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Nature Conservation 3/2009 — 30. 6. 2009 — Research, Surveys and Data Management — Print article in pdf
Bird ringing in the Czech Republic and Europe
Ringing as a basic method for studying bird migration has been almost unchanged continuing 110 years.
For the first time, the method was invented for marking a pair of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) by H. C. Mortensen, a Danish schoolteacher in 1899. By 1930, national bird ringing schemes were step-by-step established in Europe as well as outside our continent. On what is now the Czech Republic, the first ringing scheme was established in 1914. In 1934, establishing a new one was initiated by the Czechoslovak Ornithological Society, closely collaborating with the National Museum in Prague. In 1964, the first professional staff was recruited. At present, bird ringing in Europe is organised by individual national bird ringing schemes, forming together the European Union for Bird Ringing (EURING). By the mid-1970s, bird ringing aimed at general migration and biology, e.g. wintering ground and migratory stopover location, nest-site or birthplace fidelity or migration speed. Nowadays, ringers deal more with the projects focusing on the particular species or groups of related species. Important single--species projects include those on the Corncrake (Crex crex), White--tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) or Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica). In 1977, the EURING established a European database, hosted by the British Trust for Ornithology. At the end of 2008, it stored more than 5.5 million recoveries gathered by 29 national bird ringing schemes throughout Europe. The Bird Ringing Centre at the National Museum Prague has been for a long time aiming at studiers on common bird species population dynamics, multi-species projects and on permanent improving the knowledge of bird migration in the Czech Republic. In 2008, the Czech and Slovak Bird Migration Atlas was published.