KRUCKENBERG H, DüTMANN H, Kämpfer S & FARTMANN T (2021) The south-western Delta of the Netherlands is an important stopover and wintering area for the North-German breeding population of the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata. LIMOSA 94 (1): 58-65.

To get more information about migration routes, stopover- and wintering areas of Eurasian Curlews breeding in northwestern Germany we tagged 45 adult birds in 2020 along a transect ranging from the Wadden Sea Islands in the north to the Lower Rhine in the southwest of the breeding range. The first results show that the Delta area in the south-west of the Netherlands is an important stopover and wintering area for this population. Especially birds migrating to the Atlantic coasts of France, the Iberian Peninsula and the Channel Islands used the Delta area for a while. In particular, from seventeen birds passing the Delta eleven stopped there for time periods varying between 1 h and 138 h. Six birds seem to use the Delta as wintering area.

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