The hunting season has long since ended, now there Italian Federation of Hunting invited the volunteers who joined the "Hunting Diaries" project to send data on their killing by returning the same diaries in the three ways they prefer. In fact, the transmission can take place via postal address (the actual diary or its photocopy), taking care to send the documents to the Rome office of Via Salaria 298 / A. The two alternatives are those of the fax (the number made available is 06844094217) and scan or photo of the pages via e-mail message (the reference address is [email protected]).
Federcaccia also thanked the hunters who contributed to this important research. Among other things, as can be read in the official note of the federation, the data of the diaries were analyzed for three species, namely turdidae, lark and turtle dove: we are talking about the first three years of the research, a study that was presented in a degree thesis of theUniversity of Padua. Marco Fasoli, enrolled in the Course in Forestry and Environmental Technologies, and his supervisor, professor Maurizio Ramanzin, have dealt with the use of hunting diaries, with interesting information for the birds that can be hunted in our country.
The main objective of the thesis in question was to examine the data of the killing on the basis of over two hundred hunting diaries over the course of three different hunting seasons (2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013). The analyzed species are the lark, the blackbird, the song thrush, the redwing and the cesena. Specifically, the student's work highlighted 44152 culls and a series of shortcomings that cannot be ignored, as they have reduced the potential for use of hunting logs, an initiative that could become even more effective.
In fact, the number has been defined as still “limited”, however the numbers and the data are the signal of a performance of the hunting effort that is influenced differently for the individual species by altitudes and weather conditions. The yield just mentioned, among other things, was intended as an abundance index. Finally, the hypotheses of this university work have been tested and demonstrated both as an example and as a simple one scientific exploration, using a statistical analysis of the data of the single species through the database considered most representative, that is the song thrush.