Bird of the Year 2018: Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

2016: Great Tit (Parus major)
2018: Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
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Re: Bird of the Year 2018: Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

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21 May
Since 3:27 no Cc to heard but Nightjar, Ural Owl
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~5:55 flight noise of Cc, but not visible any.
Will leave operators desk
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Good morning :hi:

6:54 Ural Owl call

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I am not sure what kind of this bird was. A Mistle thrush? It landed in the lower left corner of the screen, only partial visible, and quickly flew up again. It made some soft calls unknown to me.
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22:32 There is some activity in the new black and white view.
A short time later a singing Nightjar for a long time.
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May 22

No Capercaillies again this morning?
(I started my computer very early this morning but the next moment it was three hours later.)
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Good Morning :wave:

Time flies like in flight... You would have to have a second camera in the breeding area ... I'm already starting to dream, Urmas :blush:
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UteL. wrote: May 22nd, 2018, 8:59 am ... You would have to have a second camera in the breeding area ... I'm already starting to dream, Urmas :blush:
Aren't there enough webcams already? Camera's and accompanying equipment are very expensive and it will cost already a lot of money to make this cam reliable.
A capercallie nest is difficult to find. Then you have to make it visible, place a camera at it etc. The breeding season is over before you start viewing.
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I know, I know... sorry , the hens all have their own area, right Hagnat? But maybe there is also an own research project about it?
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22:45 In the last 30 minutes or so there is some action. Mainly wings heard.
The only visible action is from a spider on the camera.
23:10 Singing Nightjar not far away.
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May 23

(07:15) I opened the cam around 05:15 and have not seen or heard any Capercaillie since.

~08:53 Species nr 53: Wood warbler - Phylloscopus sibilatrix
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I have been operating today from 4am to 6:30.
Unfortunately no Cc on cam. Just some flying in the air.
So I had time to test some technical settings of the camera.
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May 24
4:08 Cc flies from tree to the ground left, out of view. Feeding a bit on bilberry leaves and stays watching around. Close view.
4:34 starts to feed, some steps and stays again
4:48 some movement (difficult to follow by operator)
Later standing on fallen pine
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Good morning!

Here he is

4.57

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6:00 PeterZ will take over operation of cam, male in view
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4:39 - 4:45 almost no moving, he listens into the forest

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From the saved video found new species singing i distance (not usual for that habitat, but there is an opening in forest in right side):
Common Rosefinch - Carpodacus erythrinus - karmiinleevike
5:06:57
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Urmas wrote: May 24th, 2018, 12:16 pm From the saved video found new species singing i distance (not usual for that habitat, but there is an opening in forest in right side):
Common Rosefinch - Carpodacus erythrinus - karmiinleevike
5:06:57
It doesn't surprise me at all. Added as number 54 to the list.

Btw. Yesterday I heard on the Põgari-Sassi cam a Northern wheatear including several times a clear mimic of Rosefinch it its song.
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Urmas wrote: May 24th, 2018, 12:16 pm From the saved video found new species singing i distance (not usual for that habitat, but there is an opening in forest in right side):
Common Rosefinch - Carpodacus erythrinus - karmiinleevike
5:06:57
so sweet :D

Although it can adapt to a number of different habitats such as bogs and deciduous forests or semi-open landscapes and mixed forests, it has become very rare in Germany: From 600 to 950 areas go out the ornithologists, two copies NABU fellows sighted at the hour of garden birds 2017. It feeds on seeds and buds, and its range extends from Central Europe via Turkey, Iran and beyond the Himalayas to Kamchatka.

https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Planet-W ... d=49884426
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Rosefinch can be heard on many Estonian and Latvian webcams.
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