How are songbirds in the region recorded?
Lecture on scientific bird ringing on 11 November, 5 p.m., Chemnitz Nature Conservation Station, Adelsbergstraße 192
On Tuesday, 11 November at 5 p.m., interested parties are invited to a lecture on "Scientific bird ringing in the Limbacher Teiche European bird sanctuary" by Dieter Kronbach from the Chemnitz volunteer nature conservation service.
The event will take place at the Chemnitz Nature Conservation Centre, Adelsbergstraße 192.
Admission is free of charge.
For 27 years, ornithologist Dieter Kronbach from Limbach-Oberfrohna has been catching and ringing birds with the help of nets between the beginning of May and the end of August in accordance with the established criteria of the "Integrated Monitoring of Songbirds" (IMS). In his presentation, he will use interesting photos to explain how such a "trapping day" works, which birds are netted and what conclusions can be drawn about the population development of individual bird species.
Populations of wild birds are subject to a pronounced dynamic of increase and decrease. The focus of nature conservation is primarily on small and or declining bird populations in order to protect them from regional disappearance or even extinction through targeted conservation measures.
Various research programmes for a number of small bird species make an independent and important contribution to the question of "how". One such monitoring programme is the "Integrated Monitoring of Songbirds" (IMS). The IMS was set up by the three German ornithological stations Radolfzell, Helgoland and Hiddensee and the German Avifaunist Association (DDA) with the aim of collecting data on the population development of songbird species throughout Germany during the breeding season using this standardised survey method. The data is transferred to the mainframe computer at the Hiddensee bird ringing centre using the computer program "BERIHIDD", which was specially developed for bird ringing, and is thus available to the specialist authorities for analysis.