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Great Egret - first breeding at Lake Kvismare

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 06/06/2025 - 14:05

Two Great Egret chicks in their nest at Lake Kvismare. Photo: Niels van der Velde

Great egrets (Ardea alba) have been observed at Kvismaren for several years. In the summer of 2025, they are breeding here for the first time! The bird observatory staff have located a colony with five nests. When the chicks are old enough, they will be ringed.

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Field season 2022 has started!

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 00:42

The first members of this years staff has arrived to the Bird Observatory and the field season has started. The beginning of the field season has included surveys of starling broods in nest boxes in the area, and surveys of wetland birds in the different areas of the nature reserve.

2019-09-27 (Dagbok)

Submitted by staff on Fri, 09/27/2019 - 14:05

Staff: Kiki Bairaktaridou (KKB), Maxence Ferrand (MHF), Javier Baron (JBO), Mario Navarro (MRN).

Weather: Cloudy

Projects: RINGING
We have been in Vallen today, 60 new birds ringed and 7 recaptures of 8 species

2019-09-26 (Dagbok)

Submitted by staff on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 11:10

Staff: Kiki Bairaktaridou (KKB), Maxence Ferrand (MHF), Javier Baron (JBO), Mario Navarro (MRN).

Weather: Foggy
Projects: RINGING
We have been in Banvallen today, 11 new birds ringed and 4 recaptures of 6 species

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Starling

In 1988, 100 Starling nest-boxes were placed in four groups around in Kvismaren. The project is being conducted under the project PMK (Project for environmental quality monitoring) at the Environmental Protection Agency through the University of Lund. These nest-boxes, which are managed by the Bird Observatory, have been monitored thoroughly so that number of pairs and breeding results could be calculated.

Tranor. Foto: Magnus Friberg

Cranes and geese

In recent years nesting greylag geese, along with the number of geese and cranes on passage has increased significantly in Kvismaren. The first species reaching large numbers during migration was bean geese in the early 1980's. The geese that stop over in Kvismaren are mainly taiga bean geese and are in the area from September to November. Then they fly south to their wintering grounds in Scania and Denmark and then return to their major stop over sites between February and March before they move on, to Finland and Russia.

Marsh harrier. Photo Magnus Friberg

Marsh harrier

Even before the Bird Observatory started, (from 1954) there were counts of breeding pairs of Hen and Marsh Harriers within the reserve. The breeding of Hen Harriers ended after the year 1962 but the number of pairs of the Marsh Harrier has developed positively. Over the years there have been many studies including territoriality, breeding biology and population monitoring.