Writers of children books has understood it! Crow is an exiting bird and there are a lot of possibilities in personal characters in the Crow. A Swedish paper shows that 15 new children books are involving crows and only 2 or 3 books involves Sparrow or Ducks.
Sjekk opp denne spennende artikkelen fra Angelica Risberg i Svenska Dagbladet i dag. Et boksøk gav 15 treff på kråke kontra to - tre treff for Gråspurv eller Stokkand (and). Det Svenske barnebokmarkedet invaderes av nye kråkebøker! Barnebokforfatterene ser ut til å ha forstått hvor spennende fugl vår intelligente kråke er! ... og hvilket vell av muligheter i personlighetsregisteret som finnes å spinne på for de som vil fordype seg i en kråke kontra en spurv!
An other great and older hero is soon celebrating 300 years. Carl August von Linnè is also online. The real grand man of taxa. The Scandinavian scientist most known as a botanist but also a number one in Nordic butterflies and moths. Every times I see a Twinflower Linnea borealis my thoughts goes to Carl August. His Lapland studies and his Norwegian disciples gave us a father person and the founder of Norwegian botanical heritage. Thus also worth wile a Norwegian celebration.
Far behind Charles Darwin in field-book writing? At least in interestingness!
Thanks for the interesting Darwin links in Norwegian Birdlife.
An Utsira Crow who was partial melangistic and named 'white-wing' has become a main character in a Children Book 'Fabel Jakob' by Grete Randsborg Jenseg. The third book in the Fabel Jakob story is published today on the Crows Day! Fabel Jakob, havet og den lille melketanna
Kvit-vingen var på Utsira høsten 2002 til våren 2003. Sist sett 16. januar 2003. En annen 'hvitvinge' med mindre hvitt på vingen gjestet Utsira ved en senere anledning.
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This bird was the first known Sykes's Warbler in Norway. It's origeon and final statment has been interesting and ended as a paper in 2005. I'm greatfull for Lars Svenssons ecpertise and help.
Sykes Warbler Hippolais rama new to Norway at Mønstermyr nearby Flekkefjord in Vest-Agder County, the 20. September 1997.
Being situated resident at Utsira it’s regarded as direct stupid to leave the island in end of September. But life is empty without a trip to Flekkefjord in Vest-Agder my home county. Need too have a week with studies of migrating Raptors and take part in ringing activity at Mønstermyr, my local patch in Flekkefjord. This trip resulted in a ringed Sykes Warbler and new specie for Norway .
Only three weeks earlier I had sighted the third record of Booted Warbler for Utsira on the 29. and 31. August. 1997. The Mønstermyr – bird showed similarities with the Booted Warbler on Utsira in coloration, white on outermost tail-feathers and light edgings on secondaries. But the bird also showed total difference in jizz, shape and colour of bill, and primary projection. When the bird was realised it came with a soft Silvia-like ’tak’ sound.
Measurements, size, and shape of bill concluded that the bird showed character of a Syke’s Warbler.
The paper also involves geographical dispersal, and other records in Western parts of Western Palearctic. The paper involves accepted Syke’s Warblers, birds with staus like Syke’s/Booted, and Syke’s like birds accepted as Booted Warblers.
The identification are based on:
1. The Acro-impression, jizz and structure with flat forehead fine and long bill. Angrier faced expression due to flat forehead, light on lores, short supercilium, in field without coronal-stripe and broken and not obvious eye-ring. Total different from the more kindly expression of Booted Warbler that shows more Phylloscopus-impression
2. Shape and structure of bill, bright yellow out on tip of under-mandible.
3. White edgings on outermost tail feather, and light wing-panel on secondaries.
4. Longer primary-projection than the Booted Warbler at Utsira..
A short introduction of my local patch in Flekkefjord:
The former mire/marshland are newly opened with open dikes and are today a landscape for producing grass for cattle. Mønstermyr stands out as a green oasis in the gold coastal landscape 300 meters above sea level. There are free sights to Lista fyr in Vest-Agder County and Sokendal in Rogaland County . During the autumn seasons from 1990 to 1995 there are ringed over 32.600 birds which gives 97 birds’ pr day. Main species are Willow Warbler, Redpoll, Goldcrest, Robin, Reed Bunting, and Redwing all represented with over 2000 ind. during the six years. My local patch has also produced three firsts for Vest-Agder County : one Arctic Warbler ringed 1. Sept. 1991, one Yellow-breasted Bunting ringed 2. Sept. 1991, and an Olive-backed Pipit ringed on the 25. Sept. 1993. Mønstermyr is also one of Norway ’s best sites for counting migrating Raptors. During autumn seasons 1990 to 1995 there passed over 8000 migrating Raptors.
Atle Grimsby, 5547 Utsira, atgrims@yahoo.no
Their parents are "Apha-pairs" and stays together as long they live (about 20-25 years?) There are about 15 breeding pairs at Utsira. And the best alphapairs breeds 4 chics a year. Staturs report is publiced in Yearbok 00-01 of Utsira Birdstation. Only two Utsira chicks has been found at Mainland in Haugesund killed two and four years old.
