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News from the 'Schlammwiss' Team:

Regional Exchange in Bird Protection

Sa 03 Okt 2020

Some months ago, several members of the birdringing station Schlammwiss got a glimpse into a very interesting and remarkable voluntary-led conservation project just around the border in the middle of French Lorraine’s crop fields.

Here, the conservation association CSFL (Centre de Sauvegarde de la Faune Lorraine) is leading a monitoring and nest protection scheme for Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus) breeding in arable land. As many ground-breeding bird species, especially Montagu’s harriers breeding in arable land within high crops, risk having their nests and offsprings being mown or harvested.

In short terms protecting this species means monitoring the breeding population, pinpointing nests, communicating with farmers and installing protective measures such as nest cages. Even working with extremely rare and endangered species such as Montagu’s harriers, volunteers of the project were keen and fully convinced to inform outsiders about the very delicate situation and organize field excursions to existing nests. Of course without comprimising the breeding population. We participated in nest controls as well as ringing activities of young harriers and benefited greatly from the exchange.

We’d like to take the opportunity to thank the according team of CSFL for the exchange.

And keep up with this very important and immense work!

Autor: Max Steinmetz

Monitoring

Breeding habitat of the Montagu's Harrier. The CSFL has differnt methods how they find the nests in the fields. Here you can see the use of drones -- © Charel Klein

On the way to an unprotected nest in the field -- © Charel Klein

Natural nest in the crops -- © Charel Klein

Chick that hatched some hours ago and two more eggs-- © Charel Klein

Hunting male over the fields -- © Max Steinmetz

Observation of the hunting male -- © Charel Klein

Team members of the CSFL giving information about the field work and nest protection -- © Charel Klein

CSFL member F. BURDA approximating the nest in a harvested field -- © Charel Klein

Approximating the nest in a harvested field -- © Charel Klein

Approximating the nest in a harvested field -- © Jim Schmitz

CSFL member F. BURDA teaching us how to build this protection -- © Jim Schmitz

... some information how to build this protection -- © Max Steinmetz

The protected nest in a harvested field-- © Charel Klein

Young Montagu's Harrier in the protected nest in the middle of a harvested field -- © Jim Schmitz

Ringing

CSFL & Schlammwiss members walking to the protected nest in a harvested field in order to ring the young Montagu's Harrier -- © Charel Klein

Young Montagu's Harrier are hiding in the protected nest -- © Charel Klein

Young chick in a protected nest -- © Charel Klein

CSFL giving us some information about the monitoring, protection and their very interesting work -- © Charel Klein

Taking out the juvenile from the protected nest -- © Charel Klein

Ringing young Montagu's Harrier -- © Charel Klein

First putting a coded ring on a leg -- © Charel Klein

Than sexing the bird by the coloration of the eye whereby grey-bluish is a male and brown is a female -- © Charel Klein

Taking the wing length -- © Charel Klein

And finally the weight -- © Charel Klein

Closer look of every bird to estimate the state of health -- © Charel Klein

Different age stages of the chicks -- © Charel Klein

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