Bird race in the Oder Valley

114 species dis­cov­ered in 24 hours (09.05.2011)

 

For the sec­ond time, in coöper­a­tion with the Asso­ci­a­tion of Friends of the Ger­­man-Pol­ish Euro­pean Nation­al Park Unteres Oder­tal e. V. a “Bir­drace” also takes place in the Low­er Oder Val­ley, in which a group of ornithol­o­gists must dis­cov­er and name as many bird species as pos­si­ble with­in 24 hours.

 

Last Sat­ur­day (May 7th, 2011) four Berlin­ers suc­cess­ful­ly went “bird hunt­ing” in the Low­er Oder Val­ley. As part of a nation­wide obser­va­tion com­pe­ti­tion, Mar­tin Malk­mus, Tobias Schäfer, Andreas Wirs­ing and Sev­erin Zil­lich record­ed all bird species from mid­night until late in the evening that they could dis­cov­er on a route from Fel­chowsee via Criewen and Schwedt north to the Teero­fen Bridge. In the end, 114 species were on her list, includ­ing rar­i­ties such as the spot­ted moorhen and the lit­tle moorhen, both species are threat­ened with extinc­tion in Ger­many, as well as the bit­tern, bit­tern and black stork. The bird con­nois­seurs had a lot of fun with the campaign.

The bird race in the Oder Val­ley served two good pur­pos­es. The aim was to pro­mote the pro­tec­tion of the only Ger­man flood­plain nation­al park and, with the sup­port of the GmbH des BUND e. V. (Fed­er­a­tion for Envi­ron­ment and Nature Con­ser­va­tion Ger­many) to col­lect dona­tions for the con­struc­tion of the inter­net por­tal ornitho.de, which is sup­posed to serve the pro­tec­tion of birds.

More about the results of the “Bir­drace 2011” at www.dda-birdrace.de In the attach­ment you will find a pho­to of the bird watch­ing on 7.5.2011.
 

Thomas Berg
CEO