Where do all these birds come from and where do they go? Of course people wanted to know that for a long time, but how do you measure such things? So in 1911 the very first bird in the Netherlands was caught and ringed: a starling. And now the counter already stands at 12.8 million birds in our country, but we are far from finished learning.
For the Vogeltrekstation, catching and ringing is their most important method for researching bird migration and distribution. In countless locations in our country, but also in the rest of Europe, volunteers catch birds in nets, sometimes daily. Henk van der Jeugd of the NIOO and Vogeltrekstation takes us to a ringing site near Wageningen.
Broadcast of Vroege Vogels (BNN-VARA)