EURING Brochure (published in 2007)

Bird Ringing for Science and Conservation

This new brochure, describing the value of bird ringing and the activities of EURING, has been published recently. It is available here in English as a .pdf file* (1.86Mb), here in Italian as a .pdf file* (1.61Mb) and can be viewed as web pages in English below.

Contents

• Preface
• What is Scientific Bird Ringing?
• Birds are personalities
• Outstanding individuals
• Methods of bird ringing
• Bird ringers and ringing centres
• EURING - The European Union for Bird Ringing
• Understanding bird migration - the need for bird ringing
• The EURING Swallow Project
• Bird ringing as a monitoring technique
• Ringing birds to understand population dynamics
• Bird ringing in evolutionary and behavioural studies
• Dispersal and population persistence
• Bird ringing and global climate change
• Bird-transmitted diseases
• From bird ringing to conservation action
• Bird ringing in the 21st century and the future role of EURING
• Reporting a ring
• Editorial information

Download the complete brochure HERE as a .pdf file* (1.86Mb).

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