Already one hour after the registration opened on fredagsmorgnen had a hundred birds are reported. According to the association of Bird life, the interest for birds and birding has increased sharply in the 2000s. Membership in the various ornithological associations is just more and more and one of the reasons is vinterfågelräkningen that started in 2006, think Anders Wirdheim.
” It is quite clear that the birds and nature means more and more to us. I think it may be a result of us living in more urban environments in day and to get out in nature becomes more important.
two reasons why it every year, counting the birds and how many there are of each kind.
” one is that we want to stimulate fågelintresset. Every winter, feed a half a million swedes birds at his residence, it has been shown that we do it as much for their sake as for ours. Of course we want to help them with food when it is cold but it also means for us that there is life outside the window. We feel good about it.
A bright yellow great tit Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TT
The second reason is to follow the trend and get an approximate figure of how many birds wintering in the country. Through the years, it has been observed that some species become more and more common, and stays higher up in the country. For example, you have seen that koltrastarna previously only stayed at the top in Sundsvall now is left up in the Kalix and Haraparanda.
” It is obvious that the birds responded to climate change and managed övervintringen higher up in the country. Now they can stay when the climate has become increasingly warmer.
– For the birds, it is positive because they do not have the long perilous journeys when they have to move during the winter. But of course, it is not good for us humans and the environment.
of all the 20,000 fågelräknare this weekend is Gigi Sahlstrand. She is the only female professional bird watcher and participated as a judge in the TV program The Big Fågeläventyret in the SVT in the spring of 2017.
” it feels like It can be record this weekend thanks to the cold värdret. Otherwise, it tends to be mild and then there will be fewer birds that come on the feed.
Gigi Sahlstrands interest in bird watching will from home where the parents every winter, be sure to feed the birds. ”It is a mental relaxation,” she says. Photo: Anna-Lena Wejderman
She lives out on the Färingsö in lake Mälaren and has his back just outside the home office.
” I have a big feed and had a lot of blackbirds here in the morning. I counted 57 pieces and it is really pesonligt record.
” Actually not. In the morning they are very quiet, tired and jäspar. Now at noon it is much more difficult when they are arguing and tjaffsar. Otherwise, I would have had some country and gulsparvar.
the blue tit. Photo: Attila Kovacs/AP
the national bird survey in progress until Sunday evening, and those who want to participate can either use an app on your phone or send through the post to the Bird life, which then compiles and presents the statistics. Last year topped the talgoxen the list with approximately 120.014 observed birds. Then came blåmesen and gråsiskan that came up in 96.000 respekive 88.000
these Figures are approximate and do not in any way vetenskpliga. At the count is the highest total number of individuals of one species you see at one and the same time as you report. You see the same species at different times, you should not add them together.
“No, you can count over the whole weekend or just sit in for an hour, it is important to report the largest number of one species you see at the same time,” says Anders Wirdheim.
According to him, involving all sorts of people in the bill and not just the old bird watchers.
– One can easily believe it but the fact is that there is quite a lot of young people. This year tärffade I am a young girl who witnessed the robins, and it had made her jättelycklig. It is very fun.