It's time for another post in the series of summaries of this year's breeding season. Let's move to our meadows near Gródek, this time, where we noted a record nesting success of waders. It reached almost 94%!
In the research area, ornithologists found 100 nests, of which 97 were located inside our anti-predator fence. Most of them were Lapwing nests (39), as many as 28 nests belonged to Black-tailed Godwits (!) - a record for this area, slightly fewer, because 26 were Redshank nests. We managed to locate 3 Great Snipe nests and 4 belonging to Snipes. Although we couldn't find a Ruff nest, the female's behavior indicated that this species also was nesting here for the fourth year in a row. We have to add that Gródek is the only one confirmed site of a Ruff nesting in Poland.
Another phenomenon on the scale of our country is the density and number of pairs of Black-tailed Godwits nesting on one of the fenced plots. On an area of 30 ha, there were as many as 28 pairs – a significant part of the Polish population! Their nesting success this year was even more incredible, reaching 100%!
Field work was carried out by ornithologists from the Nature Society Great Snipe - Dubelt.
