The great success that is having the study of the reading of the wings of thrushes killed during the hunting season, which has been taking place for twenty-eight years in Italy, sponsored by the ANUU Migratoristi, has stimulated the French hunters, dedicated to hunting small migrants, to collaborate with the Italian hunting association, organizing, in the best possible way and under the guidance of the expert Jean Paul Florentino, the collection of turdidae hunted in the French regions.
Excellent result obtained during the first year of collection and investigation which brought great results, consequence of a great adhesion of the followers of Diana French who have ventured in the collection and reading of the killed subjects.
Even the executive committee of the ANUU is satisfied with the results, welcoming this collaboration in an enthusiastic way, observing, in this way, that the new research has been considered valid and scientifically reliable and therefore worthy of import into the country beyond the Alps.
The type of hunting used by the French was that of the hut with the aid of calls and the flying or wandering. The data, which were collected from autumn to the end of winter, regarding the Redwing, called Grive mauvis by the French, belong to 509 culled individuals of which 287 are young, 194 adults and 28 undetermined individuals.
As regards the collection of the Song Thrush, called in French Grive musicienne, the subjects collected were a total of 2556 of which 1540 young subjects, 927 adults and 89 indeterminate subjects.
The collection took place in 30 locations located in the various French regions and continuing in future years will allow to compare the results of the Italian survey together with the French one so that a first correlation can be drawn on the dynamics of the populations of the two species during the migratory and wintering period in neighboring countries. Walter Sassi
ANUU Migrators
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