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Germany North Rhine-westphalia

Little Owl Athene noctua ©Nigel Blak http://www.nigelblake.co.uk/

North Rhine-Westphalia

useful information

State Bird

Little Owl Athene noctua

clubs

*Proact North-Rhine Westphalia

http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team
Coordinators: David Conlin (International) david.conlin@proact-campaigns.net
Local (Vacant)
Members: 3 Join us at the URL above

Federation of German Avifaunists (Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten e.V. - DDA)

http://www.dda-web.de
The Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten e.V. (DDA) is an umbrella organisation for all German avifaunists. The website contains a wealth of information about the DDA and its monitoring programmes. Here you will find advice and information on bird registration and recording projects, some initial results and completed publications, details of competent local contacts or up to date avifaunistic information and schedules.
(translation by David Conlin translations@david-conlin.de)

Hagen [Westphalia] - Bund für Vogelschutz und Vogelkunde e.V. Herdecke und Hagen

http://home.t-online.de/home/tim.ba/BfVHome.htm
Nature protection and ornithology in the central Ruhr Valley of Westphalia, Germany, centred on the towns of Hagen, Herdecke and Wetter. BfV Programm (our current programme); BfV Homepage (with some pictures) and BfV Cinclus (which has an index to the last 15 years of our magazine). BfVHome has some information about our society and what we do, a list of officers, some links etc. We are hoping include details of sightings, but we are not that far advanced yet. Cinclus is our annual report and we hope to include the latest issue soon.

NABU Neuss

http://www.nabu-neuss.de
Useful birder information from the Neuss (near Duesseldorf) area

North-Rhine Westphalia Ornithological Association

http://www.nw-ornithologen.de/
With more than 1,200 members, the Association ensures that the needs of the regional bird world receive the attention they deserve from politicians and society as a whole. In 1998 the Rhine Ornithological Association and the Westphalia Ornithological Association, which had been separated for over 30 years, merged into a single society...

observatories

Biological Station for the Western Ruhr Region

http://www.bswr.de
...covering 6 Germany Ordnance Survey 1:25:000 map sheets: the right bank of the Lower Rhine, Duisburg and Oberhausen, parts of Ratingen and Dinslaken. In German only but comprehensive species of all that flies and creeps. Literature to download, and event news...

Biological Station Krickenberger Lakes

http://www.bsks.de
Homepage of the Biological Station Krickenbecker Seen, also in Dutch - All Biological stations on the Lower Rhine are linked with one another. This site has topical information on geese numbers and an archive...

Wesel District Biological Station

http://www.bskw.de/
The Wesel District Biological Station (BKSW) was founded in 1984 by committed conservationists of the BUND and NABU nature protection organisations. The station's main task is the collection and collation of data on the regional flora and fauna...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bergischer Ornithologen (ABO)

http://members.aol.com/ABOHeft/Page2.html
... modest site from the relatively bird-poor, hilly Bergisch Land, includes sporadic observations from the Wahner Heide heath, my local patch...

Bird Sightings from the Lower Rhine

http://www.vogelmeldung.de
(In German only) Regularly updated sightings from nature reserves and other birding sites in the German Lower Rhine region. The website is coordinated by the Krickenbecker lakes Biological Station and sponsored by the Promotion of the Krickenbecker Lakes Association.

Birds Bochum – the birding page for the Ruhr industrial conurbation

http://www.birds-bo.de/main.htm
Here you will find (in German) the ornithological highlights of the West Germany ‘Black Country’ and when and where to watch birds. It gives useful tips for the different sites (which will appear here in English at a later date) such as when to take a scope, gumboots etc., Maps of the sites (via a map server) and sightings over the past few year are also shown (Click on ‘Daten’ for monthly sightings with archive). Please contact us direct if you need more detailed information (see ‘Kontakt’ on the website menu). Top site is the Kemnader See with regularly good numbers of Mallard, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Garganey, Wigeon, Shoveler, Pintail and other duck species. In 2002 alone Red-necked and Black-necked Grebe, Red-throated Diver and Whooper Swan were recorded here. Waders such as Oystercatcher, Avocet, Dunlin und others are seen in small numbers on passage. In the past few years Velvet Scoter, Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Knot, Temminck's Stint, Little Stint, Little Egret, Glaucous Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Caspian Tern, Bluethroat and Leach's Petrel have been sighted.

Birds in the Münster area

http://www.msorni.de
(In German only) Here you will find everything worth knowing about birds in Muenster and vicinity. This includes up to date sightings, information on good birding areas, a good link collection with our comments and much more…