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Eyes and Ears Everywhere
It is early July, and most Arctic shorebirds should be on their breeding grounds by now. Jeroen Reneerkens of the University of Groningen has studied breeding Sanderling since 2003 and has just returned from Zackenberg in northeast Greenland where it would appear to be a non-breeding season due to excessive spring snowfall. He surmises that hardly any shorebirds will breed this year along the entire east coast of Greenland
As so many of his colour-ringed birds are seen here in the Outer Hebrides, Jeroen has asked if observers here could help document the extent of the effects of this unusual Arctic summer by counting the number of juvenile and adult Sanderling when they have returned from the Arctic.
Counts can be emailed directly to Jeroen at j.w.h.reneerkens@rug.nl or sightings@outerhebridesbirds.org.uk
You can read more about what Jeroen witnessed in the last half of June in Greenland: here
As so many of his colour-ringed birds are seen here in the Outer Hebrides, Jeroen has asked if observers here could help document the extent of the effects of this unusual Arctic summer by counting the number of juvenile and adult Sanderling when they have returned from the Arctic.
Counts can be emailed directly to Jeroen at j.w.h.reneerkens@rug.nl or sightings@outerhebridesbirds.org.uk
You can read more about what Jeroen witnessed in the last half of June in Greenland: here