Breaking news: 1st🏆 tagged #Bewick's swan in 🇩🇪! Bonnie (035T) left 🇱🇻 yesterday at 3 a.m. and reached the 🇩🇪🇩🇰 border region around 6 p.m. the same day: ~1700km in 15hrs!💨 She has just been spotted near Niebüll (S-H) in a flock of 25.

**Blyth's Pipit (Mongolsk Piber)!!** On the 22nd day of its stay at Grenen, we were able to ring this beauty. 😍 It's just the 5th record for Denmark and the first one ringed! It's very nice to see all the relevant features and its lost tail feathers growing! pics: Simon Kiesé

Bewicks with 4 juvs!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Seen while undertaking swan counts not too far away from Skagen Bird Observatory this afternoon. Keep posted.

Some of my favourites from 2023! Seeing 5,000 roosting Bewick's swans with Lisa Vergin in Germany. To Islay staying with David Dinsley, Faroe Islands with @Cateden91 & Iceland with Scott Petrek & Stephen Vickers Fun & lovely times with the best company 💫

#HappyNewYear to all of you!🤍 Thank you for all of your support during the year! We are looking forward to sharing our experiences with you in 2024! ✨ #nofireworks #littleauk

Another first-ever this winter: 360E (Steffen) has gone to Northern Scotland! He left NL towards the north on 9 Feb, steared west and rested at sea on the morning of the 10th. He is currently staying just south of Mintlaw. Anybody know people there that could go and look him up?

The newest data has come in just now...! He left the region yesterday afternoon and arrived in Belgium early this morning (took a rest at sea near Norwich). Quite extraordinary....

Yesterday morning 219 Goldcrests (Fuglekonge) were ringed at Kabeltromlen! 🤩 We also had 6 recaptures, one of which (pictured) came all the way from The Netherlands! 🇳🇱 #goldcrest #fuglekonge #birdking #birdobservatory #skagenfuglestation #skagen #denmark #birds #regulusregulus

Two stunning adult (one female and one male) Eurasian Sparrowhawks (Spurvehøg) were ringed at Kabeltromlen on the 28th of March. They both posed very nicely for their photoshoots as you can see😍 #sparrowhawk #spurvehøg #hawk #accipiter #birding #birdringing #skagenfuglestation

The 3rd ever Mistle Thrush (Mistel Drossel) ringed for our bird observatory on March 29th!🤩 #mistlethrush #misteldrossel #turdusviscivorus #skagenfuglestation #denmark #birdobservatory #thrush #birding #birdringing #birdbanding #birdlovers #ornithology #skagen

This morning we caught a flock of 12 Coal Tits (Sortmejse)! #coaltit #sortmejse #titbird #birdmigration #migration #migratorybirds #skagen #denmark #birdringing #birdbanding #birdobservatory #birds #bird #birdlovers #skagenfuglestation #detgråfyr #mejse #periparusater

🐦 Countdown to #WorldMigratoryBirdDay: 1 week! 🌍 Aarhus University's latest research uses GPS to track #TaigaBeanGeese, exploring how they adapt to an evolving landscape with new energy solutions.🌱🔍 Find out more: egmp.aewa.info/news/detail/ne… #AdaptiveManagement #WMBD2024

Fuglefestival 2024! 🎊 The Bird Festival 2024 in Skagen just ended and we look back on some amazing days! Thanks to everyone for the nice lectures, conversations and birds - thanks vor visiting!! 🤗🦅

Amazing song of a Blyth’s Reed Warbler. Despite its rather dull appearance it is a great imitator! 6th of June minimum 4 Blyth’s were singing in the area. Video by Søren Leth-Nissen

Last night we managed to catch our first European Storm-petrel (Stormsvale) of the year! It was well worth the wait. This is our ninth Petrel caught at the station, with 8 European Storm-Petrels and 1 Leach's Storm Petrel (Stor Stormsvale) being caught between 2021 and today.

We were lucky enough to witness the Aurora Borealis the other night while attempting to catch storm petrels (Lille Stormsvale) and nightjars (Natravn)! It was incredible to see the swirling colours over the dunes at the Northern Tip of Grenen during this rare occasion!

New paper out in Biogeography.News doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…! We compare some 15 years of GPS tracking and citizen science resighting data of Bewick's swans, to see which contains more information on population space use. GPS data substantially outperform resightings. Nonetheless...

Join our great team in 2025 and help us monitoring the amazing bird mogration at Skagen! We happily receive applications for spring, summer and autumn 2025 ASAP. Send your application to [email protected] before your friend does! Read more here on our website: skagenfuglestation.dk/english/bokssm…

A crazy migration day in Skagen: 9 yellow-billed divers, 1 great northern diver and leach's storm petrel!

It was great to see Lisa Vergin at her field site today monitoring Taiga Bean Geese. Watching an incredible flock of 100+ birds feeding with Barnacles, a couple of Pink feet + a few White fronted geese was a real pleasure. Thank you!! In total, 433 were seen by the team!