Izvještaj - Drugi skup prstenovača Hrvatske

• Format: Text
• Language: Croatian
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Nikola; Common tern; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://hrcak.srce.hr/252953; https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/367539

Held on 11th March 2020 at the hall of the Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, organized by the Institute of Ornithology, the assembly brought together participants of the Croatian bird ringing scheme. The assembly was attended by 36 participants: bird ringers, bird ringing trainees, representatives of governmental institutions involved in nature protection, and employees of the Bird Ringing Center. The agenda included twelve oral presentations and a working meeting. The assembly commenced with the invited talk by Nikola Tvrtković, former manager of the Natural History Museum in Zagreb, who presented a memorial of Dragutin Rucner, former director of the Institute of Ornithology. It was followed by a session committed to modern tracking technologies and their relation to traditional bird ringing. The session consisted of five talks about the studies that used modern tracking technologies to study the spacing behaviour of birds: the Roller Coracias garrulus (Sanja Barišić), the Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis (Luka Jurinović), the Common Tern Sterna hirundo (Jelena Kralj and Miloš Martinović), the Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala (Davor Ćiković), and a selection of studies carried out by the NGO Biom (Petra Čulig). The following two talks presented individual studies – the first tackled the differences between two species of Orphean Warblers: the Eastern, Sylvia crassirostris, and the Western, S. hortensis, aiming to emphasize the need of caution while ringing (talk given by Miloš Martinović), whereas the second gave an overview of the results achieved in the course of 15 years of marking European Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis (given by Jelena Kralj). Further talks gave an overview of ringing in Croatia in the years 2015 – 2018 (Ria Fajdetić), a call to start individual programs of ringing adults for survival (RAS, Sanja Barišić), an educational talk about importance of stopovers during migration (Vesna Tutiš), and an overview of the achievements of the Croatian Bird Ringing Center and EURING, with an emphasis on the achievements in the production of the European bird migration atlas (Davor Ćiković). During the working meeting, the Croatian Bird Ringing Committee was constituted. Ringers attending the meeting elected three representatives to the Committee, who were to join employees of the Bird Ringing Center in the process of decision making and developing the ringing scheme in Croatia.