Short communication, Note
Fifty-years (1972–2021) of bird ringing by an ornithologist
Zdravko Dolenec
Abstract
In the period from 1972 to 2021, I have ringed 20,125 birds (average 408 per year; 76 species), of which thirty-three were recorded outside the territory of Croatia [5 species: the Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris – 28 (Italy – 17, Algeria – 5, Tunisia – 4, Hungary – 1, Spain – 1), the Blackbird Turdus merula – 2 (Italy, France), the Woodpigeon Columba palumbus – 1 (Italy), the Song Thrush Turdus
philomelos – 1 (Italy), and the Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus – 1 (Czech Rep.)]. There were 446 findings on the territory of Croatia (17 species: the Common Starling – 211, the Tree Sparrow Passer montanus – 94, the House Sparrow Passer domesticus – 53, the Great Tit Parus major – 49, the Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica – 8, the Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla – 7), the Blue Tit – 5, the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto – 3, the Robin Erithacus rubecula – 3, the Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major – 2, the Blackbird – 2, the Marsh Tit Poecile palustris – 2, the Magpie Pica pica – 2, the
Tawny Owl Strix aluco – 1, the Green Woodpecker Picus viridis – 1, the Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus – 1, the Hooded Crow Corvus cornix, and the Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis – 1. I used aluminium rings from the Ornithology Institute of the Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb.
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Hrčak ID:
274252
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Publication date:
23.3.2022.
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