Club del Colombaccio, the "Hobson Italia" Project - Caccia Passione officially kicks off

This is the research on the origins of migrating wood pigeons in the autumn and to be precise in the territory of our country.

di Simone Ricci

June 10 2019

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Research on Origins of migrating wood pigeons in autumn on the Italy Project K. Hobson. To the kind attention of the Scientific Research Managers of the Italian Hunting Associations and Institutions (ATC etc.). After the meeting held on May 12th in Bastia Umbra, a Specific Project "Hobson". It must be premised that it was not easy to have a proactive and programmatic contact with Keith Hobson, a world-renowned researcher engaged in all sectors of animal migration (at sea, on land, in the sky) and only after having presented him with the commitment of the Italian Pigeon Club in Migration Research (see CV of the Club, including Draft of a European Plan) the contact was concretely realized. in January 2019: Hobson has communicated its willingness to cooperate in the terms here represented, extracted from your personal email. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keith_Hobson from Hobson January 2019.

It follows that the Plan / program is all here, with an approximate cost of 15 thousand euros. The details of the sampling methodology of the "primary (P1)" will be indicated with precision of instructions when the Project starts with the collection of feathers (combined with measurement of the wings) by the Detector members of the CIC and of all the collaborating Members of the various Associations. The harvest must take place from October 1st to November 15th. Each Collaborator, at the end of the season, will send the pens in an envelope to the local manager of the Italian Pigeon Club who will subsequently forward them to Prof. Dr. Enrico Cavina, via Serraloggia 31 - 60044 Fabriano (AN) tel. 0732.5778 - [email protected] Responsible for the Scientific Colombaccio Club Italiano del Colombaccio.

Further details relating to the shipping of pens they will be provided with wide dissemination of information before 1 October, if the Research is actually started. Once the collection of the envelopes sent has been completed, all the research material will be forwarded to Prof. Keith Hobson (Canada). Prof. Hobson will lead the analysis of Radioisotopes on the material sent by creating the Route and Origin Maps in the same terms published with the previous Researches in France and Spain. This analysis will develop and obviously the scientific Work (s) that will result from it full recognition of the collaboration of the participating Associations / Institutions. The Italian Colombaccio Club guarantees this. The analyzes will be related to the collection and detection sites.