The Bocca di Caset bird ringing station in Trentino has recently returned to normal operations, as evidenced by the facility's most recent social media posts. This message appeared on Facebook on August 4th : " Yes, we're back for a new season of migration monitoring! After two non-stop days, everything is ready to begin: the nets, the rings, the operators, and of course the small migratory birds ."
The next post was dedicated to one of the typical species : “ A welcome guest in many of our gardens, the common redstart is also one of the first species to abandon its breeding grounds for wintering sites. Like many other migrants of this period, it chooses the night hours for travel, when the weather conditions are more favorable and predators are fewer, and the daytime hours for feeding. As the day progresses, the disheveled young representatives of the local avifauna make their way through, contributing to enriching our catches .”
In the last few hours, new updates have arrived: " Birds are highly sensitive indicators of environmental changes, revealing potential critical situations early on. This is the case of the common whitethroat, which revealed the dangers of climate change in unsuspecting times: in 1968, a severe drought hit the Sahel areas where it spent the winter, causing a numerical collapse of its populations. The scarce rainfall of 83 and 90 had similar effects. It's a shame that its warning went unheeded for so long. Along with it, today we are also ringing some diurnal birds of prey " (source: Bocca di Caset Ringing Station ).
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