Text © Pia Fetting
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| Bluethroat 'ZH39059' after ringing © Pia Fetting |
In autumn 2017, around 2’400 birds were ringed at Besh Barmag bottleneck. After several of them were re-trapped during the same period on site already, the message of an individual re-discovered further away came up recently!
On
5 October 2017, a Red-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia
svecica svecica
was ringed as a first year male on its autumn migration. Birds of
this subspecies breed from Scandinavia across Russia to China and
North-Western America. Their wintering grounds are located in
Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Arabia and South-Eastern Asia
(https://www.hbw.com/species/bluethroat-cyanecula-svecica).
Somewhere there the bird must have spent the winter before it was
found on 1 May 2018 in Arzamas, south of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Dr.
Evgenia Malafeeva, the head of the chair of Biology, Geography and
Chemistry at the Arzamas branch of Nizhny Novgorod University
photographed the Bluethroat in her garden 208 days after ringing
about 1’600 km North-North-West of the ringing place.
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| The Bluethroat in Arzamas ©
Dr. Evgenia Malafeeva |
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| Map of the ringing and re-discovery site |
Big
thanks to the observer and photographer, Dr. Evgenia Malafeeva, and
the Bird Ringing Centres of Russia and Hiddensee/ Germany, as well as
the volunteers in field who helped to catch and ring all the birds!
