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Tringa Glareola 2000&Rdquo 30 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 Pluvialis squatarolathe 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
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