It still remains a big mystery: why does the rare glasses have been staying on Texel for months? The arrival of the rare duck caused a large crime of bird lovers to the island, and there are still people on the dike who want to see the animal with their own eyes every day.
“But the hype is really a bit over now,” says Marc Plomp from Bird Information Center Texel. Yet, according to Plomp, it remains special that the duck has completely settled on Texel, because normally it lives in the Arctic area. “Of course he is literally really lost. He is in such a strange area.”
Texel appears to be the perfect base for the animal. “It is always very difficult to estimate what these rarities are doing. They are in a strange environment and have strange peers around them. It can give birth or not, and in this case it works out well for the glasses,” says Marc.
The same food
Because although Texel is of course not a polar area, according to Plomp there are comparisons between the Wadden Island and the normal living environment of the glasses. “He is in an area where there is more or less the same food and has a thousand peers around him with the normal eider.”
Curious about the glasses? NH made a report about these rare glasses in January (text continues under the video)