| MADRID-ICONA
Bird Ringing Scheme |
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| Report
for EURING General Meeting- Kollum 01 |
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| 1. |
Situation |
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The
Ringing Office is part of the Ministry of Environment. Since
1990 it runs under contract between the Ministry (formerly
of Agriculture) and SEO/BirdLife (Spanish partner of BirdLife
International) in a two or four years term. At the end of
this year expires the present contract. The lack of continuity
is one of more serious problems we have to face. |
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| 2. |
Staff |
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None permanent position. Right after Helgoland meeting in 1999,
Dr. F. Cantos left the Ringing Office after spends eight years
working in it. At present, two academic employees working full
time (Dr. Fran Hernández, Co-ordinator and Angel Gómez-Manzaneque,
technician). Besides, the administrative Head is Dr. Borja Heredia.
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| 3. |
Ringers |
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During 2001, there are 694 licensed ringers. Most of them are
included in groups. The control and training of the ringers
is delegated to four organisations (SEO/BirdLife, Grup Català
d'Anellament, Grup Balear d'Ornitologia i Defensa de la Naturalesa
and Estación Biológica de Doñana). These organisations offer
courses and the new ringers have to prove field experience and
pass an examination. |
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| 4. |
Rings |
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Ringers
do not have to pay the rings. Currently there are 21 different
models although 6 of them, out of date and of low quality, are
used only in avian hospital centres. Mekaniska manufactures
the rings. |
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| 5. |
Ringing
projects |
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None
co-ordinate from the scheme up to now but this could change
soon since the Ministry has requested us to write a "Scientific
Strategy of the Scheme" during the next year. This November
we will held a general meeting and a round-table with scientifics
and ringers to discuss ideas. This strategy could be a major
change to the Scheme since now it just a data bank |
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| 6. |
Ringing
& recoveries |
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| Year |
Ringed |
Found |
Grand
Totals |
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Ringed |
Found |
| 1999 |
264.425 |
2.407 |
2.900.231 |
22.332 |
| 2000 |
278.227 |
4.165 |
3.182.118 |
26.688 |
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| 7. |
Computerising |
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All
the recoveries are fully computerised (74.000). The ringing
data are stored and handled manually though we are preparing
a free computer programme for ringers to start computerising
the ringing data since next year. |
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| Address: |
Oficina
de Anillamiento
Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza
Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
Gran Via de San Francisco, 4
E-28005-Madrid
Spain
Tel: 34 91 597 56 77
Fax: 34 91 597 56 64
oficina.anillas@dgcn.mma.es
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