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Counting Cormorants
This morning we started early again in Grenen for the migratory bird survey. There was hardly any bird migration to be seen today either, so we had to settle for a Great Skua (Stor Kjove) and an Arctic Skua (Almindlig Kjove), just like yesterday. As luck would have it, right after we missed Grenen.
Meanwhile, the other group of us counted the Cormorants (Skarv) at the harbour. About 900 birds were on site and over 200 of them were staying close to the fishing nets. Shortly after sunrise, however, the fishing boats arrived, whereupon the cormorants flew away. Afterwards it was quite quiet. But the Razorbills (Alk) in the harbour basin were very nice to watch. On the way back, we stopped in Fyrbakken and looked at the old fire corb.
At noon we left for the next cormorant survey. Now there were even more than 1100 birds here. It's exciting what kind of data we have been able to collect so far. Afterwards I analyzed the NocMig recording. There was hardly anything going on, as you can see from the trektellen link below.
Since there was not much to do overall, we started playing games again, like Klask. This is also an important and fun part of station life.
People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Rebecca Cheape, Simon Kiesé, Bjørn Laursen, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Kristine og Jan Hjort Christensen
A link to today's observations from volunteers and local observers.
A link to the results of the latest NocMig-Recordings on Trektellen.