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2 unusual facts about Rossitten Bird Observatory


Johannes Thienemann

Johannes Thienemann (12 November 1863 – 12 April 1938) was a German ornithologist and a pioneer bird bander who established the Rossitten Bird Observatory, the world’s first.

Rossitten Bird Observatory

It receives support from the Sielmann Foundation and works closely with western partners, including the Vogelwarte Radolfzell with which it operates a joint trapping and banding station.


Heligoland trap

It was developed in 1957 by Janis Jakšisat under the leadership of Lev Belopolsky at the Rybachy Biological Station (formerly the Rossitten Bird Observatory) at Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia, on the Curonian Spit.


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