Always in the Top!

Dear readers!

This is the blog for the Project
on Oystercatcher - Bird of the Year 2008 in the Netherlands - at the Russian White Sea.

It will operate from 20 May to 20 August 2008 and will only be devoted to this great bird.

It is for purpose in English - for the international community. For the Russian audience similar blog, but with different contents, will be updated in Russian.
Great fun is that the birds - in this case Oystercatchers - but in fact many many more - spend autumn, winter and spring in Europe and North Africa, and in summer come to breed to the Russian North. Learning on birds migrating between the two countries often means learning on people that live there - in different nature, different lives, and with different attitude to birds as well. By telling you the stories of individually marked Oystercatchers born / colour-ringed at the White Sea or the Netherlands or elsewhere but relevant , and flying to breed at the Russian White Sea I hope to tell you more on this area and people also.
At the same time, learning the stories in Russian the readers in my country will be able to know on the birds wintering areas, and on the people that look at them and care for them when they are away from Russia. For obvious reasons the date of this post will stay as 20 August 2008, but all the posts below will be dated correctly.
Though the Project is mainly linked to the fact that it is the Bird of the Year 2008 - and Oystercatchers link our countries literally and also indirectly - the blog will be maintained in English for a larger audience, but also omdat mijn Nederlands nog niet zo goed is.
Welcome with comments and questions!

20 Mei 2008 (with the date of 20 August)