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Elenco partecipanti
Personale Valle Dogà (Battiva Eliseo, Carrara Sergio, Enzo Maurizio,
Sperandio Roberto, Varsalona Luigi).
Personale tecnico (Anoè Renato, Baccetti Nicola, Basso Marco, Bini
Antonella, Borghello Silvia, Borgo Francesca, Borin Paolo, Catalano Anna,
Catalano Licia, Cester Dario, Cherubini Giuseppe, Cherubini Orazio, Longo
Marco, Panzarin Lucio, Pegoraro Loris, Penzo Luisella, Piva Luigi, Roppa
Flavio, Tenan Simone, Utmar Paolo).
Gruppo Canoa Mestre (Agresti Agata, Bertoldo Andrea, Di Donato
Camilla, Dogà Diego, Gambarotto Luca, Iacopino Simone, Mantovani Alessandro,
Nencha Umberto, Panetti Barbara, Puppola Francesca, Ruara Alvise, Scarpa
Davide, Zennaro Nicola. |
Report in English
(from an e-mail to the Flamingo Specialist Group):
... another piece of news from
Italy. Yesterday 7 chicks of Greaters were trapped and ringed at the small,
new colony in the Lagoon of Venice. Unfortunately, these were Greaters
not only as a species, but also in size and age: most of the group of 22
passed a few metres above our heads as soon as we got too close, and even
some of the remaining seven birds could well have taken off, had they
decided to do so. Anyway, it was a very interesting opportunity for a
number of reasons e.g. adapting usual methods to different habitat
conditions. 'How is it possible to be a Venetian?' so started Mike Smart's
booklet on the Venice lagoon - this holds true for our catch here: how to
solve a lot practical problems not existing at ordinary flamingo sites.
The corral was built in the water, not on dry land. All beaters were in
canoes, not a single one on foot. The staff from the local private
property helped us in every possible way, bringing us on 2 big boats close
to the colony (half an hour travel through a labirynth of channels),
towing a ponton loaded with canoes and other stuff (see photo). Their
contribution was crucial: and this is the most important aspect of the
story. If you remind the troubles raised by local hunters in this area,
being very concerned last winter on duck food consumption by increasing
flamingo numbers, the fact that one of the hunting estates has allowed
flamingos to breed successfully and has actively collaborated to the
ringing operation gives our 7 youngsters a lot of political importance.
The province police sent 3 of its guards to join the catch and organized
the approach to the land owner; the
canoeing-club of Mestre made people
and canoes available; Lucio Panzarin was the main practical organizer. The
other photo that I'm attaching represents very well the unusual mixture of
very different contributions that featured the Venice operation: my friend
Renato Anoè on the left (senior guard of the province police, in
un-conventional watercraft) and the canoeing-club youngsters on the right,
both being herded by the local wetland wardens on a traditional rowing
boats equipped with gondola-like oar-forks (note the crossed oars - the
right arms operates the left oar and vice versa - the so-called vallesana
technique, something very difficult for outsiders!).
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