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Workshop on Project "Tringa glareola 2000" and Seminar "Research on Wader Migration in Poland"- 21-22 November 1998, Gdynia, Poland.

Magdalena Remisiewicz& Mateusz Sciborski

Remisiewicz,M. & Sciborski,M. 1999.Workshop on Project"Tringa glareola 2000" andSeminar "Research on WaderMigration m Poland"- 21-22 November 1998, Gdynia, Poland.Wader Study Group Bull. 89:30 - 31

MagdalenaRemisiewicz & MateuszSciborski, Waterbird Research Group "KULING", c/o Dept. of VertebrateZoology and Ecology,Univ. of Gdansk,al. Legion6w9, 80-441 Gdansk,Poland,' E-mail.' [email protected]

The WaderStudy Groupprogramme (Poland)by the WRG "KULING". keen "KULING" bird-ringers "Tringaglareola 2000", co-ordinated During the meeting,participants from succeededin catchinga male Mallard, by the WaterbirdResearch Group Poland, Sweden, Romania, Estonia and triumphantlygiving it the name "KULING" has developedremarkably Ukrainepresented the resultsof pastand "Conference". Other attractions sinceits startin 1997. Its main purpose, presentstudies on the speciesin their providedfor the guestswere two to definethe migrationroutes of Wood countries. A common set of exhibitionsprepared especially for the Sandpiperand investigate its migration measurements to be taken from Wood workshop.The "Museumof WRG strategy,seems to be met by the Sandpiperswas agreed,including new KULING" presentedhistorical pieces of methodsused. They include:colour measures(primary wear, fat score)to be equipmentused during fieldwork or ringing,dyeing, counts and tested.Topic groups, expressing specimensreferring to important observations(for more detailed individualinterests in analysing momentsin the historyof the group descriptionof the project- seeWSG particularproblems; migration (someof the exhibitswere 15 years Bull. 84: 21-22). The network of sites dynamics,recoveries, biometrics, moult, old). The other was a collection of contributinghas been growing refuelhngstrategy, were established. beer-cupsfrom all over the world by continuouslyand at this moment Furthermore,the strategyof CezaryW6jcik (Attila Sandor,a consistsof 30 sitesfrom 21 European fund-raising at the internationaland Romaniancolleague, revealed a wide andAfrican countries. The programhas nationallevel was discussed,bearing in knowledgeof that subjectand helped been widely publicisedamongst mind not only the specificproject Cezary to identify someof the ornithologistsand birdwatchersin many demands,but alsothe everydayneeds of mysteriouscups). The informal countries,thanks to the activities of the runningthe fieldworkin unstable meetingslasting long into the night projectparticipants and also the economic conditions. All the provedthe establishmentof good spontaneoushelp of other wader participantsregarded sharing experience personalcontacts. enthusiasts.The requestto look out for as an importantelement of the project, colour-ringedWood Sandpipershas so exchangevisits between ringing The day before the workshop,the first alreadybrought promising results. The stations, dissemination of news on the Polish Seminar "Research on Wader recoveryrate from Wood Sandpipers project,further meetings and means of Migration in Poland"was held at the colour-marked at the Reda mouth (Gulf keepingclose contact were agreed. samevenue. It was a successfulattempt of Gdafisk) is more than twice that from Despitethe projectname, it will be to summariseknowledge on that topic. traditionalringing. Combinedwith necessaryto prolongthe researchfor The meetinggathered representatives of migrationdynamics it has alreadygiven one or two more seasons,as the project all the mostimportant Polish wader •mportantnew informationon Tringa was still being setup in 1997 and 1998. studycentres, who presentedboth glareolaflyways. While ringing, After collectingsufficient data, final reportsfrom their ringingor observation biometric data is collected resultswill be publishedwith activitiesand originalstudies based on (measurementsof ca. 8,000 individuals contributionsfrom all participantsas a that material. All participantsagreed will be availablefor the project)and specialissue dedicated to Wood that closerco-operation between wader regularcounts are providedby most Sandpipermigration. The intentionof specialists,in particularstandardisation sites. It will allow comparisonof participantsto establisha co-operative of methodsand effective exchange of migrationpatterns in differentparts of networkof stationswas expressed, with information,is needed. They have also Europeand Africa. the objectiveof working togethernot expressedthe wish to organiseon an only on Wood Sandpipermigration, but annual basis further seminars dedicated In order to establish common alsoon otherspecies and topics. to the subjectand to publishyearly methodologicalstandards of collecting reportsfrom wader activitiesin Poland. data, as well as to discussorganisational During pausesin the intensive Following the participantswishes, a •ssues,the first workshopon the Project deliberations,the ornithologicaleffort second Pohsh seminar, this time "Tringaglareola 2000" was organised was continuedat the nearbyseashore, dedicatedto studiesnot only on wader on 22nd November 1998 in Gdynia despitethe harshweather. A groupof migrationbut alsoon breeding,will be 31 organisedby WRG KULING on 4 canutusand Pluvialissquatarola the attractivehabitat was the empty bottom December 1999 in Gdafisk. All most common at seashore sites, and of fishponds.Therefore, in springthe Polish-speakingwader specialists are Gallinago gallinago and Tringa area was usedmostly by the earliest welcome! glareola additionallyfalling in the migrants(Vanellus vanellus, groupof dominantsin mixedhabitats. Philomachuspugnax andLimosa The talksgiven during both the Polish Distribution of recoveries(800 limosa),which arrivedbefore the ponds and the internationalmeeting, long-distancerecords, for Gallinago were filled, and in autunmby the latest summarisedbelow, were publishedin gallinagoand Tringa totanus- mapsof ones (Vanellusvanellus, P luvialis Englishas a separateissue of journal recoveriespresented) clearly indicates squatarola,Pluvialis apricaria and "TheRing" (Vol. 18, 1998). The that, in many ringed species,two inland Calidris alpina) which cameinto the volume(20 USD + postagecosts) can routes, to the Mediterranean and to the area after the pondshad been emptied. be ordered from the Editor Balkansand the Black Sea region (Przebendowo3, 84-210 Choczewo, respectively,are usedas well asthe Autumn migration of waders at the Poland;E-mail: [email protected]) and coastal route. A list of all KULING SewageTreatment Plant in Fasty near somecopies will be availableat the paperson wadersis given. Bialystok (eastern Poland) WSG Annual Meeting 1999 in France. Michal Polakowski,Maciej Juniewicz, Spring assemblagesof wadersin flood M. Juniewicz, ul. Rzemiecelnicza 4 b, plains of the lower Biebrza and the 15-773 Bialystok,Poland; E-mail.' middle Narew river valleys [email protected]. szczecin.pl ABSTRACTS FROM THE 1ST Andrzej G6rski, JacekJ. Nowakowski, Detailed analysisof occurrenceand POLISH SEMINAR "RESEARCH Departmentof Ecologyand phenologyof 23 wader species,made on ON WADERS MIGRATION IN EnvironmentalProtection, Pedagogical the basisof regular autumncounts POLAND", 21ST NOVEMBER 1998, University,10-561 Olsztyn,Zolnierska conductedin years 1994 - 1998. The GDYNIA, POLAND 14, Poland,' E-mail: dominatingmigrants were Vanellus [email protected]. vanellus,Tringa glareola and Wader ringing at the Vistula mouth An analysisof speciescomposition, Philomachuspugnax.The passage (Baltic coast, Poland) - a summary of dominationstructure and ecological throughthe area was initiatedin July by the long-term studies characteristicsof waderassemblages Limosa limosa and Tringa totanus,then JadwigaGromadzka, Gdansk observedin the springsof 1990 - 1992 stintsand sandpipersoccurred with the OrnithologicalStation, Institute of in two vast wetland areas in eastern peak concentrationsin September,and Ecology,Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. The speciescomposition (17 the latestmigrants noted till the end of ul. Nadwicelanska 108, 80-680 Gdansk species)was very similarin bothsites, October were Charadrius hiaticula and 40, Poland; E-mail.' with Philomachuspugnax, Vanellus Calidris alpina. [email protected]. vanellus and Limosa limosa as A summaryof almost40 yearsof dominants.Amongst the Ringing of waders on the autunmwader catching. The morpho-ecologicalgroups only those barrier-reservoirs of Silesia unquestionabledominant was Calidris which are characteristicof marshy (south-western Poland) in years 1978 alpina, which considerably meadowsand swampgrassland were - 1990 outnumberedthe other commonly well representedwhile specieswhich TadeuszStawarczyk, Natural History caughtspecies such as Calidris minuta, forage on the shorewere extremely Museum, ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Actitishypoleucos or Calidris scarce. The observed wader Wroclaw, Poland; E-mail: ferruginea. The migrationperiods of concentrationswere the highestnoted stawar@uni. wroc.p l adultsand juveniles of observedspecies on springmigration in Poland(up to Ringingreport from autumncatches wererepeatable from year to year, over 91,000 individuals). The migration performedon threeclose althoughthe numberof youngbirds periodwas divided,using cluster barrier-reservoirsin differentyears varieddepending on the breeding analysis,into four phasesdiffering in from the given period. The most success.The turn-over in all species speciesrichness, species diversity and numerousof the 19 waderspecies wasrapid. The average(for all species) domination structure. ringed were Tringa glareola, Gallinago recoveryrate was 3%, with recoveries gallinago andActitis hypoleucoswith all from Siberia,through Europe, to Spring and autumn migration of the otherspecies giving a very low southern Africa. waders in the Notea• river valley proportionin catches.Although Piotr Indykiewicz,Zoology Dept., Calidridswere generallyscarce, in 1989 Wader studies of the Waterbird Universityof Technologyand they occurredin conspicuous ResearchGroup KULING in 1983 - Agriculture,ul. Kordeckiego20, abundance.The substantialmajority of 1998 85-225 Bydgoszcz,Poland; E-mail.' the 54 foreign recoveriesreferred to WlodzimierzMeissner, Magdalena [email protected] Gallinago gallinago. Severalrecords of Remisiewicz,Dept. of Vertebrate Detailed accountsand phenology of 24 foreign-ringedbirds and Polishones Ecologyand Zoology,Univ. of Gdansk, waderspecies occurring at four gave somesuggestions about the origin al. Legion6w9, 80-441 Gdansk, fishpondcomplexes in the Note•eriver of caughtwaders. Poland;E-mail: [email protected]. valley (centralPoland), based on regular A summaryof springand autumn observationsperformed in years 1989 - ringingand counts conducted in the 1996. The resultsare comparedwith Gulf of Gdafiskregion (Poland) by literatureevidence dating back to the WRG KULING. Twenty-seven species 1970s. The numberand species of waderwere caught, with Calidris compositiondepended on the timing of alba, Arenaria interpres,Calidris changesin water level as the most 32

Report on ringing and observationsof Recoveriesof Swedish-ringed Wood Preliminary data on autumn waders at the Bug river SandpipersTringa glareola migration of Wood Sandpiper Tringa (Central-Eastern Poland) in 1986 - Noel Holmgren,Jan Pettersson,Ottenby glareola in the Western Ukraine 1990 Bird Observatory,P11500 380 65 Ihor Szydlowski& TarasLysaczuk, Cezary Mitrus, Rafal Kuczborski,Jacek Degerhamn,Sweden. Zoological Museumof the Lviv State Slupek,Zoology Dept., Agricultural and An analysisof 647 Tringa glareola University,Hrushevsky str.4, Lviv Pedagogic University,Institute of recoveriesobtained during 55 yearsof 290005, Ukraine,'E-mail: franko@ Biology,ul. Prusa 12, 08-110 Siedlce, Swedishringing schemeactivity. The A preliminary analysisof the datafrom Poland,' E-mail: records(presented on the map), catchingand regular counts performed [email protected] distributedsimilarly for adultsand during autumnmigration in 1995 - An overview of results of autumn juveniles,come from Europeand 1998 by group"Avocetta" in thenature trappingand counts,supported by western Africa. Survival rate in reserve"Cholgynii". Tringa glareola is springobservations. The most common subsequentyears and migration speed the most numerousspecies caught (393 of the 22 ringedwader species were was analysedin both age classes. individualsringed) and the secondmost Actitis hypoleucosand Tringa glareola, observedwader species in the area. and the counts also showed Vanellus Weight studiesin Wood Sandpipers Passagelasted between the end of June vanellusto be in the groupof Tringa glareola, migrating over andthe end of September,but the length dominants.The majority of 19 south-western Scania in late summer of this periodvaried markedly in long-distancerecoveries referred to and spring, with notes on related differentyears. Three migrationpeaks birds shotby hunters,thus Gallinago species. were observed.During the periodof gallinagoreached the highest recovery ChristerPersson, Ljungs•itersv•igen 43, ringing (August)almost exclusively rate despiteits low sharein catches. S-236 41 H6llviken, Sweden; E-mail.' juvenile birdswere caught. Some [email protected]. preliminaryanalyses of biometricsand Catching waders at the Jeziorsko An analysisof the fatteningstrategy of stopoverlength are presented. reservoir (western Poland) Tringa glareola and of otherwader Rafal Bargiel, RadoslawWlodarczyk, speciesin the changeablehabitats and Remarks on the status of Wood Dept. of VertebrateEcology and foodsupply of theOresund area Sandpiper Tringa glareola in Zoology,University of L6dz, ul. (Sweden). Although Tringa glareola Romania Banacha 12/16, 90-237 L6dz, Poland,' hasnarrower habitat preferences than Attila D. Sandor& AndreaVirginas, E-mail.' [email protected]) e.g. Calidris alpina, Tringa totanusand Milvus OrnithologicalGroup, Areport from ten years(1989 - 1998) T. nebularia, over 20% of the birds RO-4300,Tg-Mures, Cp.39. Op. 3., of autumncatching of wadersat the reachedhigh weightsin the area. With Romania,'E-mail: [email protected] barrier-reservoir in the Warta river this amountof fat they are able to reach A review of the literaturedata on Tringa valley. Amongthe 23 speciesof waders the next stagingareas (the Camargue, glareolaspring and autuumn migration, ringed,the mostfrequent were Gulf of Venice)in oneflight. Spring concentratedon the investigationsin the Gallinagogallinago, Tringa glareola birdsweighed on averagemore than Danube Delta region, one of the most andActitis hypoleucos. Among the 89 autumnadults; part of the extra weight importantwader refuelling sites in obtainedrecoveries, recaptures of may be investedin breeding. EasternEurope. Springmigration of the Gallinagogallinago were by far the specieslasts there from end of March most numerous, with one record The autumn passageof Wood till the end of May, while the autumn suggestingthat they are Russian SandpiperTringa glareola in the Bug migrationlasts from the beginningof breeders, and numerous ones from the Valley - dynamicsand biometry August to the end of October. No winteringground (shot birds). CezaryMitrus, Rafal Kuczborski,Jacek recoveries were obtained fi'om 276 Slupek,Zoology Dept., Agriculturaland indvidualsringed in 1988 - 1997,but PedagogicUniversity, Institute of the few recapturesof foreign-ringed PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST Biology, ul. Prusa 12, 08-110 Siedlce, birdsshowed that they originatefrom WORKSHOP ON PROJECT "TRINGA Poland,' E-mail: Finland andmigrate through the Gulf of GLAREOLA 2000", 22ND [email protected] Gdafisk. NOVEMBER 1998, GDYNIA, The studyis basedon the resultsfrom POLAND catchingand countsin 1986-90. Tringa Migration of Wood SandpiperTringa glareolamigration started there in the glareola in Estonia Developmentof the Project "Tringa first half of July,giving threedistinctive JaanusElts, EstonianOrnithological glareola 2000" migrationpeaks till mid-September. Society,P.O. Box 227, Tartu 50002, MagdalenaRemisiewicz, Dept. of The proportionsof adultsand juveniles Estonia,'E-mail: [email protected] VertebrateEcology and Zoology,Univ. in thepeaks are given. The agegroups Data on springand autumnmigration in of Gdafisk,al. LegionOw9, 80-441 differedonly in the wing length. The severallocalities in Estoniaaccording to Gdafisk, Poland,' E-mail.' bimodaldistribution of wing length theliterature since 1954. The spring [email protected]. (irrespectiveof age) suggesteda migrationlasts from mid-March to the A reportpresenting the projectactivities sex-relateddifference. Only one endof May, with the bulk of species in 1997 - 1998, its first results, current recoverywas obtained(France). arrivingin April; autumnpassage and organisationalstatus and prospects. departurestake placebetween the end of Juneand mid-September. In theperiod 1922 - 1995, 170 individuals were ringedand gave only onerecovery - from France.