Photos Arne Ader

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Estonian text posted 24.01.2019

Goshawk at capercaillie carcass

Goshawk; Northern goshawk     Kanakull       Accipiter gentilis

Urban people meet goshawks increasingly often. In winter migrants from the east and north add to the birds that have nested here and so they are even more easily seen.

Why then in the city where they have also started to  nest? Simply in order to catch prey more easily. In winter there is no lack of domestic pigeons or jackdaws and other corvids in cities.

Estonian Ornithological Society announces
Photo Reet Sau
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Estonian text posted 02.01.2019

Nightjar      Öösorr       Caprimulgus europaeus

Estonian Ornithological Society invites you to participate

Estonian text posted 23.01.2019

On the last weekend of January, January 25th – 27th, all who are  interested can join the winter garden bird survey.

At the weekend you have to find an hour, go to your home garden or a park and note all the bird species that you meet there. Please enter the observations on the corresponding form. Read how to take part in the bird count.

The data collected in the winter bird survey will be used to monitor changes in the number of winter birds which, if necessary,  allows us to take action to improve the welfare of the birds  Moreover it is a nice way to learn to know the winter garden birds.

Photos  Ahto Täpsi
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Estonian text posted 18.01.2019

The winter dens of our bears may look very different

Brown bear       Pruunkaru or  karu        Ursus arctos

In the Estonian forests brown bears started to give birth already before Christmas and it lasts until the end of the month. Of our bear population of nearly seven hundred individuals this year sixty bear mothers should give birth to cubs or have already done so.