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.

Graph 1

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  
         
         
         
         
         
         

The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!

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?

Contact us!


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:

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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.

Graph 1

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:

         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!

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?

Contact us!


Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

 

Photos: Jim Schmitz

Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:

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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.

Graph 1

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:

         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!

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?

Contact us!


Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

 

Photos: Jim Schmitz

Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:

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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

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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month


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

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

 

Thank you for the photos!

 

 

 

 

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

Contact us!






Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Photos: Jim Schmitz, Kelly Kieffer

Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month


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

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

 

Thank you for the photos!

 

 

 

 

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

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Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Photos: Jim Schmitz, Kelly Kieffer

Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month


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

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

 

Thank you for the photos!

 

 

 

 

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

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Roland Miny





Extra story:

RTL:

Grand-Duc Henri op Visitt am Naturschutzgebitt

Schlammwiss-Brill

 


New autobiographies of our team members:

Brutvogelmonitoring im Naturschutzgebiet „Schlammwiss-Brill“ 2018

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Brutvogelmonitoring im Naturschutzgebiet „Schlammwiss-Brill“ 2018 --//-- Zwischenbericht des dreijährigen Pilotprojekts (2017-2019) --//-- (German)
Summary:
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
Brutvogelbericht2018 (1).pdf
Adobe Acrobat Dokument 3.1 MB

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Photos: Jim Schmitz,

Providing the data: Cédric Brodin:

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month


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

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

 

Thank you for the photos!

 

 

 

 

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

Contact us!


Anabela Carvalhinho


Kelly Kieffer




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

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month


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

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

 

Thank you for the photos!

 

 

 

 

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

Contact us!


Anabela Carvalhinho


Kelly Kieffer



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

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month


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

All other photos are provided by Jim Schmitz.

 

Thank you for the photos!

 

 

 

 

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

Contact us!


Anabela Carvalhinho


Rob Schiltz


Max Steinmetz



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

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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

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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz: Photos ; Cédric Brodin: providing the data

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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

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Compute total number of observation


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz: Photos ; Cédric Brodin: providing the data

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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

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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

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Summary of the water pipit ringing activity on the 30.12.2018
Summary of the water pipit ringing activity on the 30.12.2018

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Max Steinmetz

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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


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin

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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

Observation

Compute total number of birds

Compute total number of observation


The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

Extra story:

 

 

Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin

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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

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Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin

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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

Observation

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Charel Klein

Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin

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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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Interesting recaptures
Interesting recaptures
Bericht: Biodiversitätwochenende in Feulen
Bericht: Biodiversitätwochenende in Feulen

 

 

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

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

Observation

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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

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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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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

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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

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The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


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  

The weather information are offered by Meteolux.lu

 

Thank you!


Photos of this month

Extra story:

A recapitulation of our breeding monitoring 2017

by Hanna K.

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Thanks to the editiors of this report:

Charel Klein, Jim Schmitz, Cédric Brodin, Max Steinmetz, Dave Lutgen

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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

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