Conference contributions
Federcaccia, through its national Study and Research Office, in collaboration with the Universities of Milan and Pisa, with the Amici di Scolopax association, Federcaccia Lombardia and with the sectorial ACMA, has brought as many as 10 contributions to the attention of the Scientific Committee of the XXI National Conference of Ornithology, which were accepted in the form of nine posters and a panel discussion. Four posters concern research with satellite telemetry and GPS-GSM, on woodcock, mallard, fieldfare and song thrush species and display the latest results achieved in terms of migration by woodcock and the two thrushes and use of space in winter and spring -summer for the mallard.
A unique studio
Another poster concerns the update of the research on the lark in Campania, the only multi-year monitoring study of the species in Italy, a subsequent one concerns the data from the collection of dove wings and two others on the quail and the whisk, understood as a variation of the game bag during the hunting season for the former, and long-term abundance indexes for the latter. A completely new work has been carried out on the incidence of hunting in Italy of 20 species of migratory birds. The round table concerns the application of management plans for declining species and will be moderated by the Scientific Coordinator of the Studies and Research Office, Dr. Michele Sorrenti.
The main interventions
Federcaccia is present at the conference with the staff of the Office: Michele Sorrenti and Daniel Tramontana and with the consultants and collaborators Valter Trocchi, Alessandro Tedeschi, Antonella Labate, Susan Ellen McKinlay and Michele Bottazzo. As soon as the Proceedings of the Conference are available, Federcaccia will make the abstracts available on its website. Federcaccia is now part of the official program of studies on Italian avifauna and the results are present in various faunal plans, in the management plans approved and used in many resolutions of regional hunting calendars (source: FIDC).