Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology

Bird ringing in Austria started in the early 20th century and was coordinated by the Radolfzell Bird Ringing Centre (Germany) until 2015, when Austria started a ringing centre of its own, the Austrian Ornithological Centre (AOC). In the same year, the AOC became member of EURING. It is based at the Konrad-Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. The first bird ringed with an official Austrian ring was a blackcap captured in Vienna on April 1st, 2016. Since then, approximately 140,000 birds have been ringed (as of June 2022).

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CZIP, Birdlife Montegro

Center for Protection and Research of Birds (CZIP) is an Euring member from 2015 but ringing in Montenegro started in 2014 at Mareza ringing station that is part of the protected area of Zeta river. Besides Mareza, the ringing was conducted at Šasko lake and Buljarica (Ramsar sites). The main focus of the scheme, for now, is to improve ringing through the activities and education of students and interested people and build up capacities for future ringing. This is the way for taking part in data collecting and contributing.

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Ornithological Society Naše ptice

The first bird ringing program in Bosnia and Herzegovina was launched in 2019 by the Ornithological society "Naše ptice". So far, three ringing training camps have been organized, during which about 8.000 individuals were ringed. Two bird species new to the bird fauna of Bosnia and Herzegovina were registered during the camps. Several birds were also ringed as part of scientific research on breeding biology. In addition to this, three ringers from Hungary, Dr. Tamás Enikő Anna, Horváth Gábor and Kalocsa Béla, marked birds in Hutovo blato during three years, after the camps.

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Catalan Bird Ringing Office

The Catalan Ringing Office (Barcelona, ICO) started life in 1975 as a small ringing group (Grup Català d’Anellament) that for 45 years worked as part of the ICONA-Madrid (ESI) ringing scheme and subsequently the Aranzadi-San Sebastian (ESA) scheme, until in 2021 it became a new EURING scheme (ESC) of its own right. Our scheme comprises around 300 enthusiastic ringers ranging from experts (with a general permit), specific ringers who work on a single species or a limited group for research purposes, to helpers.

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Israel Bird Ringing Center

Israel is located at an important location along a major global flyway for migratory birds, connecting relatively eastern migratory routes to most European countries. For various reasons, ringing and research activities in the Middle East are relatively limited, which makes it difficult to receive reports of ringed birds (retraps, recoveries of dead birds and colour-ring resightings) from countries neighbouring Israel. However, information obtained from bird ringing in Israel is unique, innovative and interesting.

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Schweizerische Vogelwarte

The Swiss Ringing Centre at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach has been coordinating bird ringing in Switzerland since 1924. Ringing activities include monitoring of bird migration in the Swiss Alps and the Jura mountains, monitoring of breeding birds through specialized local populations studies and a relatively recent constant effort site program. The Swiss Ringing Centre contributed all ringing and recovery data of birds ringed in Switzerland to the Migration Atlas and participated in reviewing species accounts.

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