Photos Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 06.12.2017

Bullfinch

Bullfinch    Leevike     Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Most of the bullfinches that nested in Estonia have migrated southwards in the last few months and have now been replaced by migrants from the north and east who mostly remain during the winter – it is their activities that we notice now.

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
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Estonian text posted 06.12.2017

Jackal; Golden jackal      Šaakal or harilik šaakal     Canis aureus

The jackals were missing from camera view for some days. Were the IR lamps actually ”visible” to the sensitive canines or did they sense them in some other way?

Photos Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 01.12.2017

Overnight location of jackdaws and crows

Jackdaw     Hakk           Corvus monedula

Jackdaws arrive to Estonia for winter from their northern and north-eastern breeding areas and in places can create an atmosphere of the film ”Birds” by Alfred Joseph Hitchcock …

Photos Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 02.12.2017

Pine marten

Pine marten     Metsnugis       Martes martes

Pine martens inhabit quite different types of woods with dense undergrowth, also areas with shrubs (such as hazels or junipers).

Photo Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 02.12.2017

Boar

Wild boar      Metssiga        Sus scrofa

The life of wild boars without swine fever continues only in Hiiumaa and some smaller islands as for instance Naissaare. Some boars move on the mainland too, but if they have recovered from the ASF nobody can say or prove as yet.