Birds

Tracking shorebirds in the Wadden Sea. An impression of the WATLAS fieldwork 2020 by Aileen Roncoroni. Follow our work via the WATLAS info page.

JUN 2020 | 'Saving the Places Migratory Birds Call Home', a production of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Center for Conservation Media. Tracking global movement.

Bird feeding at Banc d’Arguin, Mauretania. 'Male knot Yellow Green' is spotted three times by same researcher, 8,500 kilometres apart.

APR 2020 | Jan van Gils and Job ten Horn are catching a male Knot in Tamyr in the summer of 2019. It takes a lot of patience.

DEC 2015 | Core of this research are the global role of intertidal mud flats which become dry around low tide for waders in their life cycle.

OCT 2015 | The Experimental Shorebird Facility shows an experiment that we designed to answer the question: Do Red Knots use each other for food?

DEC 2014 | The elegant movements of two individual Plovers above farmland. They are flying separately from each other (probably as part of two small groups).

SEP 2014 | NWO Spinoza Laureate Theunis Piersma follows the life cycle of migratory birds. Bird behaviour more often than thought is a reaction to...

SEP 2014 | In the 'Nieuwe Kerk' in The Hague, Theunis Piersma announced his research plans with the NWO Spinoza award (in Dutch).

JUN 2014 | Theunis Piersma studies migratory birds. Mainly Wadden and farmland birds like the Black-tailed Godwit and the Ruff.

2013 March | This experiment was designed to study patch departure decisions for red knots foraging in a patchy food environment.

JAN 2012 | A gull is flying more than 300 kilometers on one day from Texel to Amsterdam. Kees Camphuysen in the VPRO series 'The Netherlands from above'.