EURAPMON SUMMER SCHOOL

ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY

- EURAPMON SUMMER SCHOOL -

MONITORING FOR AND WITH RAPTORS 

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands 

27–29 August 2014 

JOIN LEADING SCIENTISTS AND PRACTITIONERS AT ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 

APPLY NOW – FULL FUNDING AVAILABLE TO WINNING APPLICANTS – DEADLINE: Monday 28 JULY 2014!

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MEDRAPTORS has reached 10 years of activity! Join the MEDRAPTORS meeting

Our reached goals:

• Tens of publications
• Different new migratory flyways have been discovered  
• Observation camps
• Collaboration effort with different research organizations belonging to different countries
• 11 discussed theses (2 Ph.D., 5 M.Sc, 4 B.Sc.) in five different Universities

To discuss about what it was done and about future projects and to meet together we invite all our friends and colleagues to come at the Medraptors meeting the next September on the Aspromonte mountain (Southern Italy).
The meeting will be held in Gambarie d'Aspromonte (Reggio Calabria) on the 19th, the 20th and the 21st of September 2014.

Chronological schedule:

• 19th evening: meeting point
• 20th observations on raptor migration. In this period  the passage of Marsh Harriers and juvenile Honey Buzzards occurs. In the evening we'll have dinner in a typical restaurant and we'll have the chance to discuss together. 
• 21st observations on raptor migration

The participation is free
(dinner and accommodation have to be charged on the participants, accommodation is possible in a agreed upon bed & breakfast)

Gambarie is a small village located at about 1350 metres a.s.l. inside the Aspromonte National Park. The area is covered by forests of beech and silver fir. The area is the most important bottleneck for the autumn migration of raptors in the Central Mediterranean area and last year  30.000 raptors heading south were counted.
It is possible to reach Gambarie with a bus from Reggio Calabria where there is both the train station and the airport.
For further information contact us.

A new fieldwork!

The breeding season is closed in the end (more or less) for the European raptors and in the next weeks they will start again to move across the Central Mediterranean area. Therefore we are close to start a new fieldwork on the Aspromonte mountain together with our colleagues of Ornis Italica. In that area last year were counted about 30000 thousand raptors, mostly Honey Buzzards, Black Kites and Marsh Harriers. Raptors migrate following the ridge of the Apennines heading toward Sicily and flying over the forest and the plain of the Aspromonte before crossing the Strait of Messina.

For further information about the project contact us.

Black Kites in Central Italy

In Central Italy chicks of the Black Kite are close to fledgling. Here in the picture below an adult individual feeding the youngs in its nest. The picture was taken yestarday morning in the Natural Reserve of Decima Malafede close to Rome.