Report from May to July

This report will focus on three month (May; June; July). As we had technical problems with our computer program, we did not manage to continue the monthly reports. The main issue of this report will be the monitoring of the local breeding birds and the first migrant species.

 

Over the three month period, we ringed 5.329 birds. Within these birds we had 4.349 first captures, 781 recaptures (birds ringed this year) and 199 control captures (birds ringed another year or at a foreign bird ringing station).

The main species during the monitoring were, the Reed (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) and Marsh Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) and the Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella naevia).

 

Codes	First capture (e)	Recapture (w)	Control capture (k)
Reed Warbler	624	110	27
Marsh Warbler	200	171	45
Grasshoper Warbler	54	17	3

 

The uncommon species during the breeding bird monitoring were three Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta), one ad. female and one juv. European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), an ad. female Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) and one juv. Long-eared owl (Asio otus).

 

Usually the first migrants arrive around the 15th of July.  The first migrants to arrive are either species taking the eastern migratory way, Marsh Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris), Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) or lesser withethroat (Sylvia curruca), or species which start their migration quite early as the Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenabaenus) or the Great Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus).

 

Another interesting species was an immature Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

 

The most interesting species for this three month period was an adult Blyth’s Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum), which stayed singing from the 27th of June until the 9th of July. It was the second time for this species to be recorded in Luxemburg. The bird was captured twice, once on the 28th of June and a second time on the 6th of July.

 

During the three month period we had two people working daily on the ringing station, furthermore we had several school classes coming to visit the ringing station.

 

 

Thanks as usual to the team for the effort they make in our station .

 

 

Autor: Dave Lutgen

 

Other activitys:

• Start with a new long term monitoring of waterrail -- Dave --> read more
• Hoopoe project at Kaiserstuhl -- Charel --> read more
• Uploading the report of the year 2014 --> read more

 

Visit of our members from the Schlammwissteam:

• Trip to 'Federsee' -- Charel, Dave, Max --> read more
• Birdringing at Kaiserstuhl -- Charel --> read more
• Birdingtrip Turkey -- Charel, Joseph, Raoul --> read more