Young great cormorants in the Netherlands

Posted on April 28, 2019 by petrel41

This 19 April 2019 Dutch video is about young great cormorants at their nests in the Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve in the Netherlands.

Young spoonbills born, see them on webcam

Posted on March 27, 2019 by petrel41

This 2014 video from the Netherlands says about itself:

Nest of Eurasian spoonbill or common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) containing eggs and chicks.

Author: Natuur Digitaal (Marc Plomp); Stichting Natuurbeelden

In Dutch nature reserve Nieuwkoopse Plassen, the first young spoonbills of this year’s nesting season have hatched.

You can see them on a webcam, here.

You will probably also see and hear black-headed gulls close to them.

Otters in the Netherlands

Posted on December 29, 2016 by petrel41

In this 21 December 2016 video from the Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve in the Netherlands, wildlife warden Hanne searches for otters and their traces.

Young otters born in Dutch nature reserve

Posted on November 30, 2016 by petrel41

This 29 November 2016 Dutch video is about young otters born in Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve, as proven by camera trap images. Otters had been absent there for many years.

This 28 September 2016 Dutch video is about the decision by the Zuid-Holland provincial legislature to build three tunnels around the Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve, to prevent otters and other animals from being killed by cars. Earlier, that plan had been stopped.

Squacco heron video

Posted on June 14, 2016 by petrel41

This video shows a squacco heron, a rare bird in the Netherlands.

Luuk Punt made this video in the Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve.

Young otters born in Nieuwkoopse plassen

Posted on April 29, 2015 by petrel41

This video shows young otters on 20 April 2015 in Nieuwkoopse plassen nature reserve in the Netherlands. It is the first time since forty years ago that otters have been born in this region.