ANUU Migrators on the spring migration pass, “bad weather, a spring to forget”.
A spring to forget for the abundant and continuous rains, even in the form of fast thunderstorms, which have hit all of Italy due to the absence of the Azores anticyclone, which guarantees a not too sultry heat, but allows our winged friends to arrive quickly at the nesting shores. April and May were not favorable and the bird species were not, therefore, helped on the migratory route through the peninsula and France. This negative meteorological context caused a staged migration, unlike what happened in the North East of the Western Palearctic where temperatures confirmed the presence of the good season, thus helping the species of birds to reach the reproductive territories. In central Europe, floods hit cities like Prague and temperatures were below normal even in Germany and Austria where the toll was truly impressive: not only flooded countryside, but dead and missing in a spring that never happened and which has also brought agriculture to its knees. But, again in the north-east the breeding pairs began to give great reproductive results.
For Italy, the first nesting, as well as the upward migration, was penalized due to the cold, or rather icy, air that came from the north of Sweden, crossing the barrier of the Alps. Only in June was it possible to record a rise in temperatures and the good weather brought to an end a bad season. However, from a first, but reliable, vision of the news received by the Ornithological Observatory of the European Kite Foundation, also through the Coordination Office for Environmental Protection, Ornithological Research and Ringing of the ANUU Migrationists, the excellent nesting in the north is confirmed. east of the western Palearctic, especially as regards the great turdids.
Furthermore, the University of St. Petersburg, in collaboration with the OMPO, is annually drafting the report on the presence and nesting of large turdids. These studies are in addition to the observations carried out in the various territories concerned. The observations made in our territories result in a low number of individuals born in the first spring months.
However, the censuses continue and will continue with the hope that a positive continuation of the season can make a contribution to the recovery of the depositions and the success of the reproductive period. These censuses, similar to the monitoring that takes place through the breeding project that takes place at the FEIN Ornithological Observatory of Arosio, resulted in a first good presence of the finch, the blackbird and the great spotted woodpecker. Hopefully a favorable conclusion.
(20 July 2013)
ANUU Migrators