News Archive

11. Mar 2021

Video observations at nests of the honey buzzard

Insights into a live in airy height: A paper published in the Corax journal summarises the results of an observational study of honey buzzards at the nest.

02. Mar 2021

Congratulations!

We congratulate our colleagues Anna Backes and Julika Voß who successfully completed their respective master thesis. Both studies were part of projects carried out at BioConsult SH.

18. Feb 2021

Mapping whales from space – latest developments

The Potential of Satellite Imagery for Surveying Whales: A paper, giving an overview of the current state of this method, the associated challenges and aims for future developments, has now been published in the Sensors journal.

11. Jan 2021

SPACEWHALE II – Whales in the Bay of Biscay

SPACEWHALE: In this project we train an algorithm to detect large whales in very high-resolution satellite imagery using artificial intelligence and deep-learning techniques. Fieldwork is now successfully completed.

30. Nov 2020

Use of drones in survey of bird population filmed by NDR

In a report on the ornithological station on the island of Amrum, the NDR team also documented our staff at work.

06. Jul 2020

Diver abundance remains stable despite further development of offshore wind farms

A study carried out under the leadership of BioConsult SH investigates the possible impacts of offshore wind farms on the population and habitats of red- and black-throated divers in the German North Sea.

08. Jun 2020

The hazel dormouse – agile climber in our hedgerow landscape

South of the Kiel Canal, BioConsult SH currently investigates populations of the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius).

25. May 2020

Using drones to study the social relationships of dolphins

How do you study the social behaviour of dolphins who spend most of their time underwater? A new study uses drone video footage.

21. Feb 2020

Telemetry of divers (DIVER) – project completed

Within the framework of the DIVER-project, a total of 45 red-throated divers were fitted with satellite transmitters to investigate migration routes and movement patterns in especially the wintering area in the Eastern German Bight.

20. Nov 2019

Telemetric monitoring of eagle owls – project completed

Several eagle owls in Schleswig-Holstein were equipped with GPS transmitters within the framework of a BioConsult SH telemetry study. The results yielded interesting findings on the home range size and gave insight into which areas are used by eagle owls apart from the breeding site.