July 2008 During the last weeks I regularly went to an area called Geiseltal near Merseburg in central Germany. It was a brown coal pit till 1994. Now the area will be transformed to an immense water landscape for all kinds of sports and freetime activities. Some animals which life in this really rare type… Continue reading Bee-eaters at Geiseltal
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Wrong!
August 2008 Earlier the year Haldensleben (central Germany) based ornithologist Reinhold Brennecke called me to report a local Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra with an aberrant song. The bird would have two different kinds of song – one similar to the Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella and in addition a mixed song containing Yellowhammer and Corn Bunting elements.… Continue reading Wrong!
Singwarte nature sound recording camp
July 2008 In June the Singwarte Nature Sound Recording Camp took place in a small village called Süplingen near Magdeburg, East-Germany. A small group of fellow sound recordists stayed at a local camping site. From there we started our daily trips into the adjacent forest and the so called Colbitz-Letzlinger-Heide – a military area which… Continue reading Singwarte nature sound recording camp
Atypical sylvia warbler songs I
July 2008 Last year a Leipzig based birder pointed me at two warblers with atypical songs. So we went out to make some sound recordings for documentation purposes. We identified them phenotypically as Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla and Garden Warbler Sylvia borin. 070624, Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla, atypical song, Torgau, Germany 070624, Garden Warbler Sylvia borin,… Continue reading Atypical sylvia warbler songs I