Migration Watch Rarities

After a night of heavy rain, the trails around the ringing station were very muddy and flooded. Ringing was quite slow for most of the morning, however we did catch a large flock of Coal, Great and Blue Tits (Sortmejse, Musvit, Blåmejse).

Martin, Christina and Knud had a much more exciting day highlighted by many rarities including a Gray Phalarope (Thorshane), one Puffin (Lunde), White-billed and Great Northern Divers (Hvidnæbbet Lom and Islom), Pomarine Skua (Mellemkjove) and a light morph Arcitc Skua (Storkjove).

Photo: Knud Pedersen

The night before Chris and Aurora did not see any birds during their night catching session, but they did find many Natterjack toads (Strandtudse)!

In other news our Blackbird (Solsort) solar powered tracking tags arrived. These will send location data to the International Space Station allowing researchers to track the migratory movements of this species. Once the units have had a good charge in the sun we will begin attaching them to Blackbirds, hopefully this weekend.

Finally the whole team pitched in for the weekly station house cleaning session. Simon claims we have the cleanest bird observatory in Scandinavia, a title we want to keep!

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People: Aurora Gonzalo-Tarodo, Chris Ketola, Martin Grienenberger, Knud Pederson, Amelie Zeller, Simon S. Christiansen,