By Ágota Ábrán, post-doctoral researcher at New Europe College In 1934, Silvia von Spiess, head of the ornithological section of the Royal Hunting Office of Romania, wrote the following in an article about looking for bird’s nests in the Danube Delta to ring chicks in the hunting magazine ‘Carpații’ (Carpathians): ‘The journey is interrupted inContinue reading “Silvia Stein von Spiess (1901-1993) – Ringing and early citizen science in 1930s Romania”
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Suvine vahemäng
Elle-Mari Talivee, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskuse vanemteadur, PhD Click here to read in English Covid-19 on sundinud olema paiksem, seepärast tahtsin väga teha suvel väikese reisi vähemalt üpriski ohutus „Balti mullis“. Ma ei olnud kunagi käinud Leedus Nemunase deltas, kus suurjõgi voolab Kura lahte. Lahe sulgeb vibukaarena Kura säär, mis algab LeedusContinue reading “Suvine vahemäng”
An Estonian Summer Interlude
By Dr Elle-Mari Talivee, Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Eestikeelse postituse lugemiseks vajuta siia Covid-19 has made us rather place-dependent, so I really wanted to make a little trip this summer inside the relatively safe “Baltic bubble”. I had never been to the Nemunas delta in Lithuania, where thisContinue reading “An Estonian Summer Interlude”