Report of the month
Report of the month - March
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 March, our members who are mostly volunteers, have spent about 654 hours working at at the birdringing station
"Schlammwiss". This results in 514 hours ringing activities and 140 working hours at the station this month.
Thanks a lot for your help!
With this effort it was possible to capture 710 birds of 29 species (see the table left) this month at our station.
This number is subdivided in 300 E, 138 K and 1272 W. The total amount of individuals (E+K) is 438. This is lower (-10) than the mean number of birds caught at the station from 2001-2020 and higher (+194) than the number of last year.
None bird foreign origin has been caught.
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
| species | n | ||
| 1. | EMBSCH | Reed Bunting | 55 |
| 2. | EMBCIT | Yellowhammer |
52 |
| 3. | PHYCOL | Chiffchaff | 46 |
| 4. | ERIRUB | Robin | 45 |
| 5. | PARCAE | Blue Tit | 35 |
Interesting birds captured:
| species | n | |
| 1. | Accipiter nisus | 1 |
| 2. |
Luscinia svecica |
1 |
| 3. |
Passer montanus |
4 |
| 4. |
Rallus aquaticus |
2 |
| 5. |
Remiz pendulinus |
2 |
The first graphic below shows the current situation of birds captured this year in comparison of the median number of birds captured from 2001-2020. In addition, we include a new bar
chart with an more accurate time calculation. The bar chart is divided in the normal ringing activities, special ringing activities (e.g.: ringing Barn Owls, control of nest boxes,..) and time we
spent at the bird ringing station for further work or "other activities" (e.g.: replacing of nets, clearing net lines, visits,...).
In older calculations, only a time calculation was done on the basis of the ringing data. This time calculation was retained for graphs 2 and 3 so that the results can be compared with recent years.
The number of birds captured this year and working time this year (old calculation) in comparison of the mean number of birds caught in the years 2001-2020 and the mean working time from 2018-2020 is shown in the second graph below left.
In the second graph below right you can find a comparison of this year with the last three years.
In the graph on the left you can see the course of the ringed species compared to the days with open nets of each month. Furthermore, the mean value of species and the open nets days from 2018-2020 are displayed. The distribution of birds ringed and working time per day are illustrated in the graph on the left. The number of birds ringed is separated in E, W and K.
First spring arrivals captured:
| Species |
Latin Name |
Date (2021) |
Date (2020) |
Date (2019) |
Late or early |
| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | 23.1 | 23.2 | 31.3 | +31 |
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | 13.2 | 17.2 | 31.3 | +4 |
| Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | 20.2 | 2.3 | 10.3 | +10 |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecia | 27.3 | 16.3 | 25.3 | -11 |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 28.3 | 27.4 |
7.4 |
+30 |
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | 20.3 | 3.3 | 17.3 | -17 |
| Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | 16.3 | 9.4 | ||
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | 23.3 | / | ||
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 | / | ||
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 30.3 | 1.4 | ||
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | 31.3 | / | ||
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | 5.4 | / | ||
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | 6.4 | 10.5 | ||
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | 19.4 | / | ||
| Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | 19.4 | 8.4 | ||
| Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 21.4 | 1.5 | ||
| Lesser Whitethroat | Sylvia curruca | 21.4 | 14.4 | ||
| Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | 21.4 | / | ||
| Garden Warbler | Syvlia borin | 28.4 | 22.4 | ||
| Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | 28.4 | / | ||
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | 18.5 | 22.4 | ||
| Red Backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | 17.5 | 10.5 | ||
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | 10.5 | 13.5 |
The distribution of the age is shown in the pie chart below. You can find the exact amount in the table right. Birds with the age code 1 or 3 are considered as juvenile and birds with an age code of 4 or higher are registered as adults. Note that the age of birds with the code 6 or higher is (in the most cases) only possible to tell by recaptured birds (K). The age of birds with the code 2 is unknown.
| Code | Amount | Definiton | |
| C | 1 | older than four years | |
| B | 4 | born four years ago | |
| A |
7 |
older than three years | |
| 9 | 8 | born three years ago | |
| 8 | 9 | older than two years | |
| 7 | 20 | born two years ago | |
| 6 | 35 | older than one year | |
| 5 |
166 |
born last year | |
| 4 |
188 |
age unknown, but not born this year | |
| 3 | / | born this year | |
| 2 | / | age unknown | |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country | Central | |
| March | Phylloscopus collybita | Germany | Radolfzell | |
All our sightings are registered by ornitho.lu
Thanks to everyone who was observing at our station and put the data online!
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?
Extra story:
In order to support the expansion of the Hoopoe (Upupa epos) and hopefully the natural reintroduction of breeding birds in Luxembourg, we installed about 30 new nest boxes this year!
We cross our fingers!
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Photos: Jim Schmitz
Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:
Report of the month - February
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 February, our members who are mostly volunteers, have spent about 479 hours working at at the birdringing station
"Schlammwiss". This results in 382 hours ringing activities and 97 working hours at the station this month.
Thanks a lot for your help!
With this effort it was possible to capture 544 birds of 32 species (see the table left) this month at our station.
This number is subdivided in 245 E, 150 K and 149 W. The total amount of individuals (E+K) is 395. This is higher (+264) than the mean number of birds caught at the station from 2001-2020 and higher (+221) than the number of last year.
None bird foreign origin has been caught.
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
| species | n | ||
| 1. | PARCAE | Blue Tit | 66 |
| 2. | EMBCIT | Yellowhammer |
65 |
| 3. | ANTSPIN | Water Pipit | 43 |
| 4. | PARMAJ | Great Tit | 40 |
| 5. | PASDOM | House Sparrow | 36 |
Interesting birds captured:
| species | n | |
| 1. | Accipiter nisus | 2 |
| 2. | Alauda arvensis | 3 |
| 3. | Anthus pratensis | 1 |
| 4. | Athene noctua | 1 |
| 5. | Carduelis spinus | 3 |
| 6. | Garrulus glandarius | 1 |
| 7. | Rallus aquaticus | 1 |
The first graphic below shows the current situation of birds captured this year in comparison of the median number of birds captured from 2001-2020. In addition, we include a new bar
chart with an more accurate time calculation. The bar chart is divided in the normal ringing activities, special ringing activities (e.g.: ringing Barn Owls, control of nest boxes,..) and time we
spent at the bird ringing station for further work (e.g.: replacing of nets, clearing net lines, visits,...).
In older calculations, only a time calculation was done on the basis of the ringing data. This time calculation was retained for graphs 2 and 3 so that the results can be compared with recent years.
The number of birds captured this year and working time this year (old calculation) in comparison of the mean number of birds caught in the years 2001-2020 and the mean working time from 2018-2020 is shown in the second graph below left.
In the second graph below right you can find a comparison of this year with the last three years.
In the graph on the left you can see the course of the ringed species compared to the days with open nets of each month. Furthermore, the mean value of species and the open nets days from 2018-2020 are displayed. The distribution of birds ringed and working time per day are illustrated in the graph on the left. The number of birds ringed is separated in E, W and K.
First spring arrivals captured:
| Species |
Latin Name |
Date (2021) |
Date (2020) |
Date (2019) |
Late or early |
| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | 23.1 | 23.2 | 31.3 | +31 |
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | 13.2 | 17.2 | 31.3 | +4 |
| Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | 20.2 | 2.3 | 10.3 | +10 |
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | 3.3 | 17.3 | ||
| White Spotted Bluethroat | Luscinia svecia cyanecula | 16.3 | 25.3 | ||
| Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | 16.3 | 9.4 | ||
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | 23.3 | / | ||
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 | / | ||
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 30.3 | 1.4 | ||
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | 31.3 | / | ||
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | 5.4 | / | ||
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | 6.4 | 10.5 | ||
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | 19.4 | / | ||
| Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | 19.4 | 8.4 | ||
| Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 21.4 | 1.5 | ||
| Lesser Whitethroat | Sylvia curruca | 21.4 | 14.4 | ||
| Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | 21.4 | / | ||
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 27.4 | 7.4 | ||
| Garden Warbler | Syvlia borin | 28.4 | 22.4 | ||
| Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | 28.4 | / | ||
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | 18.5 | 22.4 | ||
| Red Backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | 17.5 | 10.5 | ||
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | 10.5 | 13.5 |
The distribution of the age is shown in the pie chart below. You can find the exact amount in the table right. Birds with the age code 1 or 3 are considered as juvenile and birds with an age code of 4 or higher are registered as adults. Note that the age of birds with the code 6 or higher is (in the most cases) only possible to tell by recaptured birds (K). The age of birds with the code 2 is unknown.
| Code | Amount | Definiton | |
| C | 2 | older than four years | |
| B | 3 | born four years ago | |
| A |
5 |
older than three years | |
| 9 | 5 | born three years ago | |
| 8 | 9 | older than two years | |
| 7 | 22 | born two years ago | |
| 6 | 40 | older than one year | |
| 5 |
175 |
born last year | |
| 4 |
134 |
age unknown, but not born this year | |
| 3 | / | born this year | |
| 2 | / | age unknown | |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
All our sightings are registered by ornitho.lu
Thanks to everyone who was observing at our station and put the data online!
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?
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Photos: Jim Schmitz
Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:
Report of the month - January
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 January, our members who are mostly volunteers, have spent about 325 hours working at at the birdringing station
"Schlammwiss". This results in 282 hours ringing activities and 43 working hours at the station this month.
Thanks a lot for your help!
With this effort it was possible to capture 383 birds of 23 species (see the table left) this month at our station.
This number is subdivided in 183 E, 159 K and 41 W. The total amount of individuals (E+K) is 342. This is higher (+113) than the mean number of birds caught at the station from 2001-2020 and lower (-128) than the number of last year.
None bird foreign origin has been caught.
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. | PARCAE | Blue Tit | 102 |
| 2. | PASDOM | House sparrow |
44 |
| 3. | ANTSPIN | Water Pipit | 30 |
| 4. | PARMAJ | Great Tit | 27 |
| 5. | EMBCIT | Yellowhammer | 24 |
| ERTRUB | Robin | 24 |
Interesting birds captured:
| species | n | |
| 1. | Anthus pratensis | 1 |
| 2. | Rallus aquaticus | 1 |
| 3. | Turdus iliacus | 17 |
The first graphic below shows the current situation of birds captured this year in comparison of the median number of birds captured from 2001-2020. In addition, we include a new bar
chart with an more accurate time calculation. The bar chart is divided in the normal ringing activities, special ringing activities (e.g.: ringing Barn Owls, control of nest boxes,..) and time we
spent at the bird ringing station for further work (e.g.: replacing of nets, clearing net lines, visits,...).
In older calculations, only a time calculation was done on the basis of the ringing data. This time calculation was retained for graphs 2 and 3 so that the results can be compared with recent years.
The number of birds captured this year and working time this year (old calculation) in comparison of the mean number of birds caught in the years 2001-2020 and the mean working time from 2018-2020 is shown in the second graph below left.
In the second graph below right you can find a comparison of this year with the last three years.
In the graph on the left you can see the course of the ringed species compared to the days with open nets of each month. Furthermore, the mean value of species and the open nets days from 2018-2020 are displayed. The distribution of birds ringed and working time per day are illustrated in the graph on the left. The number of birds ringed is separated in E, W and K.
The distribution of the age is shown in the pie chart below. You can find the exact amount in the table right. Birds with the age code 1 or 3 are considered as juvenile and birds with an age code of 4 or higher are registered as adults. Note that the age of birds with the code 6 or higher is (in the most cases) only possible to tell by recaptured birds (K). The age of birds with the code 2 is unknown.
| Code | Amount | Definiton | |
| C | 3 | older than four years | |
| B | 2 | born four years ago | |
| A |
3 |
older than three years | |
| 9 | 6 | born three years ago | |
| 8 | 6 | older than two years | |
| 7 | 33 | born two years ago | |
| 6 | 42 | older than one year | |
| 5 |
212 |
born last year | |
| 4 |
72 |
age unknown, but not born this year | |
| 3 | 3 | born this year | |
| 2 | 1 | age unknown | |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
All our sightings are registered by ornitho.lu
Thanks to everyone who was observing at our station and put the data online!
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?
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Photos: Jim Schmitz
Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:
Report of the month - August
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 August, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 11 567 birds of 63 species. This number is subdivided in 8967 E, 2466 W and 134 K. 38 bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month August is higher (+398) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and higher (+5380) 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. | HIRRUS | Barn Swallow | 3 331 |
| 2. | ARCSCI | Reed Warbler |
2 772 |
| 3. | ARCPAL | Marsh Warbler | 501 |
| 4. | SYLAT | Blackcap | 341 |
| 5. | ARCSCH | Sedge Warbler | 278 |
Interesting birds captured:
-
60 Luscinia svecica
- 50 Delichon urbicum
- 22 Saxicola rubetra
- 16 Actitis hypoleucos
- 13 Locustella luscinioides
- 11 Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- 9 Anthus trivialis
- 5 Coturnix coturnix
- 5 Hippolais icterina
- 5 Motacilla flava
- 5 Sylvia curruca
- 3 Riparia riparia
- 2 Parus montanus
- 2 Hirunda rustica x Delichon urbicum
- 1 Accipiter nisus
- 1 Buteo buteo
- 1 Passer montanus
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 2 | older than four years |
| B | 2 | born four years ago |
| A | 1 | older than three years |
| 9 | 3 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 6 | older than two years |
| 7 | 16 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 9 | older than one year |
| 5 |
33 |
born last year |
| 4 |
1722 |
age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 7212 | born this year |
| 2 | 94 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | 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 | Amount | Species | Country | |
| January | 1 | Cyanistes caeruleus | France | FRP |
| February | 1 | Parus major | Belgium | BLB |
| March | 1 | Turdus merula | Belgium | BLB |
| 1 | Troglodytes troglodytes | Belgium | BLB | |
| 1 | Erithacus rubecula | Sweden | SVS | |
| April | 1 | Parus major | Belgium | BLB |
| 1 | Sylvia atricapilla | Belgium | BLB | |
| 1 | Spain | ESI | ||
| May | 1 | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Spain | ESI |
| 4 | Belgium | BLB | ||
| June | 1 | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | BLB |
| July | 2 | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium | BLB |
| 2 | Parus major | Belgium | BLB | |
| August | 3 | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium | BLB |
| 1 | Germany (Radolfzell) | DFR | ||
| 3 | Acrocephlaus schoenobaenus | Belgium | BLB | |
| 1 | Germany (Radolfzell) | DFR | ||
| 1 | Great Britain | GBT | ||
| 10 | Acrocephlaus scirpaceus | Belgium | BLB | |
| 1 | Czech Republic | CSP | ||
| 2 | Germany (Helgoland) | DFH | ||
| 2 | Germany (Radolfzell) | DFR | ||
| 1 | Spain | ESA | ||
| 2 | France | FRP | ||
| 1 | Netherlands | NLA | ||
| 1 | Poland | PLG | ||
| 1 | Sweden | SVS | ||
| 5 | Hirunda rustica | Belgium | BLB | |
| 1 | Spain | ESA | ||
| 1 | Sylvia communis | Sweden | SVS |
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 290 hours during 30 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
Compute total number of observation
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?
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Photos: Jim Schmitz, Kelly Kieffer
Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:
Report of the month - July
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
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
Compute total number of observation
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?
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Photos: Jim Schmitz, Kelly Kieffer
Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:
Report of the month - June
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 June, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 983 birds of 43 species. This number is subdivided in 685 E, 226 W and 72 K. 1 bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month June is higher (+112) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and higher (+151) 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. | PARMAJ | Great Tit | 130 |
| 2. | PARCAE | Blue Tit |
107 |
| 3. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 105 |
| 4. | ACRSCI | Reed Warbler | 77 |
| 5. | ACOPAL | Marsh Warbler | 67 |
Interesting birds captured:
-
12 Falco tinnunculus
- 8 Athene noctua
- 6 Tyto alba
- 4 Hippolais polyglotta
- 1 Ficedula hypoleuca
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 9 | older than four years |
| B | 5 | born four years ago |
| A | 5 | older than three years |
| 9 | 10 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 6 | older than two years |
| 7 | 17 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 25 | older than one year |
| 5 |
72 |
born last year |
| 4 |
277 |
age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 487 | born this year |
| 2 | / | age unknown |
| 1 | 70 | nestling |
Distribution of nestlings - Code 1
| Species | Name | Quantity | |
| May | June | ||
| 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 | |
| Passer montanus | Eurasian Tree Sparrow | 5 | |
| Tyto alba | Western Barn Owl | 6 | |
| Σ | 167 | 70 |
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 |
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 104 hours during 22 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
Compute total number of observation
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?
Extra story:
New autobiographies of our team members:
Brutvogelmonitoring im Naturschutzgebiet „Schlammwiss-Brill“ 2018
Using a standardized transect survey, the complete breeding bird assemblage was analysed inside a 75-ha large wetland area in the eastern part of Luxembourg between Uebersyren and Mensdorf. The wetland area is classified as national nature reserve ´Schlammwiss-Brill´ and is designated SPA (´Special protected area´) of the European birds’ directive. By having conducted 24 site visits from April to July 2018, 2´589 single records of 78 different bird species were collected. The total breeding population added up to 441 breeding territories of 48 bird species, including typical species found in wetlands such as reed buntings Emberiza schoeniclus (36 territories), marsh warblers Acrocephalus palustris (21 territories), reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus (32 territories), common nightingales Luscinia
megarhynchos (7 territories) und grasshopper warblers Locustella naevia (6 territories). Besides a large breeding stock of rather common species, one territory of the nationa
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Photos: Jim Schmitz,
Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:
Report of the month - May
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 May, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 832 birds of 50 species. This number is subdivided in 595 E, 172 W and 65 K. 5 birds foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month May is higher (+150) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and higher (+124) 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 | 168 |
| 2. | PARMAJ | Great Tit |
147 |
| 3. | SYLCOM | Whitethroat | 45 |
| 4. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 38 |
| 5. | ACRPAL | Marsh Warbler | 28 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 7 Hippolais polyglotta
- 6 Saxicola rubetra
- 4 Coloeus monedula
- 3 Actitis hypoleucos
- 1 Athene noctua
- 1 Crex crex
- 1 Delichon urbicum
- 1 Falco tinnunculus
- 1 Ficedula hypoleuca
- 1 Porzana porzana
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 5 | older than four years |
| B | 10 | born four years ago |
| A | 3 | older than three years |
| 9 | 8 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 9 | older than two years |
| 7 | 21 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 34 | older than one year |
| 5 |
67 |
born last year |
| 4 | 464 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 43 | born this year |
| 2 | 1 | age unknown |
| 1 | 167 | nestling |
Distribution of nestlings - Code 1
| Species | Name | Quantity |
| Coloeus monedula | Western Jackdaw | 1 |
| Parus caeruleus | Blue Tit | 10 |
| Parus major | Great Tit | 139 |
| Passer domesticus | House Sparrow | 2 |
| Passer montanus | Tree Sparrow | 4 |
| Sitta europea | Eurasian Nuthatch | 8 |
| Σ | 167 |
First spring arrivals:
| Species |
Latin Name |
Date (this year) |
Date (last year) |
Late or early |
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | 17.2 | 31.3 | +42 |
| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | 23.2 | 31.3 | +36 |
| Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | 2.3 | 10.3 | +8 |
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | 3.3 | 17.3 | -14 |
| White Spotted Bluethroat | Luscinia svecia cyanecula | 16.3 | 25.3 | +9 |
| Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | 16.3 | 9.4 | +24 |
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | 23.3 | / | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 | / | |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 30.3 | 1.4 | +2 |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | 31.3 | / | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | 5.4 | / | |
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | 6.4 | 10.5 | +34 |
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | 19.4 | / | |
| Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | 19.4 | 8.4 | -11 |
| Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 21.4 | 1.5 | +10 |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Sylvia curruca | 21.4 | 14.4 | -7 |
| Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | 21.4 | / | |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 27.4 | 7.4 | -20 |
| Garden Warbler | Syvlia borin | 28.4 | 22.4 | -6 |
| Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | 28.4 | / | |
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | 18.5 | 22.4 | -26 |
| Red Backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | 17.5 | 10.5 | -7 |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | 10.5 | 13.5 | +3 |
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 |
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 120 hours during 20 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
Compute total number of observation
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?
Extra story:
In memory of our member Fernand Kinnen
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Anabela Carvalho, Kelly Kieffer: Photos;
Cédric Brodin: providing the data
Report of the month - April
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 March, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 914 birds of 44 species. This number is subdivided in 580 E, 260 W and 74 K. 3 bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month March is lower (-53) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and higher (+104) 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. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 296 |
| 2. | ERIRUB | Robin |
66 |
| 3. | PHYCOL | Chiffchaff | 41 |
| 4. | EMBSCH | Reed Bunting | 25 |
| 5. | STUVUL | Staring | 25 |
Interesting birds captured:
-
11 Anthus spinoletta
- 7 Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- 3 Luscinia svecica
- 2 Pica pica
- 1 Acrocephalus paludicola
- 1 Gallinago gallinago
- 1 Luscinia svecica cyanecula
- 1 Lymnocryptes minimus
- 1 Porzana porzana
- 1 Saxicola subetra
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 14 | older than four years |
| B | 10 | born four years ago |
| A | 9 | older than three years |
| 9 | 11 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 18 | older than two years |
| 7 | 26 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 51 | older than one year |
| 5 |
245 |
born last year |
| 4 | 529 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 1 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
First spring arrivals:
| Species |
Latin Name |
Date (this year) |
Date (last year) |
Late or early |
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | 17.2 | 31.3 | +42 |
| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | 23.2 | 31.3 | +36 |
| Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | 2.3 | 10.3 | +8 |
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | 3.3 | 17.3 | -14 |
| White Spotted Bluethroat | Luscinia svecia cyanecula | 16.3 | 25.3 | +9 |
| Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | 16.3 | 9.4 | +24 |
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | 23.3 | / | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 | / | |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 30.3 | 1.4 | +2 |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | 31.3 | / | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | 5.4 | / | |
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | 6.4 | 10.5 | +34 |
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | 19.4 | / | |
| Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | 19.4 | 8.4 | -11 |
| Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 21.4 | 1.5 | +10 |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Sylvia curruca | 21.4 | 14.4 | -7 |
| Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | 21.4 | / | |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 27.4 | 7.4 | -20 |
| Garden Warbler | Syvlia borin | 28.4 | 22.4 | -6 |
| Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | 28.4 | / |
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 |
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 99 hours during 14 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
Compute total number of observation
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?
Extra story:
In memory of our grand duc Jean
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Anabela Carvalho, Kelly Kieffer: Photos;
Cédric Brodin: providing the data
Report of the month - March
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 March, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 659 birds of 35 species. This number is subdivided in 331 E, 114 W and 214 K. 3 bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month March is lower (-139) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and lower (-123) 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. | PHYCOL | Chiffchaff | 91 |
| 2. | EMBSCH | Reed Bunting |
72 |
| 3. | ERIRUB | Robin | 45 |
| 4. | CHLCHL | Greenfinch | 26 |
| 5. | CYACAE | Blue Tit | 26 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 23 Anthus spinoletta
- 3 Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- 2 Luscinia svecica
- 2 Regulus ignicapilla
- 2 Regulus Regulus
- 1 Phylloscopus collybita abietinus
- 1 Spotted Crake
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 10 | older than four years |
| B | 7 | born four years ago |
| A | 5 | older than three years |
| 9 | 8 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 14 | older than two years |
| 7 | 37 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 47 | older than one year |
| 5 |
204 |
born last year |
| 4 | 326 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 1 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
First spring arrivals:
| Species |
Latin Name |
Date (this year) |
Date (last year) |
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | 17.2 | 31.3 |
| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | 23.2 | 31.3 |
| Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | 2.3 | 10.3 |
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | 3.3 | 17.3 |
| White Spotted Bluethroat | Luscinia svecia cyanecula | 16.3 | 25.3 |
| Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | 16.3 | 9.4 |
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | 23.3 | / |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 | 24.8 |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 30.3 | 1.4 |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | 31.3 | / |
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 |
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 66 hours during 11 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
Compute total number of observation
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?
Extra story:
The first two publication about the water pipit (Anthus spinoletta) project are published!
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Anabela Carvalho, Max Steinmetz, Rob Schiltz: Photos ; Cédric Brodin: providing the data
Report of the month - February
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 February, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 549 birds of 24 species. This number is subdivided in 222 E, 212 W and 115 K. One bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month February is higher (+99) than the average amount of birds caught at the station from 2001-2018 and lower (-156) 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. | CYACAE | Blue Tit | 112 |
| 2. | PARMAJ | Great Tit |
43 |
| 3. | CHLCHL | Greenfinch | 28 |
| 4. | TURMER | Blackbird | 27 |
| 5. | EMBSCH | Reed Bunting | 26 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 2 Anthus spinoletta
- 2 Dendrocopus medius
- 2 Rallus aquaticus
-
1 Spinus spinus
-
1 Certhia brachydactyla
- 1 Gallinago gallinago
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 10 | older than four years |
| B | 3 | born four years ago |
| A | 3 | older than three years |
| 9 | 6 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 7 | older than two years |
| 7 | 21 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 61 | older than one year |
| 5 |
332 |
born last year |
| 4 | 103 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 3 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
First spring arrivals:
| Species |
Date (this year) |
Date (last year) |
|
| Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | 17.2 | 31.3 |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | Cyanistes caeruleus | France |
| February | 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 44 hours during 9 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
Compute total number of observation
Photos of this month
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz: Photos ; Cédric Brodin: providing the data
Report of the month - January
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 November, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 353 birds of 23 species. This number is subdivided in 138 E, 140 W and 215 K. One bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month January is higher (+151) than the average amount of birds caught in January at the station from 2001-2018 and higher (+10) 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 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. | CYACAE | Blue Tit | 108 |
| 2. | PARMAJ | Great Tit |
63 |
| 3. | EMBCIT | Yellowhammer | 41 |
| 4. | PASDOM | House Sparrow | 37 |
| 5. | FRICOE | Chaffinch | 19 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 5 Dendrocopos major
- 3 Certhia brachydactyla
- 1 Fringilla montifringilla
- 1 Bueto buteo
- 1 Phylloscopus collybita abietinus
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 3 | older than four years |
| B | 6 | born four years ago |
| A | 7 | older than three years |
| 9 | 4 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 10 | older than two years |
| 7 | 36 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 61 | older than one year |
| 5 |
268 |
born last year |
| 4 | 88 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 10 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | Cyanistes caeruleus | France |
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 25 hours during 6 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
Compute total number of observation
Photos of this month
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz: Photos ; Cédric Brodin: providing the data
Report of the month - Dezember
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 November, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 365 birds of 24 species. This number is subdivided in 171 E, 184 W and 10 K. One bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is higher than the average amount of birds caught in Dezember at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | PASDOM | House Sparrow | 41 |
| 2. | CHLCHL | Greenfinch |
39 |
| 3. | CYACAE | Blue Tit | 29 |
| 4. | FRICOE | Chawfinch | 13 |
| 5. | ANTSPI | Waterpipit | 12 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 12 Anthus spinoletta
- 2 Fringila montifringilla
- 2 Eurasian Jay
- 1 Phylloscopus collybita
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 2 | older than four years |
| B | / | born four years ago |
| A | / | older than three years |
| 9 | 3 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 2 | older than two years |
| 7 | 5 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 1 | older than one year |
| 5 | 15 | born last year |
| 4 | 61 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 193 | born this year |
| 2 | 83 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Belgium |
| March | Emberiza schoeniclus | France |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | / |
| July | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Latvia |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Helgoland | |
| Parus major | Belgium | |
| August | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Germany - Radolfzell | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | France | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Netherlands | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Spain | |
| Sylvia borin | England | |
| Sylvia communis | Belgium | |
| Sylvia curruca | Belgium | |
| September | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | England | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Phylloscopus caollybita | Sweden | |
| Sylvia atricapilla | Belgium | |
| October | / | / |
| November | Parus caeruleus | France |
| Dezember | / | / |
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 18 hours during 5 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
Compute total number of observation
Photos of this month
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - November
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 November, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 640 birds of 32 species. This number is subdivided in 350 E, 283 W and 7 K. One bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is lower than the average amount of birds caught in November at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | CARCHL | Greenfinch | 100 |
| 2. | PARCAE | Blue Tit |
65 |
| 3. | ERIRUB | Robin | 50 |
| 4. | PASDOM | House Sparrow | 26 |
| 5. | TURMER | Blackbird | 14 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 9 Alauda arvensis
- 3 Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- 100 Carduelis chloris
- 2 Dendrocopus major
- 12 Phylloscopus collybita
- 1 Picus verdis
- 1 Rallus aquaticus
-
4 Regulus regulus
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | / | older than four years |
| B | 2 | born four years ago |
| A | 2 | older than three years |
| 9 | 4 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 1 | older than two years |
| 7 | 4 | born two years ago |
| 6 | / | older than one year |
| 5 | 20 | born last year |
| 4 | 82 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 421 | born this year |
| 2 | 104 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Belgium |
| March | Emberiza schoeniclus | France |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | / |
| July | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Latvia |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Helgoland | |
| Parus major | Belgium | |
| August | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Germany - Radolfzell | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | France | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Netherlands | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Spain | |
| Sylvia borin | England | |
| Sylvia communis | Belgium | |
| Sylvia curruca | Belgium | |
| September | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | England | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Phylloscopus caollybita | Sweden | |
| Sylvia atricapilla | Belgium | |
| October | / | / |
| November | Parus caeruleus | France |
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 40 hours during 9 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
Compute total number of observation
Photos of this month
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Max Steinmetz
Report of the month - October
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 October, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 1 237 birds of 36 species. This number is subdivided in 991 E, 238 W and 8 K. None birds foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is higher than the average amount of birds caught in October at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | ERIRUB | Robin | 263 |
| 2. | SYLATR | Blackcap |
196 |
| 3. | EMBSCH | Reed Bunting | 97 |
| 4. | ACRSCI | Reed Warbler | 82 |
| 5. | PARCAE | Blue Tit | 74 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 15 Alauda arvensis
- 1 Anthus spinoletta
- 2 Gallinago gallinago
- 2 Lymnocryptes minimus
- 3 Rallus aquaticus
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | / | older than four years |
| B | 1 | born four years ago |
| A | / | older than three years |
| 9 | 2 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 1 | older than two years |
| 7 | 2 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 2 | older than one year |
| 5 | 12 | born last year |
| 4 | 90 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 776 | born this year |
| 2 | 349 | age unknown |
| 1 | 2 | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Belgium |
| March | Emberiza schoeniclus | France |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | / |
| July | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Latvia |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Helgoland | |
| Parus major | Belgium | |
| August | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Germany - Radolfzell | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | France | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Netherlands | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Spain | |
| Sylvia borin | England | |
| Sylvia communis | Belgium | |
| Sylvia curruca | Belgium | |
| September | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | England | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Phylloscopus caollybita | Sweden | |
| Sylvia atricapilla | Belgium | |
| October | / | / |
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 78 hours during 11 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
Compute total number of observation
Photos of this month
Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - September
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 september, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 3 520 birds of 53 species. This number is subdivided in 3 163 E, 338 W and 19 K. 8 birds foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is lower than the average amount of birds caught in september at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 1 612 |
| 2. | ARCSCI | Reed Warbler |
744 |
| 3. | ERIRUB | Robin | 199 |
| 4. | PRUMOD | Dunock | 132 |
| 5. | PARCAE | Blue tit | 81 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 1 Acrocephalus paludicola
- 1 Anthus pratensis
- 3 Anthus trivialis
- 1 Cortunix coturnix
- 4 Loscustella luscinioides
- 3 Luscinia svecica cyanecula
- 1 Muscicapa striata
- 4 Tyto alba
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | / | older than four years |
| B | / | born four years ago |
| A | / | older than three years |
| 9 | 4 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 3 | older than two years |
| 7 | 1 | born two years ago |
| 6 | / | older than one year |
| 5 | 14 | born last year |
| 4 | 89 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 2167 | born this year |
| 2 | 1238 | age unknown |
| 1 | 4 | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Emberiza schoeniclus | France |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | / |
| July | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Latvia |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Helgoland | |
| Parus major | Belgium | |
| August | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Germany - Radolfzell | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | France | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Netherlands | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Spain | |
| Sylvia borin | England | |
| Sylvia communis | Belgium | |
| Sylvia curruca | Belgium | |
| September | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | England | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden | |
| Phylloscopus caollybita | Sweden | |
| Sylvia atricapilla | 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 112 hours during 24 days working at the station.
We also welcome the visitors on our station:
All our sightings of this month are saved in ornitho.lu
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Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - August
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 august, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 4 249 birds of 56 species. This number is subdivided in 3 691 E, 528 W and 30 K. 14 bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is lower than the average amount of birds caught in august at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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 | 1 342 |
| 2. | HIRRUS | Barn Swallow |
1 101 |
| 3. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 379 |
| 4. | ACRPAL | Marsh Warbler | 165 |
| 5. | ACRSCH | Sedge Warbler | 80 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 27 Delichon urbicum
- 22 Luscinia svecica
- 4 Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- 4 Lanius collurio
- 2 Gallingo gallinago
- 2 Ixobrychus minutus
- 2 Muscicapa striata
- 1 Anthus trivialis
- 1 Coturnix coturnix
- 1 Hippolais icterina
- 1 Hippolais polyglotta
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 4 | older than four years |
| B | 1 | born four years ago |
| A | 1 | older than three years |
| 9 | 5 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 2 | older than two years |
| 7 | 7 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 6 | older than one year |
| 5 | 26 | born last year |
| 4 | 435 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 3492 | born this year |
| 2 | 270 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Emberiza schoeniclus | France |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | /Belgium |
| July | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Latvia |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Helgoland | |
| Parus major | Belgium | |
| August | Acrocephalus palustris | Belgium |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Germany - Radolfzell | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Belgium | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Hiddensee | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | France | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Netherlands | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Poland | |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Spain | |
| Sylvia borin | England | |
| Sylvia communis | Belgium | |
| Sylvia curruca | 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 175 hours during 27 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
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Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - July
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 1711 birds of 52 species. This number is subdivided in 1092 E, 572 W and 47 K. 3 bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is lower than the average amount of birds caught in july at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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 | 255 |
| 2. | ACRPAL | Marsh Warbler |
228 |
| 3. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 147 |
| 4. | PARCAE | Blue Tit | 74 |
| 5. | PARMAJ | Great Tit | 68 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 2 Hippolais polyglotta
- 2 Falco tinnunculus
- 1 Accipiter nisus
- 1 Certhia fammiliaris
- 1 Hippolais icterina
- 1 Locustella luscinioides
- 1 Luscinia svecica
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 5 | older than four years |
| B | 4 | born four years ago |
| A | 4 | older than three years |
| 9 | 11 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 2 | older than two years |
| 7 | 8 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 18 | older than one year |
| 5 | 57 | born last year |
| 4 | 265 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 1316 | born this year |
| 2 | 16 | age unknown |
| 1 | 5 | nestling |
Distribution of nestlings - Code 1
| Species | Latin name | Quantity |
| Great Tit |
Parus major |
3 |
| Kestrel |
Falco tinnunculus |
2 |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Emberiza schoeniclus | France | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | / |
| July | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Latvia |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Germany - Helgoland | |
| 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 91 hours during 21 days working at the station.
We also welcome the visitors on our station:
All our sightings of this month are saved in ornitho.lu
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Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - June
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 june, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 987 birds of 42 species. This number is subdivided in 539 E, 381 W and 67 K. None bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is lower than the average amount of birds caught in june at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | PARMAJ | Great Tit | 81 |
| 2. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 78 |
| 3. | PARCAE | Bluet Tit | 73 |
| 4. | ACROSCI | Reed Warbler | 61 |
| 5. | PHYLCOL | Chiff Chaff | 60 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 61 Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- 9 (juvenile) Athene noctua
- 9 (juvenile) Falco tinnunculus
First spring arrivals:
| Species | Date |
| Phylloscopus collybiata | 10.3 |
| Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 |
| Luscinia svecica | 25.3 |
|
Rallus aquaticus |
31.3 |
| Sylvia atricapilla | 31.3 |
|
Phylloscopus trochilus |
1.4 |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 7.4 |
| Sylvia communis | 8.4 |
| Regulus ignicapilla | 9.4 |
| Sylvia curruca | 14.4 |
| Luscinia megarhynchos | 21.4 |
| Acrocephalus arundinaceus | 22.4 |
| Sylvia borin | 22.4 |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 1.5 |
| Locustella naevia | 1.5 |
| Lanius collurio | 10.5 |
| Locustella luscinioides | 10.5 |
| Acrocephalus palustris | 13.5 |
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 11 | older than four years |
| B | 7 | born four years ago |
| A | 10 | older than three years |
| 9 | 8 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 4 | older than two years |
| 7 | 14 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 49 | older than one year |
| 5 | 77 | born last year |
| 4 | 201 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 576 | born this year |
| 2 | / | age unknown |
| 1 | 30 | nestling |
Distribution of nestlings - Code 1
| Species | Latin name | Quantity |
| Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | 9 |
| Little Owl | Athene noctua | 8 |
| Phoenicurus ochruros | Black Redstart | 5 |
| Great Tit | Parus Major | 4 |
| Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | 3 |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Emberiza schoeniclus | France | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
| June | / | / |
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 72 hours during 22 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
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Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - May
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 may, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 638 birds of 36 species. This number is subdivided in 484 E, 102 W and 52 K. None bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is higher than the average amount of birds caught in april at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | PARMAJ | Great Tit | 215 |
| 2. | ARCSCI | Reed Warbler | 80 |
| 3. | PARCAE | Bluet Tit | 57 |
| 4. | FICHYP | Pied Flycatcher | 40 |
| 5. | ARCPAL | Marsh Warbler | 26 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 1 Actitis hypoleucos
- 1 Falco tinnunculus
- 1 Lanius collurio
- 3 Linaria cannabina
- 3 Luscinia megarhynchos
- 5 Phoenicurus ochruros
- 1 Picus viridis
- 1 Acrocephalus scirpaceus with geolocator
First spring arrivals:
| Species | Date |
| Phylloscopus collybiata | 10.3 |
| Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 |
| Luscinia svecica | 25.3 |
|
Rallus aquaticus |
31.3 |
| Sylvia atricapilla | 31.3 |
|
Phylloscopus trochilus |
1.4 |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 7.4 |
| Sylvia communis | 8.4 |
| Regulus ignicapilla | 9.4 |
| Sylvia curruca | 14.4 |
| Luscinia megarhynchos | 21.4 |
| Acrocephalus arundinaceus | 22.4 |
| Sylvia borin | 22.4 |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 1.5 |
| Locustella naevia | 1.5 |
| Lanius collurio | 10.5 |
| Locustella luscinioides | 10.5 |
| Acrocephalus palustris | 13.5 |
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 1 | older than four years |
| B | 8 | born four years ago |
| A | 4 | older than three years |
| 9 | 5 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 6 | older than two years |
| 7 | 12 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 26 | older than one year |
| 5 | 42 | born last year |
| 4 | 208 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | 10 | born this year |
| 2 | / | age unknown |
| 1 | 316 | nestling |
Distribution of nestlings - Code 1
| Species | Latin name | Quantity |
| Great Tit | Parus major | 215 |
| Blue Tit | Parus caeruleus | 53 |
| Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | 40 |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | 5 |
| House sparrow | Passer domesticus | 3 |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Emberiza schoeniclus | France | |
| April | / | / |
| May | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sweden |
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 51 hours during 17 days working at the station.
We also welcome the visitors on our station:
All our sightings of this month are saved in ornitho.lu
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Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Max Steinmetz
Report of the month - April
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 april, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 759 birds of 41 species. This number is subdivided in 461 E, 209 W and 89 K. None bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is higher than the average amount of birds caught in april at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | SYLATR | Blackcap | 125 |
| 2. | COCCOC | Hawfinch | 94 |
| 3. | CARCHL | Greenfinch | 44 |
| 4. | EMBSCH | Reed bunting | 36 |
| 5. | STUVUL | Starling | 32 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 14 Anthus spinoletta
- 1 Dendrocopus medius
- 3 Dendrocopos major
- 1 Picus viridis
- 1 Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- 4 Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- 1 Garrulus glandarius
- 94 Coccothraustes coccothraustes
First spring arrivals:
| Species | Date |
| Phylloscopus collybiata | 10.3 |
| Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 |
| Luscinia svecica | 25.3 |
|
Rallus aquaticus |
31.3 |
| Sylvia atricapilla | 31.3 |
|
Phylloscopus trochilus |
1.4 |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 7.4 |
| Sylvia communis | 8.4 |
| Regulus ignicapilla | 9.4 |
| Sylvia curruca | 14.4 |
| Luscinia megarhynchos | 21.4 |
| Acrocephalus arundinaceus | 22.4 |
| Sylvia borin | 22.4 |
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 6 | older than four years |
| B | 11 | born four years ago |
| A | 8 | older than three years |
| 9 | 17 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 12 | older than two years |
| 7 | 21 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 90 | older than one year |
| 5 | 232 | born last year |
| 4 | 362 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | / | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Emberiza schoeniclus | France | |
| April | / | / |
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 57 hours during 13 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
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Extra story:
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Max Steinmetz
Report of the month - March
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 march, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 855 birds of 34 species. This number is subdivided in 581 E, 187 W and 87 K. None bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is higher than the average amount of birds caught in february at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | COCCOC | Hawfinch | 172 |
| 2. | PARCAE | Blue tit | 112 |
| 3. | ERIRUB | Robin | 74 |
| 4. | EMBSCH | Reed bunting | 73 |
| 5. | PARMAJ | Great tit | 61 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 1 Anthus pratensis
- 53 Anthus spinoletta
- 4 Carduelis spinus
- 172 Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- 1 Garrulus glandarius
- 1 Luscinia svecica
- 1 Phoenicurus ochruros
- 39 Phylloscopus collybiata + 2 spp. abietinus
- 1 Rallus aquaticus
- 8 Sylvia atricapilla
First spring arrivals:
| Species | Date |
| Phylloscopus collybiata | 10.3 |
| Phoenicurus ochruros | 24.3 |
| Luscinia svecica | 25.3 |
|
Rallus aquaticus |
31.3 |
| Sylvia atricapilla | 31.3 |
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 5 | older than four years |
| B | 10 | born four years ago |
| A | 3 | older than three years |
| 9 | 13 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 10 | older than two years |
| 7 | 23 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 150 | older than one year |
| 5 | 298 | born last year |
| 4 | 341 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 2 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds that we controlled this year:
| Month | Species | Country |
| January | / | / |
| February | Sturnus vulgaris | Beglium |
| March | Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium |
| Phylloscopus collybita | Belgium | |
| Emberiza schoeniclus | France |
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 46 hours during 9 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
Compute total number of observation
Photos of this month
Extra story:
A recapitulation of our waterpipitproject this year
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein
Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin
Report of the month - February
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 february, the bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 621 birds of 25 species. This number is subdivided in 233 E, 128 W and 260 K. One bird foreign origin has been caught.
The total amount of birds for the month is higher than the average amount of birds caught in february at the station. The graphic below shows the average amount of birds for each month during the years 2001-2014.
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. | PARCAE | Blue tit | 173 |
| 2. | PARMAJ | Great tit | 145 |
| 3. | ANTSPI | Waterpipit | 61 |
| 4. | TURMER | Blackbird | 42 |
| 5. | EMBCIT | Yellowhammer | 28 |
Interesting birds captured:
- 1 Anas crecca
- 3 Gallinago gallinago
- 9 Dendrocopos major
- 2 Dendrocopos medius
- 1 Garrulus glandarius
Summary
Distribution of the age:
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 6 | older than four years |
| B | 10 | at least three years old |
| 9 | 25 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 6 | older than two years |
| 7 | 31 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 56 | older than one year |
| 5 | 241 | born last year |
| 4 | 238 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 3 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
Foreign birds which we controlled this month:
| Sepcies | Country |
| STUVUL | 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 48 hours during 10 days working at the station.
We also welcome the visitors on our station:
All our sightings of this month are saved in ornitho.lu
Interesting observation
| Species | Quantity | Max |
| Alopochen aegyptiaca | 2 | |
| Anas crecca | 6 | 4 |
| Anthus spinoletta | 395 | 115 |
| Ardea cinerea | 1 | |
| Buteo buteo | 6 | |
| Carduelis chloris | 20 | |
| Carduelis spinus | 18 | 18 |
| Cadmerodius albus | 11 | 5 |
| Corvus corone | 2 | |
| Emberiza schoeniclus | 25 | |
| Erithacus rubecula | 2 | |
|
Falco tinnunculus |
5 | |
|
Fulica atra |
16 | 8 |
| Gallinago gallinago | 4 | 2 |
| Grus grus | 250 | 80 |
| Pica pica | 75 | 55 |
| Picus viridis | 3 | |
| Rallus aquaticus | 6 | 4 |
| Tachybaptus ruficollis | 19 | 6 |
| Turdus viscivorus | 2 |
Photos of this month
Extra story:
A recapitulation of our breeding monitoring 2017
by Hanna K.
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein, Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Max Steinmetz, Dave Lutgen
Report of the month - January
History: The nature reserve "Schlammwiss" was founded 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 "central ornithologique luxembourg" (COL), a part of the asbl. Natur & Emwelt. Due the fact that Luxembourg doesn't have it own bird ringing central, we're working in cooperation with Belgium. Therefore, Brussel aluminium rings of the Museum of Natural Science are used for the research in Luxembourg.
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 part of the zone Natura 2000. Through the research area flows the river Syr and affects it by periodic flooding.
Research area: Around 30ha is used for researches, on a length of 1km and a width of 30-120m. The main area is covered by reeds and wetlands (20ha). Furthermore, an orchards, a forest a several ponds in the wetland and of the purification plant (SIAS) is used. Mainly, mist nets and rail traps are used for the researches of the breeding population, resting birds and over wintering individuals. There are several projects running in the nature reserve and visitation are possible
Summary of the ringing activity this month
The bird ringing station "Schlammwiss" caught about 459 birds and 22 species during this month. This number is subdivided in 160 E, 116 W and 183 K. In total we caught 0 birds with foreign rings.
This number is higher than the average of birds caught at the station. See the grafic below which shows the average number of bird of each months during the years 2001-2014.
Special bird this month:
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. | PARCAE | Blue tit | 213 |
| 2. | PARMAJ | Grat tit | 118 |
| 3. | PASDOM | House sparrow | 19 |
| 4. | ERIRUB | Robin | 15 |
| 5. | FRICOE | Chaffinch | 15 |
A list of the foreign birds we controlled this month:
| Species | Country | Location |
| / | / | / |
Interesting birds:
- overwintering chiffchaffs
- middle-spotted woodpecker
- siskins
| Code | Amount | Definiton |
| C | 5 | older than four years |
| B | 6 | at least three years old |
| 9 | 19 | born three years ago |
| 8 | 3 | older than two years |
| 7 | 24 | born two years ago |
| 6 | 28 | older than one year |
| 5 | 285 | born last year |
| 4 | 85 | age unkown, but not born this year |
| 3 | / | born this year |
| 2 | 4 | age unknown |
| 1 | / | nestling |
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 were spending around 25 hours during 6 days working at the station.
We also welcome the visitors on our station:
All our sightings of the this month are saved in ornitho.lu
Interesting observation
| Species | Quantity |
| Anas crecca | 4 |
| Casmerodius albus | 3 |
| Corvus frugilegus | 10 |
| Falco tinnunculus | 1 |
| Fulica atra | 1 |
| Picus viridis | 1 |
| Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 |
Photos of this month
Thanks to the editiors of this report:
Charel Klein, Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Dave Lutgen, Max Steinmetz