IT’s SPRING MIGRATION TIME!
With the Crane Radar, you can track Cranes in real time and anticipate where they can be spotted in the next few hours. We hope you enjoy your sightings!
Before every Winter, cranes migrate from cold Scandinavia to warmer areas in France and Spain, and back again before the Spring. Hence, highest changes to see them flying are in October-November and February-March.
Every minute the position(s) of spotted cranes are recalculated. Click on the binocular to get details about the original observation. Zoom in to get more accurate estimates.
How it works
Thousands of birders in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are using Waarneming.nl to record crane sightings. We built a model in which we combine these observations with the current weather information, over 20,000 historic sightings, and biological and ecological knowledge of the species. The result is a real-time radar on which you can see actual crane sightings and the expected routes they will take during their migration.
Are you on this route? Take your binoculars and sit and wait for the cranes to fly over!
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Credits
The Crane Radar is an initiative of
ass. Prof. Koen de Koning of the Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University and Research, and
Sensing Clues Foundation.
The real-time crane observations are provided by waarneming.nl. The project is co-funded by the European Commission, HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions, Grant agreement ID 101060954 (Nature FIRST).
