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Our news blog offers insights into the latest advancements and activities that are related to the project.

Close-up of a bird being held by a person.

The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) recently published its 28th Artenschutzbrief, a magazine reporting about up-to-date information on current…

Hatched bird chicks sitting on eggshells in between grass.

A project-related study that has been published in Ardea, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, investigated the impact of intensified predator control…

Last year, more than 200 breeding pairs of the rare Black-tailed Godwit nested in the Dümmer marsh, and the species is still present in the Boller…

Corinna Langebrake, our newest team member, started working at the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park Administration (NLPV) last month. Her main…

Last week marked an early surprise as the first Black-tailed Godwit reached Lake Dümmer after spending the last few months in its wintering grounds.…

In order to learn from the respective working practices of the project partners, members of the NLWKN GrassBirdHabitats team visited their project…

A group of people are standing in a cowshed. Cows can be seen in the background. On the right of the picture is a hand-painted wall with various birds.

Since the beginning of 2022, a team of Collectief Súdwestkust is working with a local journalist to publish a column called “Weidevogelman”. With this…

The new website for the LIFE Integrated Project GrassBirdHabitats launched today. It features a more detailed description of the project and the…

A booklet lies open on a table. It shows some parts of this website. Next to it are some hand-written notes.

Within the scope of the LIFE IP GrassBirdHabitats, 24 new Black-tailed Godwits were tagged with GPS transmitters in 2023. One of them is the female…

A map showing southern Portugal and Spain and Morocco. On top of this there is a blue line indicating movement. The line comes from Central Europe, moves towards Portugal, then Morocco, then back to Portugal, then south right through Morocco.

The decline of wet grassland breeding bird populations across Europe, and Germany more specifically, continues unabated. In an effort to address this…

A Lapwing seen from the side. It stands on a small patch of grass surrounded by flat-flooded grassland.

Our recently released press information depicts an exceptional conservation initiative focused on the Common Snipe. Ornithologists from various…

Top-down view of a bird nest on the ground. Inside the nest made from dry grass lie four brown-dotted eggs. Above and to the sides of the nest is tall grass.

Migratory birds fly southwards in autumn to spend the winter in warmer regions. To get there, the birds use different migratory routes. Most…

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Our precursor project LIFE Meadow Birds is coming to an end. Currently, the last measures in the project areas Butjadingen and Dümmer are being…

Three men stand next to each other. The man on the left presents a small booklet that features a Blak-tailed Godwit on the front. The man in the middle looks at the booklet. The man on the right smiles into the camera.

News

News blog

What's new?

Report on imminent threats to meadow birds in France

Improving clutch and chick survival trough predator control

More space for Black-tailed Godwits and fellows at the Dümmer

Team growth in the project: Meet biologist Dr Corinna Langebrake

This year’s arrival of the first Black-tailed Godwit at Lake Dümmer

Project workshop on agriculture and meadow bird conservation

Exchange between Frisian and Lower Saxon partners in Workum

The Meadow Bird Man

Dutch blog "Weidevogelman" for meadow bird awareness

New web presence

The reworked project website launched today

Bird migration is not always straightforward

If you don't succeed at first, try again later

Current status of meadow birds in Germany

New horizon scanning survey published

Like a needle in a haystack

Unveiling the hidden homes of rare Snipes

Are migratory routes inherited?

New findings on Black-tailed Godwit migration

Results booklet on the LIFE project Meadow Birds published

Ten years of nature conservation work on 28 pages