As expected byANUUMigrators in the press release of last week, between 4 and 5 October, with a positive peak on Sunday 6, finally the bottacci thrushes appeared in good numbers, also reiterating the good health of the species. A confirmed presence also for the south of France. In this regard, the Scientific Director of the IMPCF Institute, Jean Claude Ricci, points out that, according to French observations, the Thrushes do not "belong" to the migratory line that from the northeast it moves to the southwest, but they are individuals from the north who, finding unfavorable weather conditions in the French territory, avoided the descent along the costa atlantica towards Portugal and instead took the great Rhone route, heading south.
They would therefore be individuals not belonging to "our" migratory line that moves from northern Italy towards Liguria in the direction of the Balearics. We'll see if the observations help us understand the long journey of feather flowers, fantastic title of a movie from the eighties by Bruno Modugno who presented it again as the background on the occasion of an interesting interview on SKY, broadcast in these days on the thematic channel of hunting and fishing.
Il migration book has now opened and Fringuelli, Frosoni, Siskin, Pispole and Skylark in some areas have appeared in good numbers with the first Swallows, while atFEIN Observatory Sunday 6 October at 15 pm the first Peppola of the season was ringed. There is nothing particular to report for the anatidae and the common snipe, as confirmed by the data of the Observatories scattered throughout the territory provided to FEIN (and processed by the Walter Sassi) who takes care of these weekly notes on the passage in collaboration with the Environmental Protection and Ornithological Research Coordination Office of the ANUUMigratoristi.