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