Hunting and Migration: information on the migratory pass in Italy provided by ANUU Migratoristi based on FEIN ornithological observations, “The appearance of winterers”.
The last week of November was really bad from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, which ends a month that began with good prospects regarding the observations of the Redwing and Cesena. The week under review was devoid of noteworthy migratory movements. The weather conditions were complicit, resulting in scarce catches, at least for the FEIN Ornithological Observatory of Arosio. Even the cold recorded at the end of the third decade of November was not absolutely sufficient to move those wintering species that usually reappear in this period. Particularly Cesena and Peppola. For the whole last week the rain has bored us, continuing in the western Palearctic the "arm wrestling" between the massive cold anticyclone over Russia and the mild depression over southern Europe. In short, all the hopes for a new numerous appearance of the great turdids are now placed on the traditional date of 6 December, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which this year foresees, for those who believe in the phases of the moon, the full moon already on Saturday XNUMX December.
Returning to the last week of November, which has just ended, it should be emphasized that in this period, which goes towards wintering, some species, although with a small number of subjects, have been observed regularly. They are the Frosone, the Sparrow, the Regulus, the Fiorrancino, the Blackbird and again the Song Thrush. At the FEIN Observatory, while the 195 thousandth species ringed since 4 August 1977 was analyzed on Sunday morning, morale remains high and preparations are being made for the study of wintering species, which will begin on 8 December with the hope of analyzing many subjects. at the end of a very satisfying migratory year.
November 04, 2014
ANUU Migrators