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Our news blog offers insights into the latest advancements and activities that are related to the project. You will find the most recent blog entries in the slider below.

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Young Godwit with coloured rings on its legs walking through grass.

At the start of July, an intense and successful field season – with more young birds than we have seen for a long time – is slowly drawing to a close.…

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Large grassland landscape with short vegetation. A large part of the grassland is covered with...

The LIFE IP GrassBirdHabitats project has reached a significant milestone with the publication of a new study that synthesizes practitioner…

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Unsuitable (i.e. overgrown) grassland compared to optimal, wet grassland.

Wet, nutrient-poor grasslands that are not fertilised and are mown late in the season provide ideal breeding habitats for meadow birds. For the…

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Wet grassland. A solar-powered water pump is visible in the foreground.

In search for inspiration and ideas on how to optimise habitats in the breeding grounds of meadow birds in Lower Saxony, the site managers of the LIFE…

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We last reported on the Black-tailed Godwit Amilcar Cabral. The bird was equipped with a GPS transmitter in December 2025 in its wintering grounds in…

A plastic case with a protruding antenna lies on the forest floor.

In the Rheiderland region of Lower Saxony, the Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) named Amilcar Cabral can currently be observed, and its story is…

A red line on an aerial photo shows that the bird is flying back and forth between the inland...

For the Black-tailed Godwit, March is all about new beginnings: large-scale migrations and the first signs of spring in the breeding grounds…

Black-tailed Godwit Henricus seen from the side. An antenna emerges from its back.

Where do migratory birds spend most of the year? For Black-tailed Godwits, the answer lies far beyond their breeding grounds. For a new scientific…

A bird stands in a green meadow with white flowers. A small antenna can be seen on its back.

After a prolonged cold spell, the high temperatures of recent days have brought spring noticeably closer in Lower Saxony – and with it the first…

Vast, open grassland landscape with extensive, shallow water bodies.

The Bingo Environmental Foundation of Lower Saxony has pledged its support for an international nature conservation project to protect meadow birds.…

Aerial photo of a vast and structure-rich wetland landscape.

After a particularly impatient Black-tailed Godwit flew back to Europe from West Africa at the end of October, preparations for departure are now…

Flat landscape with exposed bare soil and few remaining water patches.

In mid-December, the project's third monitoring meeting took place. During this meeting, the project was audited by the EU from a technical…

Johannes Melter, co-founder of our project partner BioCon, long-standing partner of Lower Saxony's LIFE projects for meadow bird conservation, a great…

A man stands in front of a dyke and holds a bird in his hand.

In the framework of the LIFE IP GrassBirdHabitats and LIFE Wiesenvögel NRW projects, we are announcing an exciting postdoc vacancy at the University…

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News blog

What's new?

After the breeding season is before the breeding season

A milestone for wetland bird conservation

What does it cost to manage grassland for meadow birds?

Exchange in the Eemland

Update: A special find

Tagged Black-tailed Godwit “Amilcar Cabral” likely preyed upon

A special find

Black-tailed Godwit recently tagged in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, arrives in the Rheiderland, Germany

Finally arrived: Black-tailed Godwits settle in

Black-tailed Godwit March update

Transmitter birds help to identify key staging and wintering areas

More than 200,000 locations analysed

Where are our transmitter birds?

First Black-tailed Godwit spotted at Lake Dümmer

Bingo for meadow bird conservation

International funding strengthens migratory birds between Lower Saxony and West Africa

January as a Black-tailed Godwit

Preparations for departure and cold feet

Mid-term review at the monitoring meeting

EU audit, exchange of best practices, and looking ahead

Mourning for Johannes Melter

26.01.1959 - 13.11.2025

Postdoc position on agroecological assessment of farm business models

Apply now until 1 February 2026