Report of the month - July - Naturschutz Ieweschtesyrdall Schlammwiss Birdringingstation

History: The nature reserve "Schlammwiss" was founded in 1982 by the foundation"Hellef fir Natur" (HFN). Afterwards the group "Letzeburger Natur- a Vullenschutzliga" (LNVL) founded the station "Schlammwiss". The station is leaded by the "centrale ornithologique Luxembourg" (COL), a part of the asbl. Natur & Emwelt. Due to the fact that Luxembourg doesn't have its own bird ringing central, we work in cooperation with Royal Belgian Instutitute of Natural Sciences. Therefore, we use rings from the Belgian Museum of Natural Sciences.

Location: The bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" is located in Luxembourg, between the communities Schuttrange & Munsbach. The nature reserve is part of the 375ha big Syrvalley and is an extremely important Natura 2000 zone. The reserve is periodicly flooded due to the Syr river, which is an important generator of biodiversity.

Research area: Around 30ha are used for researche, on a length of 1km and a width of 30-120m. The main area is covered by reeds and wetlands (20ha). Furthermore, the resarch area is subdivided and caracterized by an orchard, a forest, several ponds distributed throughout the reedbed and a purification plant (SIAS). The main techniques employed are mist nets and rail traps in order to realize population estimates (i.e. breeding population, migration, overwintering population) and survival estimates by Capture-Mark-Recapture. There are several projects running in the nature reserve and visitation are possible.

Summary of the ringing activity this month

In July, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 2773 birds of 51 species. This number is subdivided in 1828 E, 891 W and 54 K. 4 bird foreign origin has been caught.

The total amount of birds for the month July is higher (+675) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and higher (+1580) than the number of last year. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2018 in comparison of the numbers of this years, 2018 and the working time for this and last year at the station Schlammwiss.

E: first capture of this individual

W: recapture of an individual which was already captured this year

K: individuals which were ringed one or more years ago or individuals with a foreign country or station

Top 5

1.	ACRSCI	Reed Warbler	330
2.	ARCPAL	Marsh Warbler	320
3.	SYLATR	Blackcap	212
4.	PARMAJ	Great Tit	187
5.	PARCAE	Blue Tit	163

Interesting birds captured:

3 Actitis hypoleucos
2 Charadrius dubius
1 Delichon urbicum
3 Falco tinnunculus
2 Garrulus glandarius
2 Hippolais polyglotta
1 Parus montanus
1 Phoenicurus ochruros
5 Phoenicurus phoenicurus
6 Sylvia curruca

See the report of 2018

Summary

Distribution of the age:

Code	Amount	Definiton
C	5	older than four years
B	4	born four years ago
A	5	older than three years
9	4	born three years ago
8	5	older than two years
7	3	born two years ago
6	9	older than one year
5	40	born last year
4	576	age unkown, but not born this year
3	2097	born this year
2	20	age unknown
1	5	nestling

Distribution of nestlings - Code 1

Species	Name	Quantity
		May	June	July
Coloeus monedula	Western Jackdaw	1
Parus caeruleus	Blue Tit	10
Parus major	Great Tit	139	39
Passer domesticus	House Sparrow	2
Passer montanus	Tree Sparrow	4
Sitta europea	Eurasian Nuthatch	8
Athene noctua	Little Owl		8
Falco tinnunculus	Common Kestrel		12	3
Passer montanus	Eurasian Tree Sparrow		5
Tyto alba	Western Barn Owl		6
Charadrius dubius	Little Ringed Plover			2
Σ		167	70	5

Foreign birds that we controlled this year:

Month	Species	Country
January	Cyanistes caeruleus	France
February	Parus major	Belgium
March	Turdus merula	Belgium
	Troglodytes troglodytes	Belgium
	Erithacus rubecula	Sweden
April	Parus major	Belgium
	Sylvia atricapilla	Belgium
	Sylvia atricapilla	Spain
May	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	Spain
	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	Belgium
	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	Belgium
	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	Belgium
	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	Belgium
June	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	Belgium
July	Acrocephalus palustris	Belgium
	Acrocephalus palustris	Belgium
	Parus major	Belgium
	Parus major	Belgium

The team of the bird ringing station Schlammwiss are mostly volunteers who did an excellent work this month!

We say thank you for everyone who was helping this month!

In summary we spent around 145 hours during 25 days working at the station.

We also welcome the visitors on our station:

All our sightings of this month are saved in ornitho.lu

Observation

Compute total number of birds

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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

Thank you!

Photos of this month

Some photographers sent us their photos which we included into our report.

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

Thank you for the photos!

Did you take any photos at the station, a visit or of any birds with a ring that could be from our station and want to publish those in the next report of the month?

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