This European Bee-eater is a true Champion of the Flyway. It not only flies 1000’s of kilometers each year from Africa to Europe, it also needs to avoid many people who want to kill it. For sport, food or even just fun. This beautiful bird is amongst the many species that in total loose […]
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A Birthday Gift to Stop the Illegal Slaughter of Migrating Birds
The countdown has started – in only 18 days the Dutch Knights, represented by Martijn Verdoes, Marc Guyt & Gert Ottens, will take part in the biggest birding event of the year – the Champions of the Flyway 2015. This is a fundraising event to stop the illegal trapping and slaughter of millions of migrating […]
Dutch Knights defending their title at the 2015 Champions of the Flyway
STOP THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF MIGRATING BIRDS AND DONATE HERE! Last year editor Gert Ottens from Birdlife Netherlands, AGAMI photographers Marc Guyt and Martijn Verdoes together with Ken Billington, founder of Focusing on Wildlife, joined the Champions of the Flyway in Eilat, Israel. Aptly named Champions of the Flyway Sprinters we joined this extraordinary bird race […]
The magic of migration
The magic of migration has always attracted me. Living at a coastal migration hotspot in the Netherlands, I spent my birding childhood glued to a small hill just north of Katwijk. This small hill overlooked beautiful dunes, and this was our theater in autumn – the site for 100,000’s of migrating birds to pass through, […]