ANUU Migratorists: in France the research on the wings of Thrushes killed during the past 2012-2013 Hunting Season was carried out again this year.
The great success that the study of the reading of the wings of thrushes killed during the hunting season, which has been taking place for twenty-nine years in Italy, sponsored by the ANUU Migratoristi, has had considerable importance so that, also for the 2012-13 season the French hunters dedicated to the hunting of small migrants, under the guidance of the expert Jean-Paul Florentino, they have replicated this technical-scientific analysis.
The result obtained during this second year of collection and investigation was again satisfying. Once again the Executive Committee of the ANUU Migrators says it is satisfied with the results, welcoming this collaboration in an enthusiastic way and underlining, in this way, that this research has been considered scientifically reliable and, therefore, worthy of import into the country located beyond the Alps. The type of hunting used by the French was that of the hut with the aid of calls, and on the fly, ie wandering.
The data, which were collected from autumn to the end of winter, regarding the Redwing called Grive mauvis by the French, belong to 582 culled subjects, of which 205 adults, 337 young and 40 indeterminate (in the first season there were 509 culled, of which 287 young, 194 adults and 28 indeterminate).
As regards the collection of the Song Thrush, called in French Grive musicienne, the subjects collected were a total of 2.906 of which 1.089 adults, 1.704 young people and 113 indeterminate (the first year were 2.556, of which 1.540 young people, 927 adults and 89 indeterminate). The collection was carried out in 26 locations (the first year of the survey were 30) located in the various regions.
The research carried out in France, also continuing in future years, will allow us to compare our results with the Italian ones, 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 the neighboring countries.
26 March 2013
ANUU Migrators