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north rine-westphalia

  1. European Magpie harasses an Osprey

    European Magpie harasses an Osprey

    This year I was very lucky to be able observe two Ospreys near my area. This is a juvenile Osprey which is being harassed by a European Magpie (Pica pica)
    • Michael Billerbeck
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    • animal behavior behavior eurasian magpie european magpie harassed harassing magpie mülheim north rine-westphalia osprey pandion haliaetus video
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. Fieldfare

    Fieldfare

    In February 2919, looking out of my apartment window, I noticed some Fieldfares picking the rowan berries from a rowan tree at my window, and it even had started snowing. I love this scene. So, I quickly fetched my camera and opened the window completely to create this short video clip of...
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • berries fieldfare germany north rine-westphalia rowan rowan berries rowan fruit snow thrush turdidae turdus turdus pilaris video winter
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. European Stonechat (♂)

    European Stonechat (♂)

    A male European Stonechat in the nature reserve "Ahsewiesen", Lippetal, North Rine-Westphalia, Germany.
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • audio call calling european stonechat germany lippetal nature reserve north rine-westphalia saxicola saxicola rubicola sound stonechat video
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  4. White Stork

    White Stork

    Oftentimes I love to watch birds by what they are doing, and it was really relaxing to watch this White Stork foraging or resting on a field while the wind was blower through the stork‘s feathers. I really enjoyed it.
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • ciconia ciconia ciconia germany lippetal north rine-westphalia stork video white stork
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  5. Garganey (♂)

    Garganey (♂)

    A Garganey in the nature reserve ‘Disselmersch’, a flood channel area in North Rine-Westphalia, Germany.
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • anas querquedula anatidae auenland disselmersch duck garganey germany lippe lippeaue nature reserve north rine-westphalia spatula spatula querquedula video
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  6. Eurasian Skylark

    Eurasian Skylark

    This was the first Skylark I was able to film. I have heard Skylark singing when I was about to leave a nature reserve and passing a field. When I stopped the car, I first checked the field further away because I did not expect this Skylark to be so close to the border of the field with the...
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • alauda arvensis alaudidae audio call calling eurasian skylark germany lark lippetal north rine-westphalia singing skylark song video
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  7. Least Weasels

    Least Weasels

    This was a lucky moment: I was waiting at a swamp pond in the botanical garden ‘Rombergpark‘ in Dortmund, Germany, and waited for a kingfisher to visit this pond, because I know that this kingfisher occasionally liked to perch on the branches of the bald/swamp cypresses in that pond. I heard...
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • botanical garden carnivora common weasel dortmund germany least weasel little weasel mustela mustela nivalis north rine-westphalia rombergpark video weasel
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Wild Mammals
  8. Grey Partridges

    Grey Partridges

    A group of Grey Partridges on a cabbage field (or rapseed field?) covered with snow. It seems like they were waiting for their food be uncovered from snow. Occasionally they were nibbling on the vegetables at the small uncovered spots. After I stopped the recording because they laid down and did...
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • audio call calling english partridge germany grey patridges grey-legged partridge hun hungarian patridge north rine-westphalia perdix perdix perdix snow video winter
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  9. Little Ringed Plover (juv.)

    Little Ringed Plover (juv.)

    A Juvenile Little Ringed Plover in the rain filmed in a nature reserve in North-Rine Westfalia in Germany
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • ahsewiesen charadrius charadrius dubius germany juvenile lippeauen lippetal little ringed plover nature reserve north rine-westphalia plover rain video
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  10. Common Snipe in Rain

    Common Snipe in Rain

    When I filmed this Common Snipe from within an observation hut in rain I was thinking that it would be interesting to film more birds in rain in future, also to observe how they cope with rain or what they do when it rains...
    • Michael Billerbeck
    • Media item
    • ahsewiesen common snipe gallinago gallinago gallinago germany lippeauen lippetal nature reserve north rine-westphalia rain snipe video wader
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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