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Hello, here we are again live from the Amur Bird Project at Muraviovka Park!
Our team included in June up to seven participants from Germany and Russia. We worked on many different tasks.
With this video we want to show what happened during the last weeks.
With the end of the migration season we closed down our mist-nets and work now only with the local breeding bird species.
Many rare species have been found, like the almost unknown Chinese Bush Warbler.
It's easy to miss this species because of his unconspicious insect-like song.
We mainly focussed on Reed Warblers - some realy rare species are presumed to inhabit this area.
For this we surveyed different sites with reeds on several places within Muraviovka Park, using mist-nets and tape lure.
Until now only the common species - Black-browed, Oriental and Thick-billed Reed Warbler - have been found.
The Cuckoo is watching the Reed Warblers, too - because it want to lay its eggs in the warbler's nest.
Many exciting birds have been observed in the hardly accessible areas - like the Moorhen.
Last year we found the first breeding pair of this species for the region.
Most of the birds have chicks now. We check the breeding sites to collect data on breeding success
and ring the young birds to learn about colonisation and migratory behaviour of the local populations.
Happily, a pair of Kingfisher built their nesting hole on our artificial breeding site.
Franziska is working on the usage of Magpie nests- not only Magpies are breeding there,
but also Tree Sparrow, Amur Falcon, Hobby, Daurian Jackdaw and Long-eared Owl.
Furthermore we found a new colony of the Eastern Rook.
Cheering is the population of the Oriental Stork in 2013. Almost all of the 12 breeding pairs have chicks now.
Peter found a nest of the Hoopoe and we were able to ring the chicks.
Highlights of our work have been the summer camps, which are organized at Muraviovka Park every year.
Local children learn from Russian and American teachers about ecology, the value of wetlands and can improve their english skills.
We worked with the children about bird migartion and bird ecology and they got the chance to watch us ringing birds.
All in all it was a great international week, and we learned a lot from each other.
Weekly news are still to be found on our blog.
Thank you and good bye!