The Publication of First Atlas of Migratory Birds of Euskadi was accompanied by an informative doser entitled ‘Bird Migration in Euskadi’Dissemination talks about this phenomenon and didactic material aimed at all Euskadi schools.
The director of the Ornithology or Aranzadi department, Juan Arizaga, accompanied by the ornithologist of the Society and responsible for the project, Maite Laso, of the Basque vice minister of Environmental Sustainability, Josu Bilbao, and of Foral representatives were responsible for making the presentation.
Have explained that these initiatives emphasize “Strategic importance” of Euskadi in the migration of birds in Western Europe, given “their specific geographical location, for which the migration flow between the Western Pyrenees and the Cantabrian is channeled by a funnel effect ».
Know the migrating birds from Basque Country
The Aranzadi Science Society presented the first atlas of migrating birds from Euskadi on Tuesday A research work that brings together data of one hundred years of ringings of these animals in the Basque autonomous community.
The volume was presented at the headquarters of Aranzadi of San Sebastián, in addition to an informative file, on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of the Shaft Migratory, on May 10. A day that, according to this society, in a note is one of the most impressive phenomena of animal life that celebrates every year It takes millions of birds worldwide to leave their reproduction areas to survive the winter with a migration that can be up to thousands of kilometers.
The Atlas presented today makes an exhausting analysis of each of the 152 species flying over the heaven of the Basque Country country, Including some as popular as the stork, the swallow and the petirrojo; Belleces such as Abubilla, Avefría or the gums, and others less known as the Alca Torda. As an anecdote, the work includes the oldest available case: that of a ringed fair in England in July 1914 and a few months later in Euskadi restored, in July 1914.
Together with photos and drawings, the project makes an exhaustive analysis of migrations of different types with maps and images. According to the ornithologist who is responsible for the project, Maite Laso, LThe data used to work out this compendium has in principle been collected in the Aranzadi Bird Ringing OfficeAn entity with more than 75 years of history that has contributed to the work ‘a solid reliable scientific database’.
During the presentation of Atlas, the director of the Ornithology Department of This Society, Juan Arizaga, The strategic importance of the Basque Country in the migration of birds. An important zone, given its specific geographical location between the north and south -west -Europa, which makes a “funnel effect” that killing “the migrating electricity between the western Pyrenees and the Cantabrian.”
Arizaga has also specified that Euskadi is « One of the most important regions of the continent for the large number of birds that travel and stop in the territory during their journey to the areas where winter«.
In addition to the atlas and the file file, Aranzadi has developed didactic material on this phenomenon aimed at all Basque schools and has Plann. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM