The Eider Duck and the Spoonbill in the Netherlands
The first record of the eider breeding in the Netherlands was a report in 1906 by the German ornithologist, O. Leege. He gave the site as the island of Vlieland, north-east of Texel. Few further such observations were made until 1925 when I myself estimated the total number of breeding females on Viieland as ten, chiefly in the western part. Since then protective measures have been taken. A keeper has regularly visited the reserved area, eggs have been protected from herring gulls as far as possible, and when a breeding bird has accidentally been flushed, her eggs have been covered up with dow... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 1954 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | Oryx ; volume 2, issue 6, page 379-380 ; ISSN 0030-6053 1365-3008 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27627206 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003060530003711x |
The first record of the eider breeding in the Netherlands was a report in 1906 by the German ornithologist, O. Leege. He gave the site as the island of Vlieland, north-east of Texel. Few further such observations were made until 1925 when I myself estimated the total number of breeding females on Viieland as ten, chiefly in the western part. Since then protective measures have been taken. A keeper has regularly visited the reserved area, eggs have been protected from herring gulls as far as possible, and when a breeding bird has accidentally been flushed, her eggs have been covered up with down.