Diana nr. 09 from 08 May 2012 arrived in newsstands all over Italy.
The most famous Italian hunting magazine is on newsstands with the nr. 09 of 2012.
SUMMARY - Highlights:
Woodcocks MADE IN ITALY
The loves, the nest, the care of the chicks. The nesting in the Peninsula was documented by Arrigoni degli Oddi and confirmed by other ornithologists including Moltoni and Brichetti.
Curated by Silvio Spanò
As users of woodcocks in transit and wintering, we tend to have a "lame" or "orba" vision of its life cycle.
We observe and comment on the phenology of the autumn-winter appearances, while the various aspects relating to its reproduction remain a bit smoky in the field of point-like curiosity or in the negative comments towards those countries of the north-east that still hunt it in spring (during wedding parades - la croule), always accused of putting at risk a heritage that, in reality, is more theirs than ours! It is therefore worthwhile, after the annual hunting drunkenness and the "tragedy" of winter (which is often really such for many woodcocks (see the recent frost wave of the first half of last February), to rebalance the picture by deepening the typical aspects of the reproductive period, which is the main moment of the reproductive cycle, especially in view of its conservation over time. And here, riding the warm southern winds of the nights of March, our pilgrims rush towards the nesting areas to fulfill the call urgent for the continuity of the species.
THE TRIPLE COTURNIX will save us
The causes triggering the decrease of quails in Italy are easily identifiable and originate, as well as for sedentary Galliformes species such as gray partridge (Perdix perdix), in the environmental and agronomic changes that have taken place. But there is more, let's see it together.
Text and photos by Domenico Vigliotti
I remember my first quail (Coturnix coturnix) as if I had incarnated it yesterday: it was August 1988 and, given the results of the eighth grade exam, dad took me with him on the day of the opening of the hunting season. For some time now, living in a condominium, we had no dog (I got "my" first Kurzhaar in a few years) and therefore hopes were placed primarily in turtledoves. Despite the kilometers traveled, the morning was not very interesting for adults and thanks to this I was able to get the shot to catch little birds within my reach. Luck would have it that I shot down a little I don't know what and, having obtained the consent, I started to recover it. Moving away from the embankment I entered a beautiful and endless green field, I walked in what I later discovered was called alfalfa, I was very concentrated, I only stared at the point where the bird had fallen, I advanced step by step without knowing where my feet were resting. The event of a moment generated in me a perhaps unique sensation: a loud noise, almost from under a boot; a line, “prììì”, to make me jump even more; something like a ball of feathers flying very fast in front of me. The embrace and the thrust were the human reaction to that mix of fear and surprise. "What did you shoot?" - he shouted..
Superlight side-by-side cal. 20. BEAUTIFUL AND LIGHT
Italy: land of saints, poets and navigators. We can add: "and excellent arms manufacturers"
Text and photos by Giuseppe Valenti
Franco Zurlini AND HIS POINTERS
Talking about Franco Zurlini is very easy for me, we have known each other for decades, I turned to him when I started my adventure with pointers. He wanted to write the presentation of a book of mine on the Irish. Exactly, we are friends: for this very reason I will try to avoid hyperbole, which would not be a question of hyperbole. I'm just lucky enough to know Franco, a little better than other people.
Text and photos by Stefano Vitale Brovarone