New Andorinha article

https://academic.oup.com/cz/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cz/zoab053/6325085?login=true

Andorinhas return to the streets of Aveiro

September 29, 2017: 38 birds present at the known roost site in the PM. As if they never left. Discovered there by Davina & Daniel, on a big night out...

Training on Dutch andorinhas (May 10, 2017)

Capturing, ringing, measuring, bleeding and releasing Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica from a crowded barn in Hasselt, with Joop v.A. The cows were playing outside.

153 Andorinhas by night...

Hirundo rustica. Vera Cruz, Aveiro, Portugal. December 14, 2016, 22:05h. 10°C, partly cloudy.

Andorinhas return

Aveiro, Portugal, October 16, 2016, 20:30.

Merry christmas and a happy climatic change

The day a new apartment in the centre of Aveiro (Portugal) got occupied (December 1, 2015), a large pre-roost gathering of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) got noticed there, high up in the sky. Barn Swallows are a species assumed to spend the winter in Africa....

Today some big folks signed some deal that would help us all with taking care of climatic change...

Today also, we managed to find the exact roost of the swallows. A total of 150 Barn Swallows was counted, roosting on some small street corner in the centre of Aveiro. On December 12, 2015. A record for Portugal for December? While all other birders in the area were driving around in their cars looking for rarities... None of them recorded a single Barn Swallow this day (or this month?) it seemed...

Merry Christmas and a happy Climatic Change to everybody, anyway...


Tim



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Photo by Fabi




Photo by Fabi

Photos from the island Rottumerplaat: July 1 - August 8th (the end)

 Herring Gull Larus argentatus, with part of its tongue sticking out of its throat (for Antonio’s collection)

 Incubating Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

Colour-ringed Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia. After this season I don’t see the point anymore in reading Dutch colour-ringed Spoonbills, since I rarely get a reply on these reports.

 

Beached Northern Gannet Morus bassanus

 

Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica chicks in their nest.

  

D.I.Y. paradise

 

Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus (in the back) overlooking potential prey

 

Good reproduction this year for Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

 

Not all large gull chicks made it to fledging. One of our four Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus nests (after the harrier chicks fledged), containing remains of several large gull chicks.

Lost racing pigeons, all hatched in 2014, and a rabbit born in the same year

 

Beached Greater Black-backed Gull Larus marinus

 

 

 Common Swifts Apus apus sheltering on our observation tower for incoming bad weather