{"id":136,"date":"2008-12-01T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/singwarte_wordpress\/?p=136"},"modified":"2017-06-09T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:12:40","slug":"greifwalder-oie-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Greifwalder Oie I"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 2008<\/strong>
\nDuring October I was at a bird ringing station on a small isle<\/strong> called Greifswalder
\nOie. It is situated in the Baltic Sea in Northeastern Germany.<\/p>\n

For me, this trip offered a complete new view on bird migration<\/strong>. In the area
\naround my hometown Leipzig, bird migration was for me, until now, only visible
\nin the form of large flocks of Cranes and Geese<\/strong>.
\nOn the contrary at this isle I observed mainly songbirds<\/strong> like thrushes, Larks
\nor Finches. One of the most frequent appearing birds on the island were the
\ntiny Goldcrests Regulus regulus <\/em>\u2013 their high pitched calls were omnipresent.<\/p>\n

081012, Goldcrests Regulus regulus<\/em>
\n

During the hourly \u201ccontrol-walks\u201d along the mist nets, I noticed a sound,
\nseemingly of geese, always from the same direction. Once a day, my
\ncompanion Marcus<\/a> mentioned a tree nearby the nets that sounded like
\nWhite-Fronted-Geese Anser albifrons<\/em>. So the mystery sound<\/strong> turned out
\nas the creaking sounds of a tree.<\/p>\n

081022, squeaking tree
\nhttp:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/081022_tree_d_mv_gr-oie_REF-S.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

The acoustic highlight for me were two days of heavy thrush migration<\/strong>.
\nOne morning I walked a bit around, as I noticed hundreds<\/strong> of ascending
\nCommon Blackbirds Turdus merula<\/em>, Song Thrushes T. philomelos<\/em>, Mistle
\nThrushes T. viscivorus<\/em>, Fieldfares T. pilaris<\/em>, Redwings T. iliacus<\/em> and
\na single Ring Ouzel T. torquatus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

081025, songbird migration with: Song Thrush Turdus philomelos<\/em>, Redwing T. iliacus<\/em>, Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis<\/em>,
\nCommon Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs<\/em>, Common Blackbird T. merula<\/em>, Ring Ouzel T. torquatus <\/em>in background Rook Corvus
\nfrugilegus<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/081025_migrating-songbirds_d_mv_gr-oie_REF-S.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

photo credit:<\/strong>
\nsouthern meadow, Greifwalder Oie \u00a9 Marcus Held | After Nature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 2008 During October I was at a bird ringing station on a small isle called Greifswalder Oie. It is situated in the Baltic Sea in Northeastern Germany. For me, this trip offered a complete new view on bird migration. In the area around my hometown Leipzig, bird migration was for me, until now, only… Continue reading Greifwalder Oie I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,16,12,30,9,13,23,34],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-autumn","tag-baltic-sea","tag-bird-banding","tag-bird-migration","tag-field-trip","tag-islands","tag-offshore","tag-rural-germany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}