Friday, January 7, 2022

2021 Totals

 The new year is upon us and it's time to analyze the results and achievements. For me personally, this was the most successful year in terms of the number of ringed birds and new species.

In this post, I'll include only the bird ring at my usual site in NW Bulgaria.

Most of the ringing was during the autumn migration, but I also put some effort into nest monitoring/ringing which gave good results(compared to previous years). Unfortunately, my nestboxes had very low success and I couldn't ring any Semicollared flycatchers (Ficedula semitorquata).

Species
S.atricapilla - 294
T.merula - 88
E. rubecula - 41
Ph. trochilus - 38
L. collurio - 26
P. caeruleus - 22
P.major - 21
A. trivialis - 21
A. caudatus - 16
T. philomelos - 15
S. curruca - 13
P.lugubris - 12
S. borin - 11
S.communis - 9
L. megarhynchos - 9
Ph. sibilatrix - 8
C.coccothraustes - 6
S. europaea - 5
E.citrinella - 5
Ph.collybita - 5
F.coelebs - 5
P. palustris - 5
C. chloris - 5
M. striata - 5
D. minor - 2
M. apiaster - 2
Ph. phoenicurus - 2
H. icterina - 1
O. scops - 1
D. major - 1
R. ignicapilla - 1
T. troglodytes - 1
A. schoenobaenus - 1

Total: 691
Species: 33

In the pictures below you can see the highlights of 2021.

I wish you all very successful 2022!

Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)

Turdus philomelos nest

Sitta europaea nest

Turdus merula nest

Male Turdus merula

Otus scops

Otus scops

Fringilla coelebs nest

Turdus philomelos hatchling

Parus lugubris hatchling

Coccothraustes coccothraustes hatchling

Cyanistes caeruleus nest

Sylvia atricapilla nest

Alauda arvensis nest

Emberiza cirlus nest

Lanius collurio nest

Sylvia atricapilla hatchlings

Lanius collurio nest

Sylvia atricapilla nest

Sylvia atricapilla hatchlings

Lanius collurio hatchling

Lanius collurio hatchings

Male Lanius collurio

Phylloscopus trochilus and Phylloscopus sibilatrix

Phylloscopus trochilus and Phylloscopus sibilatrix

Muscicapa striata

Phylloscopus sibilatrix

Birds ready to be processed

Male Sylvia atricapilla with very pale plumage

Male Sylvia atricapilla with very pale plumage

Merops apiaster

Merops apiaster

Erithacus rubecula

Muscicapa striata with strangely colored legs

Regulus ignicapilla

Troglodytes troglodytes

Parus major

Male Coccothraustes coccothraustes

Emberiza citrinella

Chloris chloris






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