Published:
14:00 Friday 14 September 2018
There was
great excitement when the Hauxley Bird Ringing Group caught an Arctic warbler
on Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Hauxley Nature Reserve – especially as there
are only about five records in the UK each year. Arctic warblers breed in the
far north of Fennoscandia and northern Asia. It is believed that the birds that
reach Britain will most likely have bred in eastern Russia before migrating to
South East Asia in the autumn – so this one was well off course. The ringers
visit the Hauxley reserve each spring and autumn and are part of The Constant
Effort Sites Scheme, the first national standardised ringing programme that is
supported by the British Trust for Ornithology and the Joint Nature
Conservation Committee.
Source:
Source:
No comments:
Post a Comment