised ringing at Flommen -, 30 <b>Penduline Tits </b><i>(Remiz pendulinus)</i>, 23 ringed and 7<span style="color: red;"> </span>recovered from other places, 2 <b>Great Reed Warblers</b> <i>(Acrocephalus arundinaceus), </i>the 57<sup>th</sup>
ringed at Flommen since 1980 and a recapture from another place in Sweden, 3
<b>Jack Snipes</b> <i>(Lymnocryptes minimus),</i> 3 <b>Spotted Crakes</b> <i>(Porzana porzana) </i>and a <b>Great Cormorant </b><i>(Phalacrocorax carbo).</i></div>
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But the rarest bird was, without any doubt, the putative <b>Stejneger's Stonechat </b><i>(Saxicola maurus stejnegeri) </i>(still not confirmed genetically). Don't miss the <a href="http://i1.wp.com/birdingfrontiers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Stejneger%E2%80%99s-Stonechat.002-e1474986185244.jpeg">comparision made by Björn Malmhagen</a> about the Flommen bird and an Stejneger's Stonechat from China; in the same dates the year before and same age/sex combination (first-year female).</div>
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But the amount of migrating birds is what it really makes Falsterbo special. Some days, the sky gets full of migrating birds, usually calling energically (and making a lot ot sound!). You can get huge flocks of many species, with literally thousands of birds flying over!!! This year I stayed longer than other years, until the beggining of October, and those days are especially good to get great numbers of <b>Woodpigeons </b><i>(Columba palumbus) </i>in migration.</div>
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We had also a very special evening with several thousand <b>Cranes </b><i>(Grus grus)</i> over the peninsula, this picture is taken from the door of the station.</div>
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But you can really see a lot of species migrating in huge numbers. That evening, for example, hundreds of <b>Song Thrushes </b><i>(Turdus philomelos) </i>and <b>Mistle Thrushes </b><i>(Turdus viscivorus)</i> were migrating too. And these <b>Redpolls </b><i>(Carduelis flammea)</i>, that somehow look like flying fish!</div>
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Such a rather common species across Europe as <b>Sparrowhawks </b><i>(Accipiter nisus) </i>can be seen in huge amounts at Falsterbo. For instance, 21921 individuals have been counted in migration during 2016's season. Check <a href="http://www.falsterbofagelstation.se/index_e.html">Falsterbo Bird Observatory's webpage</a> and click on 'Migration counts' to check numbers for other species.</div>
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Another great time and experience in such an amazing place. Thanks to everyone one more time: Timmy, Per, Lennart, Karin, Sophie, Caroline, Ingela, Oscar, André, Peder, Björn, Jonas, Johan, Juho, Paul, Kat, PG, M<span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">åns</span></span>, <i>et al.</i>... vi ses sen!!</div>
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During the trip to Finland we crossed the border to Norway to spend some days in Varanger. The whole place is very nice... a must-see!! Thanks to Anders Maeland for some birding tips around the fjord.<br />
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Varangerfjord is about 100 km long, and it has birds everywhere. There are several places to go, but actually you'll see many birds just stopping the car wherever and looking around.</div>
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Waders are particularly numerous in the shores, but only few species breed there, like <b>Oystercatchers </b><i>(Haematopus ostralegus)</i>.<br />
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If you drive inside the tundra, you expect poor wildlife richness for being such a plan and apparently monotonous habitat...<br />
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But the amount of breeding species is quite impressive!, and very nice especially if you are used to see them only in migration or in winter, as it happens with the waders. <b>Golden Plovers </b><i>(Pluvialis apricaria)</i> are easy to spot in several places showing their fantastic breeding plumage.<br />
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<b>Whimbrels </b><i>(Numenius phaeopus) </i>are also found in the tundra, and <b>Dunlins </b><i>(Calidris alpina) </i>and <b>Common Snipes </b><i>(Gallinago gallinago) </i>are common in small ponds, where you can also find <b>Jack Snipe </b><i>(Lymnocryptes minimus) </i>sometimes.<br />
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In shallow pools it is also possible to see <b>Red-necked Phalaropes </b><i>(Phalaropus lobatus) </i>in breeding plumage, in which the female has brighter and more colourful plumage thant males, as it happens with Dotterels.<br />
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<b>Arctic </b><i>(Stercorarius parasiticus) </i>and <b>Long-tailed Skuas </b><i>(Stercorarius longicaudus) </i>are also common in the tundra, but as well very easy to spot on the sea from many places. I didn't know that Long-tailed Skuas hunt hovering over the tundra, as Kestrels would do... It's very nice to see them doing it!<br />
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Talking about raptors, if you are lucky you'll find a <b>Gyr Falcon </b><i>(Falco rusticolus) </i>sitting on a rock, waiting for the best chance to hunt a <b>Willow Grouse </b><i>(Lagopus lagopus) </i>or a distracted wader. But the actual kings of the region are <b>White-tailed Eagles </b><i>(Haliaeetus albicilla)</i>!<br />
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<b>Red-throated Pipits </b><i>(Anthus cervinus) </i>are more common close to the coastline, in grasslands. They can be very tame!!<br />
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Also inland, there are some lakes and marshes were you can see <b>Long-tailed Duck </b><i>(Clangula hyemalis) </i>and breeding <b>Divers</b>, especially <b>Red-throated </b><i>(Gavia stellata)</i>. <b>Whooper Swans </b><i>(Cygnus cygnus) </i>are also easy to spot!<br />
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Back to the fjord shores, <b>Common Eiders </b><i>(Somateria mollissima)</i> are very common everywhere. Also <b>Black-throated </b><i>(Gavia arctica)</i> and <b>Red-throated Divers </b><i>(Gavia stellata) </i>are common at the sea. We also saw 5 <b>Great Northern Divers </b><i>(Gavia immer)</i>, which is an interesting amount for the area.<br />
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Skuas, waders... and thousands of <b>Kittiwakes </b><i>(Rissa tridactyla) </i>are flying around all the time. Is actually very impressive!<br />
Most of Kittiwakes in the fjord are breeding in Ekker<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ø</span></span>y cliffs. The breeding colony is actually amazing! And it truly deserves a visit...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some <b>Razorbills </b><i>(Alca torda) </i>were quite close to the Kittiwake<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Vard<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">ø</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">harbour you'll see some nests in buildings as well! </span></td></tr>
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Another bird breeding colony that has de be visited is Horn<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.4px;">ø</span>ya, a rocky island close to Vard<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.4px;">ø</span>. To get there you have to take a boat, and tickets are sold at the Turism Information Office. Once you get there, you'll get surprised on the amount of birds everywhere, and the sound they make...<br />
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<b>Common Guillemots </b><i>(Uria aalge) </i>are the commonest species in the colony. They are everywhere!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Brunnich's Guillemots </b><i>(Uria lomvia) </i>are quite restricted<br />
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<b>Atlantic Puffins </b><i>(Fratercula arctica) </i>are also quite common, and at this time of the year they give very nice photographing opportunities while are carrying fish to the nest.<br />
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Other species in the colony are <b>Kittiwake </b>and <b>European Shag </b><i>(Phalacrocorax aristotelis)</i>...<br />
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Apart from Horn<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.4px;">ø</span>ya it is worth to keep following the coast to the North, going to Hamninberng. From the road you'll have views to several small bays which are usually very good for Divers, like <b>White-billed Diver </b><i>(Gavia adamsii), </i>but we actually saw one from Hamninberg. And apart from the quite huge flocks of both <b>Red-breasted Mergansers </b><i>(Mergus serrator) </i>and <b>Goosanders </b><i>(Mergus merganser)</i>, it is also quite good for <b>King Eiders </b><i>(Somateria spectabilis)</i>.<br />
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From Hamninberg village, the seawatching is impressive! We saw many birds from several nice species, including hundreds of <b>Fulmars </b><i>(Fulmarus glacialis)</i>, <b>Great Skuas </b><i>(Stercorarius skua)</i>, <b>Manx Shearwaters </b><i>(Puffinus puffinus)</i>, <b>Common, Brunnich's </b>and <b>Black</b> <b>Guillemots</b>, <b>Razorbills, Atlantic Puffins, Kittiwakes, Gannets</b>... and also a <b>Harp Seal </b><i>(Pagophilus groenlandicus)</i>. We also saw an unidentified Whale and several <b>Harbour Porpoises </b><i>(Phocoena phocoena)</i> inside the fjord.<br />
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On the scruby areas, especially in the one close to Hamninberg, <b>Red-spotted Bluethroats </b><i>(Luscinia svecica svecica) </i>are quite easy to find, and sometimes, very tame!!!<br />
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<b>Redpolls </b><i>(Carduelis flammea) </i>are usually in all scruby places, and this one close to Hamninberg is meant to be one of the best spots for <b>Arctic Redpoll </b><i>(Carduelis hornemanni).</i><br />
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After seeing most of the fjord, we drove south, on the way to Kirkeness, to stop at the Neiden's church; a place which is mentioned by many trip reports as a good site for <b>Arctic Warbler </b><i>(Phylloscopus borealis).</i><br />
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From the same place we also saw this moulting <b>Short-eared Owl </b><i>(Asio flammeus)</i>, several <b>Woodcocks </b><i>(Scolopax rusticola)</i> and one of the several <b>Hawk Owls </b><i>(Surnia ulula) </i>we saw...</div>
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We spotted up to 20 <b>Hawk Owls, </b>from the car!! They use the cables a lot, and from the distance, they look like a Swallow! ;)<br />
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Early in July most of juveniles are flying around already, but they are still begging and are quite easy to detect. I have to say also that, apparently, it was a very good breeding year for the species!<br />
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Just after coming back from Greece, I went on a two weeks trip to Finland and Varanger (Norway) with Bernat Ferrer, Emil Lundahl and Erik Sjögren. We had very nice and succesful days!!<br />
I will split the trip in two posts, Finland, where we spend most of the days, and the visit in Norway -mainly in Varangerfjord-, in another blogpost.<br />
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Thanks to Bernat Garcia, Miquel Àngel Garcia and Àlex Mascarell, among others, for the information provided to prepare the trip. Special thanks to Roni Väisänen for all his tips, and also for the very nice ringing which we could join, together with Petteri Lehikoinen and Jarkko Santaharju.<br />
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In total we drove more than 6000 km along the two countries, what allowed us to enjoy very different habitats and places, and to see a lot of species! When planning the trip is it worth taking in mind that some species are more or less easy depending on the year's breeding success, such as Owls and Grouses. Indeed, we missed most of the species in these two species, except for one Owl species...</div>
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It is also worth taking in mind the dates, since some species are late migrants arriving in late June (i.e. Arctic Warbler <i>Phylloscopus borealis</i>), but on those dates other species are stopping singing and are harder to detect (i.e. Three-toed Woodpecker <i>Picoides tridactylus</i>).</div>
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Most of the country, especially the South, Central and several regions in the North, are forests, usually a mixture of <b>Pines (</b><i>Pinus sp.)</i>, <b>Firs </b><i>(Abies sp.)</i> and <b>Birch trees </b><i>(Betula pendula)</i> and several other deciduous forest trees.</div>
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Forest birding in Finland can be quite hard sometimes, as usually there are very low densities and not many species... Anyway, you will find <b>Redwings</b> <i>(Turdus iliacus)</i>, <b>Fieldfares</b> <i>(Turdus pilaris)</i> and <b>Bramblings</b> <i>(Fringilla montifringilla)</i> as common species of some interest for South European birdwatchers.</div>
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It is also very nice with the breeding waders in all sort of wet places. I was quite excited to see the waders in the breeding grounds, and especially curious to see them singing from the top of a tree -like the <b>Wood Sandpiper </b><i>(Tringa glareola)</i> below-, or doing the display flights.<br />
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But of course, <b>Red-flanked Bluetails</b> <i>(Tarsiger cyanurus</i>) are the star species in the old spruce Finnish forests, sometimes also find with <b>Greenish Warblers </b>(<i>Phylloscopus trochiloides</i>). <b><i>Iivaara</i></b> mountain was one of the best forests we visited, including some Bluetails still singing at night time.</div>
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We could join Roni, who is doing a great job with Bluetails!, Petteri and Jarkko during the ringing of an adult male <b>Bluetail</b>. So far one of the highlights of the trip!</div>
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As long as you drive North, road singposts on crossing <b>Reindeers</b> (<i>Rangifer tarandus</i>) become more common. And indeed, Reindeers are found everywhere and usually are quite easy to spot from the road.<br />
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Also <b>Moose</b> <i>(Alces alces)</i> crossing is usually singposted, and although it took a few days -and a lot of kms!-, we finally saw some. They are huge!</div>
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<b>Variable Hare</b> (<i>Lepus timidus</i>) is also a common mammal usually seen from the road, and although it is not signposted, take care when driving to don't crash with any! The one below it's quite young, adults are quite big!!</div>
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While crossing the Arctic Circle at Rovaniemi, actually in Santa's resort by the road, I was not expecting a colony of <b>Sand Martins</b> <i>(Riparia riparia)</i> in a buolding under construction. Maybe they also help Santa for Christmas! :)</div>
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Already in Lapland, the landscape started to change to more open areas, and finally only tundra. On our way North we visited several places that can be found on most of the reports, such as Kiilopää mountain, where we could find a male <b>Dotterel</b> <i>(Charadrius morinellus)</i> taking care of his chicks. As it happens with Phalaropes, males and females have the breeding roles exchanged, and females have brighter plumages and leave males alone taking care of the breeding.</div>
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It is nice to see the amount of water everywhere, finding meadows, lakes and marshes everywhere in the whole country; and most of them have routes to walk in. Indeed, most of forests are very wet as well. That makes the perfect scenario for many many mosquitoes to breed... but also for some nice species such as <b>Yellow Wagtails</b> <i>(Motacilla flava)</i>. It was interesting to find, even north of the polar cercle, both <i>flava</i> and <i>thunbergi</i> subspecies breeding, usually at the same areas, and being the latter the commonest.</div>
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Boreal specialities took a bit more of time, but we ended up having quite great views of <b>Siberian Tit</b> <i>(Poecile cinctus)</i> and <b>Siberian Jay</b> <i>(Perisoreus infaustus)</i>.</div>
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<i>Neljan Tuulen Tupa</i> café's feeders were mentioned in several places as a reliable place for<b> Pine Grosbeak</b> <i>(Pinicola enucleator)</i>, and we actually saw them very well there. From the inside of the café, we saw one eating just 1 metre or less from the window...<br />
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We met a group of Dutch birders with who we exchanged information sometimes, and thanks to them we saw our first (out of no least than 20) <b>Hawk Owl</b> (<i>Surnia ulula</i>).</div>
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On the road to Utsjoki, in the Norwegian border, <b>Rough-legged Buzzard</b> <i>(Buteo lagopus)</i> is rather easy to see even from the road. Several lakes are also good for species such as <b>Smew</b> <i>(Mergellus albellus)</i>, <b>Whooper Swan </b><i>(Cygnus cygnus)</i> and <b>Scaup</b> (<i>Aythya marila</i>).</div>
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We checked several places on the way North to Norway looking for <b>Rustic Bunting</b> <i>(Emberiza rustica)</i>, without success, but we managed to see the species in Eastern Finland, on the way south to Helsinki. Seemingly they are declining quite fast...<br />
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The ringing morning was actually on the way south, when we caught the Bluetail, but also another exciting bird... a <b>Booted Warbler </b><i>(Iduna caligata)</i>! We actually had seen that individual on the field the day before, and then we had the chance to have it in our hands and study it properly. Very nice!<br />
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We also passed though <a href="http://www.wildbrownbear.fi/">Wild Brown Bear Centre</a>, in Kuhmo region, where we had booked a night on one of the Bear hides. The whole experience was very nice, seeing two <b>Brown Bears</b> <i>(Ursus arctos)</i> and one <b>Wolverine</b> <i>(Gulo gulo)</i> at very close range!! Sadly bad pictures of the Wolverine due to bad light, but the observation was very good. The whole place was very nice and very worth visiting.</div>
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After that we kept heading South, to <i>Värtsilä</i> area. The weather was a bit rainy, but still we manage to see target species like <b>River Warbler </b><i>(Locustella fluviatilis)</i> and <b>Corncrake</b> <i>(Crex crex)</i>, both very well seen.</div>
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<i>Tohmajärvi</i> lake was our place for <b>Blyth's Reed Warbler</b> <i>(Acrocephalus dumetorum)</i>, a species that I was longing for! And they have a lovely song!<br />
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One of the last places we visited was <i>Siikalahti</i> National Park. When you arrive there you'll find a signpost saying, literally, '<i>the best bird lake in Finland</i>'<i>. </i>The weather was not very nice, but still we saw a family of <b>Grey-headed Woodpeckers </b><i>(Picus canus) </i>just by the parking site. The whole area at night is crazy for <b>Woodcocks </b><i>(Scolopax rusticola)</i>, as most of Eastern Finland.</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-76413874554189337882016-06-30T07:47:00.000-07:002016-07-25T09:54:53.853-07:00EBBA2 - GBBA1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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During this June, and together with Albert Burgas, we spent a week surveying for the <a href="http://www.ebba2.info/">European Breeding Birds Atlas 2 (EBBA2)</a> in Northern Greece, in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.ornithologiki.gr/index.php?loc=en">Hellenic Ornithological Society (HOS)</a> and the <a href="http://www.ornitologia.org/">Catalan Ornithological Institute (ICO)</a>. It was my first time in Greece, and we actually discovered fantastic and very unexpected places. Thank you as well to Danae Portolou for all the coordination efforts, and to all assistants in the Atlas Camp in Kastoria! You were all very nice!!</div>
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North-west from Kastoria village, passing through Nestorio towards the Albanian border, a mountain region suddenly appears. It is a very big and old forest area, with a very nice mix of tree and other vegetation species, that makes a stunning landcape and habitat of many species. Also, almost abandoned villages, grasslands and rocky slopes are sometimes find in the lower parts, and subalpine grasslands and even alpine rocky habitats in the highest places (about 2400 m!).</div>
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One of the commonest passerines in the <b>Red-backed Shrike </b><i>(Lanius collurio), </i>together with <b>Red-rumped Swallow </b><i>(Cecropis daurica)</i>, that can be extremely common and breeding in almost all kind of suitable places. In the subalpine grasslands, <b>Northern Wheatears </b><i>(Oenanthe oenanthe) </i>and <b>Skylarks </b><i>(Alauda arvensis) </i>-picture below- remember me the similar habitat in the Pyrenees.<br />
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But one of the best birds in the area, so far, is the <b>Rock Partridge </b><i>(Alectoris graeca)</i>, that we could see in several occasions.<br />
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The dense, old forests have quite good density of Woodpeckers, among other species. There was quite a lot of death wood on the floor, and almost all dead trunks were holey mainly because of <b>Black Woodpeckers </b><i>(Dryocopus martius).</i><br />
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Among many other typical forest species, Tits were quite common. Below, two pictures of juvenile <b>Willow Tits </b><i>(Poecile montanus)</i>.<br />
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One of the most unexpected things on the trip were, so far, the <b>Brown Bears </b><i>(Ursus arctos)</i>. We had already been told of the regular presence of Bears in the area, but we were not expecting at all to see them...<br />
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... and even less to see up to 6 <b>Brown Bears </b>in a single day! Actually, the commonest mammal... The first we saw was this immature that had probably left the mother recently. We could enjoy it during a long time while it was eating under stones up in the alpine area.<br />
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Amphibians were also quite interesting. We found several <b>Yellow-bellied Toads </b><i>(Bombina variegata)</i> in different places. Such a nice toad, especially if you look at the underparts!</div>
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<b>Alpine Newts </b><i>(Ichthyosaura alpestris) </i>are also very nice! In the picture below, male and female.<br />
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<i>- </i><b>Kella area and Petron lake</b><br />
Kella is a small village surrounded of agricultural areas, abandoned fields and open areas with scattered bush areas and trees.<br />
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<b>Black-headed Bunting </b><i>(Emberiza melanocephala)</i> was the star species for me!<br />
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The area is also very good for <b>Corn Bunting </b><i>(Emberiza calandra) -</i>there's one singing in the background of the video-, <b>Tawny Pipit </b><i>(Anthus campestris)</i>, <b>Short-toed Lark </b><i>(Calandrella brachydactyla)</i>, <b>Northern Wheatear </b><i>(Oenanthe oenanthe),</i> <b>Eastern Black-eared Wheatears </b><i>(Oenanthe melanoleuca) </i>and <b>Little Owl </b><i>(Athene noctua) </i>are also common species in the area.<br />
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Petron lake is a deep lake with dense reedbeds around in the middle of a very dry landscape. The reedbeds are packed with passerines, such as <b>Great Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus arundinaceus)</i>, <b>Reed Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus)</i>, <b>Sedge Warblers </b><i>(Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)</i>, <b>Bearded Reedlings </b><i>(Panurus biarmicus)</i>, <b>Penduline Tits </b><i>(Remiz pendulinus)</i>, <b>Reed Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza schoeniclus)</i>... Also, high density of <b>Little Bittern </b><i>(Ixobrychus minutus) </i>and <b>Pygmy Cormorants </b><i>(Microcarbo pygmaeus)</i>, and several pairs of <b>Ferruginous Duck </b><i>(Aythya nyroca) </i>and other wildfowl.<br />
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Around the lake you can also find some other interesting species such as <b>Lesser Grey Shrikes </b><i>(Lanius minor) </i>and <b>Rock Nuthatch </b><i>(Sitta neumayer).</i></div>
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<b>Eastern Olivaceous Warblers </b><i>(Iduna pallida elaeica) </i>are also common in places with a bit more of vegetation coverage.<br />
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Some non-birds in the area are both <b>Mediterranean Turtle </b><i>(Testudo hermanni) and <b>Greek Turtle </b>(Testudo graeca), </i>the latter in the picture below.<br />
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This <b>Dung Beetle </b>was also funny to follow for a while!<br />
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<b>- Kastoria lake and surroundings</b><br />
Kastoria village, with the lake very close, is a very beautiful place. The star species so far was the <b>Dalmatian Pelican </b><i>(Pelecanus crispus)</i>, in the pictures below, and we also saw some <b>White Pelicans </b><i>(Pelecanus onocrotalus)</i>. It is very nice to look at the sky while walking around the village and see these very big birds soaring; or sitting on a terrase close to the lake while seeing them swimming nearby.<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-14929815609226446632016-05-20T11:18:00.000-07:002016-06-01T11:22:06.185-07:00Spring stuff II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">One of my favourite birds this spring was this cracking adult (EURING 6) male </span><b style="text-align: left;">Blue Rock Thrush </b><i style="text-align: left;">(Monticola solitarius). </i><span style="text-align: left;">Indeed, I had never ringed this species, and it was quite on the top of my 'wish list'...</span></div>
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Sadly I've been quite busy all spring season, being not as much time as I would had liked to be in the field. Nonetheless, I think I have managed to do a lot of exciting stuff!<br />
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I've been quite lucky with <b>Hoopoes </b><i>(Upupa epops) </i>this year. For instance, this retuning bird in my ringing place was very nice: retraps are very interesting in many terms, such the condition as 'proven age' individuals.<br />
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Also this interesting couple, sex determination can be harder with single individuals, but having both sexes side by side, it appears to be easier!<br />
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During a few days I visited Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park, on the right top corner of Catalunya, where a spring ringing campaign is working for the last few years. Check this <a href="http://apps.ornitologia.org/anella/migra">link</a> to see this year's numbers!<br />
The campaign had the best season this year, and I really enjoyed the couple of days I spend there, with some interesting stuff...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult, 4+, (EURING 8) <b>Woodpigeon </b><i>(Columba palumbus)</i>.<br />
Check the retained secondaries, with adult-type pattern.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Little Bitterns </b><i>(Ixobrychus minutus) </i>are also very interesting<br />
and nice, I'll leave ageing comments for another day ;).<br />
Keep in mind that sometimes they are a bit agressive...</td></tr>
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not because they are dangerous, but they can turn a bit<br />
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Matà marshes were very nice, filled up with birds!<br />
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Then <a href="http://www.stephenmenzie.com/">Stephen</a> came for the weekend, and we went straight to another place, close to the ringing campaign, for another ringing morning. We got almost all species we could expect on a reedbed, this <b>Moustached Warbler </b><i>(Acrocephalus melanopogon) </i>was particularly nice for both.<br />
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Stephen's visit was quick, and you'll find more stuff we did in <a href="http://www.stephenmenzie.com/blog/2016/5/1/last-minute-spain">his blogpost</a>, but if I have to say something to resume it I guess it will be the Quail-catching afternoon. Indeed, I've been ringing some <b>Quails </b><i>(Coturnix coturnix) </i>this year, but they will be kept for another blogpost, either mine of Stephen's... :)<br />
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Another thing I want to emphasize was Stephen's reflexion of the richness of birds here, compared to London countryside. Indeed, I have been thinking quite a lot about this... everywhere has it's very important value, even the most unknown or 'crappy' habitats in terms of numbers and diversity. The actual importance of local environmental protection areas is sometimes forgotten... so that's why, even living in a rather poor countryside in terms of birding, were the rare birds are not even national raritees, I am very proud of studying and doing my best to protect my area.<br />
Related to these short thoughts, I had a very nice ringing day in my local patch, that was full of migrants! Again, we are not talking about the Ebre Delta, it's just a small wetland in the middle of very dry fields. Some captures were...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Whinchats </b><i>(Saxicola rubetra) </i>like fences between agricultural<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Reed Warbler </b><i>(Acrocephalus scirpaceus)</i>, the commonest<br />
transaharan passerine so far in the area. This one had an<br />
Italian ring!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Melodious Warblers </b><i>(Hippolais polyglotta) </i>are common<br />
in the area. Remember some have quite obvious white panels<br />
on wing, resembling Icterine in the field...!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Common Whitethroat </b><i>(Sylvia communis)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Garden Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia borin)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Female (above) and male (below) <b>Western Subalpine <br />Warblers </b><i>(Sylvia cantillans iberiae).</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pied Flycatcher </b><i>(Ficedula hypoleuca)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Common Nightingale </b><i>(Luscinia megarhynchos)</i>, very common<br />
in the area. This bird was ringed in 2012! Nightingale is so far<br />
the species with more recoveries year to year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Grasshopper Warbler </b><i>(Locustella naevia)</i>, very scarce<br />
migrant in my place!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adult (EURING 6) <b>Western Orphean Warbler </b><i>(Sylvia <br />hortensis)</i>, only the second record in my area. Although<br />
some breeding pairs can be found rather nearby, it is<br />
very difficult to see them as migrants.</td></tr>
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For the last few years, some <b>Black Redstart </b><i>(Phoenicurus ochruros) </i>pairs have arrived in villages and towns in drylands, quite far from the mountains. I was listening to a male every morning singing from my roof, so I decided to catch it. It was particularly easy, it took less than 2 minutes with tape and a clap net; and it turned to be a very interesting individual. In fact, it could be sexed safely as a male (since it had a very well developed cloaca), but it was a second-year (EURING 5) with no 'male plumage features' at all. An actual '<i>cairii'</i>... Check <a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/black-redstart.html">this post about '<i>paradoxus' </i>Black Redstart</a> for more information about things matter.</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-63283919869783693112016-04-17T10:58:00.000-07:002016-05-23T13:32:35.551-07:00Aquatic work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The last two months I have been ringing mostly in fluvial habitats and wetlands, pushing my waders to destruction! And I've got almost no time to write... Hope I can find some time from now on.<br />
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From the end of February to mid-March I focused to catch <b>Water Pipits</b> <i>(Anthus spinoletta) </i>in one of my local ringing sites in Central Catalunya.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Adult (EURING 6) </span><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Water Pipit </b><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Anthus spinoletta)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2nd-year (EURING 5)</span></td></tr>
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<b>Grey Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla cinerea) </i>are common in the area, and I trapped a few as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Adult (EURING 6) male </span><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Grey Wagtail </b><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Motacilla cinerea)</i></td></tr>
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On the other hand, <b>White Wagtails </b><i>(Motacilla alba) </i>seem to be a bit clever, and I've only got one despite being one of the commonest passerines in the trapping area!<br />
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Other interesting stuff were this <b>Green Sandpiper </b><i>(Tringa ochropus)</i>, an adult (EURING 6):<br />
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And this 2nd-year (EURING 5) <b>Crag Martin </b><i>(Ptyonoprogne rupestris)</i>. Compare with the adult (EURING 6) trapped last year in spring, in the picture below.<br />
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Adult (EURING 6). Notice the lack of pale fringes in GCs</div>
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The 1st of April, friends ringing in the Balearics told me they got 5 <b>Wood Warblers </b><i>(Phylloscopus sibilatrix) </i>early in the morning. We were surprised about the dates, quite early for this species, and we guessed that maybe it was going to be a very good spring for this species like last year was. I got even more convinced about this when I found one in the next netround!, but finally it's been a normal spring, nothing to see with last year. Probably, something happened that night between 31st March and 1st April...<br />
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<b>Bluethroat</b> <i>(Luscinia svecica)</i> season it's been good in my area. As expected, all <i>cyanecula</i>...<br />
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Most male <i>cyanecula </i>show an obvious white spot, but a few</div>
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But on a weekend ringing at Aiguamolls de l'Empordà (NE Catalunya) I trapped this short-winged <b>Bluethroat</b>...</div>
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I went quickly to measure it: wing chord= 72mm, tail length= 50 mm. Being an adult (EURING 6) female, wing measurement it's just on the top limit for <i><b>namnetum</b></i>, but given the tail length plus the very short primary projection, it seems like a very good candidate!</div>
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It's interesting to notice also the amount of blue, and the wide and quite well-defined white spot; that fit with the age but may have some relation with the subspecies (at least the size of the white spot does!).</div>
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The main target that weekend was <b>Aquatic Warbler </b><i>(Acrocephalus paludicola)</i>, and we succeded!!<br />
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The weekend also produced 3 <b>Bitterns </b><i>(Botaurus stellaris)</i> and a <b>Baillon's Crake</b><i> (Porzana pusilla)</i> plus several <b>Spotted Crakes</b> <i>(Porzana porzana)</i> singing around.</div>
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Ah, by the way, I have a new pair of waders to 'destroy'!</div>
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-67297696055683118902016-02-25T05:00:00.000-08:002016-04-18T05:02:25.912-07:00Long-tailed Tit subspecies in the Iberian Peninsula<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are two <b>Long-tailed Tit</b><i> (Aegithalos caudatus) </i>subspecies<i> </i>in the Iberian Peninsula: <i>A.c.taiti </i>and <i>A.c.irbii. </i>The first occurs in central, North and Western Spain and Southern France, while the latter ocurs in Central and Eastern Spain (including most of Portugal). Iberian subspecies distribution is not fully studied, at least as long as I have been able to find in the literature, and some hybridization areas may occur.<br />
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December. <i>A.c.irbii.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A.c.irbii </i>to the left, <i>A.c.taiti </i>to the right.<br />
Check how darker is <i>irbii </i>on cheeks, and how the black stripe<br />
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Apart from the local, sedentary subspecies, there's no information of any foreig retrap in Catalunya (source: <a href="http://www.sioc.cat/">www.sioc.cat</a>), neither in the whole Spanish ringing scheme (source: <a href="http://www.anillamientoseo.org/">www.anillamientoseo.org</a>). There's only the recovery of a Long-tailed Tit ringed in Spain and recovered in France, but no detailed information. The most likely scenario is that it will be a bird ringed close to the French border and recovered on the other side (?). No other references of foreign birds/subspecies in Spain have been found; and actually, apart from the striking White-headed Long-tailed Tit subspecies <i>(A.c.caudatus)</i>, subspecies identification can be very tricky outside of the known distribution range.<br />
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On January I trapped a very striking <b>Long-tailed Tit</b> that attracted my attention since I saw it for first time. I have trapped quite a lot of local birds around Catalunya, and I had never seen any individual similar: very clean white underparts and cheeks and extensive white patch in crown and forehead. In the same net I was lucky enough to catch a local individual, retrap, that was very useful to compare.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "whitish" bird above, the local individual below.</td></tr>
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<i> A.c.caudatus</i> can be quickly ruled out on plumage features, but what about <i>europaeus</i>?<br />
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Checking pictures during the breeding season taken in the breeding range of <i>europaeus</i>, all individuals fit with the features shown by the bird I trapped: extensive white crown, wide white forehead, whitish ("clean") cheeks and underparts...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The presumed <i>europaeus </i>(left) had appearently a stronger bill<br />
than a normal <i>taiti; </i>although I couldn't take proper measurements,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A.c.europaeus</i>, picture by Emil Lundahl taken in Falsterbo <br />
peninsula, Sweden. Note the very clean white underparts,<br />
as the extensive white on crown and forehead and clean cheeks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A.c.europaeus</i>, picture by Emil Lundahl taken in Falsterbo <br />
peninsula, Sweden. Note the clean underparts and very clean,<br />
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Looking to local breeders in other places in Catalunya, especially breeding birds in the Pyrenees, there're no obvious differences with breeding individuals in other places.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Local individual trapped in central Catalonia, age EURING 6 <br />
(because it was a retrap from 2013). <i>A.c.taiti.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wear was for sure not the cause of the whitish plumage, as worn<br />
birds turn to be greyer overall. Breeding individual in central<br />
Catalonia, June. <i>A.c.taiti.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Local breeder in Pyrenees, ringed in July and recaught in<br />
winter. Plumage features fit will all other breeders I have<br />
seen in Catalunya. <i>A.c.taiti.</i></td></tr>
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Despite all of this, only DNA analyses could confirm for sure the subspecies identification... but in the meanwhile, keep looking at the Long-tailed Tits!</div>
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I think February is quite a good time for this short trip to Gallocanta and surroundings. <b>Cranes </b><i>(Grus grus) </i>invade Gallocanta lagoon every winter in flocks of thousands; they eat on the field around the area and they come, at dusk, to sleep on the laggon. That is an scenario that I truly recommend to everybody.</div>
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Around the lagoon there's an extense area of low reedbeds, grasslands and drylands. <b>Hen Harriers </b><i>(Circus cyaneus) </i>are also very common, flying around trying to catch some <b>Calandra Larks </b><i>(Melanocorypha calandra)</i>, <b>Skylarks </b><i>(Alauda arvensis) </i>or <b>Corn Buntings </b><i>(Emberiza calandra), </i>three of the commonest passerine species in the area.</div>
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I was preety enthusiastic about the few <b>Iberian hares </b><i>(Lepus granatensis)</i> we saw, I had only seen <i>europaeus </i>so far and they actually look very different!</div>
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If you are lucky you can also get to see a flock of <b>Black-bellied Sandgrouses </b><i>(Pterocles orientalis)</i>, a rather endangered species in Catalunya, especially for habitat loss, but still with good areas in Aragón.</div>
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Back to the <b>Cranes</b>, the moult strategy is something that has kept me always interested about. It is well known that many non-passerines species have very different moult strategies rather than the usual passerine strategies. In the <b>Eurasian Crane </b><i>(Grus grus)</i>, the <b>postjuvenile </b>moult is partial, and involves some head, neck and body feathers. Thus, ageing first-winter individuals in the field is quite easy: they still have many juvenile feathers.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Advanced' first-winter, the second starting from the right. Still easy to age<br />
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Cramp <i>et al. </i>(1979) also says first-winters have a winter moult, between December and May, which is partial, and also involves head and neck and some body feathers, tertials and upper wing coverts. Then, after their first summer and to the second winter, individuals can still be aged on the juvenile primaries (not moulted yet) and, as they moult slowly, they tend to have more retained feathers in head, neck and body than adults. It is estimated that flight feathers are moulted for first time on the 3rd summer, although some birds started it in the 4rth. After that moult, adults replace flight feathers every 2 to 4 years, depending on different factors like breeding success. The flight feather's moult is simultaneous, like Wildfowl, and it takes a period of a few weeks being flightless. Some strategies for the flightless period are suggested, from moulting at the same time as breeding (already with running chicks) to Cranes reported moulting while hidden in a reedbed.</div>
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Notice the difference in wear in the two adults below. The bird on the left shows no retained head, neck, body feathers, neither wing coverts (except for primary coverts), which suggest it is an adult that has been carrying the same flight feathers for some seasons!</div>
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A trip to Aragón in winter deserves a visit to Gallocanta, but also to Belchite steppes. We had the chance to hear, and rather close, up to 5 <b>Dupont's Larks </b><i>(Chersophilus duponti)</i> singing at dusk. For those interested in going there, remember to be respectful: Dupont's Lark is a really endangered species, especially because it is very sensitive to disturbance and habitat loss.</div>
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But as I was saying, and especially if you haven't gone yet, Gallocanta is a must-see for next winter!<br />
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Marc Illahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700491921000198595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041804736938561169.post-12103166186783085872016-01-31T11:19:00.000-08:002016-02-02T15:31:02.120-08:00Where's the rain?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The next question will be already... 'What does <i>rain</i> mean?'<br />
Maybe I am exaggerating a bit, but seriously, I haven't seen rain for the last half year. Indeed, last time I saw actual rain I was still in Sweden...<br />
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The combination of no rain plus higher temperatures than usual are making this winter very strange. I would had never imagined I would miss those celcius below zero, freezing my hands while putting up nets or whatever, and creating those frozen landscapes...<br />
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Anyway I have got an entire month full of things, so here's a review of the entire January!<br />
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I started the year in my particular piece of paradise, Cuberes, where I trapped some <b>Goldcrests </b><i>(Regulus regulus)</i> - quite cute species to start this year's ringing!<br />
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The following days, back home, I realised I had already ringed most of the wintering individuals of most of the species. This winter it's strange...<br />
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A minimum of 6 <b>Penduline Tits </b><i>(Remiz pendulinus) </i>are one of the most interesting wintering species so far this year. One of them, on the picture below, was already ringed the previous winter.</div>
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As most of birds were ringed already, I started putting my efforts on other stuff. I have been using the clap nets quite usually, focusing of wintering <b>Black Redstarts </b><i>(Phoenicurus ochruros) </i>and <b>Stonechats </b><i>(Saxicola rubicola)</i>. They are common wintering visitors to the fields, and especially related to human and agricultural areas.</div>
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No "<i><a href="http://birdingmarc.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/black-redstart.html">paradoxus</a>" </i>so far, but quite nice adults...</div>
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I have also got time to focuse in not such easy species to catch. With the very determinant collaboration of my mouse, I got 3 <b>Kestrels </b><i>(Falco tinnunculus)</i>.</div>
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Using cages, the first <b>Water Rail </b><i>(Rallus aquaticus) </i>ever ringed in my place was caught, being the species number 90 ringed at the station!</div>
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A few days ago I had trapped this <b>Common Snipe </b><i>(Gallinago gallinago)</i>, ringed in 2014 at the same spot; and the day after the Water Rail and at the same wader place, we got this unexpected <b>Jack Snipe </b><i>(Lymnocryptes minimus)</i>!</div>
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The day after, and following a quite nice sequence of good days, we got this very nice <b>Black Wheatear </b><i>(Oenanthe leucura) </i>on a day off from my usual area. They are seemingly very easy to catch with clap nets..., I think it took us about 10 minutes to spot it, set three traps and get it.<br />
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Nice set of species to start the year, will see what follows...! For the moment, I'll keep waiting for a bit of rain and cold (just to imagine the possibility of some nice winter species showing up...). Will see...!</div>
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