As explained by the association ANUUMigrators, in 2017 in France the mixed GPS-ARGOS system was put in place to follow the life in flight of 12 snipe by the International Snipe Hunters Club (CICB), the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) and the ONCFS (Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage). The “balise”, the term used to indicate the microchip, measures 25 × 14 mm and weighs 4 grams with all its equipment.
The antennas measure instead 5 centimeters for the GPS and 18cm for the ARGOS. The first objective of the important initiative is to locate their breeding site and the second is to study the migration of the species. For the migratory association this interesting study is combined in an interdisciplinary way with the ringing of the two snipe, snipe (Gallinago gallinago) and whisk (Lymnocriptes minimus), which must be increasingly intensified and, of course, less expensive.
The new means of study are such that they now make it possible to achieve valuable results that at the time of the first ringings we would not even have dreamed of obtaining. The business is destined to change also thanks to these new means, Italy could therefore follow the same example in the months that follow.