The "Migratoria" project, organized for the second year by the Province of Pistoia in collaboration with the Tuscan Ornithological Center and hunters from the ANUU Migratoristi, Arci Caccia, and Libera Caccia hunting associations, took place in the autumn months in the mountains above Pistoia. The aim was to carefully monitor migratory birds to better study their behavior and migration routes. The initiative was inspired by similar projects in the provinces of Pisa, Grosseto, and Florence. The study focused on the study of larks, starlings, and thrushes, such as the blackbird, song thrush, redwing, and fieldfare, present in the project area. Therefore, after an initial study phase, last October we moved on to ringing, during which several specimens of the study bird species were captured and a tag bearing a globally unique code was attached to one of their legs. This tag, bearing a unique code, will enable the reconstructing of the individual's migratory movements in the event of subsequent sightings.
One of the two capture and ringing stations was the one in the Dynamo di Limestre oasis in San Marcello Pistoiese where ornithologists and students have captured specimens of twenty-one different species; the other station was in Val di Luce, in the Abetone area, where hunters from the hunting associations took part in the ringing operations and eight species were captured and ringed.
Hunters, scholars and environmentalists have worked side by side for a greater knowledge of migratory avifauna aimed at better protection and conservation of the species that would not be affected by sustainable hunting, carried out in compliance with rules and limits. The collaboration between environmental protection bodies and hunters in the initiatives for the study and protection of the territory has already been part of the Tuscan environmental policy for some years, as has the co-management of protected areas of which the one implemented for the 'Oasi Querciola, the Lake of the Captain and the Lake of the Airport in the Florentine plain or that carried out in the Sienese area near the Lake of Montepulciano.
These are initiatives aimed at mixing opposing ideologies while at the same time diluting mutual relationships by making people work side by side who despite a different vision of the relationship with Nature remain united by a great love and a deep knowledge of the territory but above all by the firm will. to protect it and preserve its ecosystem.
On 18 January 2014
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