Field updates
Kite, Kite, Kite! Optics and unusual birds at the halfway mark
At the halfway mark of our 18th autumn count, unusual kites keep us looking closely. Thanks to Kite Optics, our team has the equipment to follow the flight.
Field updates
Kite, Kite, Kite Optics
Kite, kite, KITE! We’d like to give a big shout-out to our sponsor this year, Kite Optics, for the T-shirts and optics.
Reports & Research
New publication: Opportunistic in-flight foraging behaviour of Black Kites during spring migration
The most recent autumn issue of the Sandgrouse, published by OSME, contains a short paper describing preliminary results of Black Kites obtained during the two BRC spring counts conducted so far.
Field updates
Spring Count Update
Where to start? Well, let's start with the beginning of the day: unlike in autumn, where you are woken up by just the sound of the local rooster calling, in spring he's joined by a choir of feathered friends.
Birds & Birding
Black kite with wingtags spotted
On September the 22nd, when 4257 black kites flew by station 1, we spotted a black kite with wingtags and a transmitter on his back.