{"id":2,"date":"2012-11-09T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alulatonserien.de\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:41:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Birds-in-Flight, our <em>work-in-progress<\/em> resource<br \/>\ndedicated to audiovisual identification of birds on migration.<\/p>\n<p>As professional ornithologists we find us regularly confronted<br \/>\nwith the identification of birds in flight &#8211; mostly far away,<br \/>\nin high altitudes, poor light, stiff wind &#8211; providing just a few<br \/>\nvisual key features or key parts of their vocalisations.<\/p>\n<p>Beside a general interest for annual animal movements that<br \/>\nproblem turned into a passion (conspecifics would most likely<br \/>\nsay obsession) and we would like to share our enthusiasm<br \/>\nand accumulated experience with other birders.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of our collection is on Western Palearctic species<br \/>\nplus some species with vagrancy potential for comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Our knowledge is based on own field observations but in equal<br \/>\nparts on discussions with fellow ornithologists and birders,<br \/>\nliterature, drawings, websites, sound recordings, photographs<br \/>\nof others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We would like to thank those who have shared their<br \/>\nknowledge in the field and fruitful discussions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arnoud van den Berg, Andreas Buchheim, Thijs Fijen,<br \/>\nMartin Grimm, Simone Gr\u00fcttner, Jens Halbauer, Michael Hei\u00df,<br \/>\nBert Jahnke, Stella Klasan, Steve Klasan, Steffen Koschkar,<br \/>\nThomas K\u00f6ster, Peter Nuyten, Graeme Pegram, Lukas Pelikan,<br \/>\nMich\u00e8le Peron, Thomas Sacher, Michael Schulz, Tom Wulf<br \/>\nand Matthew Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Birds-in-Flight, our work-in-progress resource dedicated to audiovisual identification of birds on migration. As professional ornithologists we find us regularly confronted with the identification of birds in flight &#8211; mostly far away, in high altitudes, poor light, stiff wind &#8211; providing just a few visual key features or key parts of their vocalisations. Beside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13984,"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/13984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}