Pintail
(Anas acuta). Female 2º year. Carrying a pale blue nasal band
[12]. It was marked in the Gargáligas reservoir (Badajoz) on 11th
December 2012 and was seen in northern France on its first spring
migration (2nd March 2013) and at Galisteo (Cáceres) eon
its second autumn journey (25th September 2013, photo). Most of the
Pintail that winter in Spain originate from northern Russia.
During
2013
SEO/BirdLife
brought its vast databank
from ringing up to date
(more
than seven million birds ringed and about 400,000 recoveries). With
this information now updated, members of the public can now access it
through a new app
www.anillamientoseo.org through
which one can consult the information, which is updated every day.
Furthermore, it allows one to enter recoveries as well as requesting
data on ringing and recoveries for scientific study.
In
2013 SEO/BirdLife
took over the tracking management from ICONA, which had been
responsible for the scientific ringing of wild birds, following a
pause of two years, because of lack of funding from the Ministry of
the Environment. During
2013 59,500 data were handled,
that is to say 59,500 tales of travelling birds. Amongst them, we
would like to highlight two related to Extremadura.
Sadly, in
both cases, the information came from birds killed by hunters.
The
first, a Pintail (Anas acuta) was ringed by
the University of Extremadura in Badajoz province in 2009 and
recovered in June 2013 in Archangel (in the north of European
Russia) a distance of 4,243 km. It represented the longest
distance recovery from Extremadura in
2013 and the second longest from Spain.
The
second, a Song Thrush
(Turdus
philomelos)
was ringed as a nestling in Estonia (in
Toolse, Laane-Virumaa) on 20th
June 2013 and recovered on 17th
November the same year in Olivenza
(Badajoz) after 3,307 kms from its place of origin and
168 days afterwards. This was the second longest journey recorded in
2013.
