Latest newsBrown rat in front of badger burrow. All, birds as well as small mammals, seem to regard death outside or inside the predator's burrow as the natural course of things.
Video: Tiit Hunt
Posted by the Animal of the Year team, 01.09.2016
In the Latvian badger cameras it has been noted that badgers are not only twilight creatures but can also come out on a warm summer day to enjoy the sun and groom the coat. The Latvians are also using the camera to study the hierarchy of the clan; evidently we will hear more about this in the future.
Video: Latvian Museum of Natural History / Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava
Posted by the Animal of the Year team
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
Itinerary
Englishwoman Sacha Dench will follow Bewick’s swans by paramotor on their migration from the breeding grounds in the Russian tundra through 11 countries. The length of the journey to reach the wintering areas of many Bewick’s swans in UK is about 7500 km.
Preliminarily the participants should be in Estonia on October 9th–13th, visiting Matsalu, Luitemaa and Tartu. The number of Bewick’s swans has been reduced by about half in the last twenty years. The number of the subspecies (Cygnus columbianus bewickii) that passes Estonia during the autumn migration is estimated at up to 18000 individuals.
Read more about the expedition: LINK
Text and photos Aare Lindt, www.loodusmuuseum.ee
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September thorn
September thorn Tamme-sügisvaksik Ennomos erosarius
The September thorn is present in all of Estonia and is locally common. The moths fly in oak forests, broadleaf forests, parks and gardens in August and September.
Information from Estonian Environment Agency
Photo: Arne Ader
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Photo of migrant hawker.
Last Friday the Kabli Bird Station finished the seasonal preparation work and the autumn migration of birds was officially opened.
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