We are in search of experienced and qualified ringers to ring in Beit-Shean Valley in the following spring season. The work will take place in the ringing station in Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Northern Israel and in other sites in the area.

Schedule

The ringing will take place from the beginning of February 2002 until the end of May 2002 and from August 2002 till end of November 2002.

Qualifications:

• Volunteers should have a ringing license (A permit)
• Preferably, volunteers should be able to commit for at least one month.

Terms:

We shall provide volunteers with accommodation in Kibbutz Kfar-Ruppin. Traveling to and from Israel will be on the volunteers' account.

If you are interested, please send your cv and ringing permit to:

and we shall contact you immediately.

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Ringing Programme of Migratory Passerines in Doñana

Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) / SEO-BirdLife / Ayuntamiento de Almonte

Dear friends,

The Team of Natural Processes Monitoring belonging to the Biological Station of Doñana, organises, with the collaboration this year of SEO- BirdLife and The Council of Almonte, the ringing programme of passerines during the postnuptial migration in the Ringing Station of Manecorro (National Park of Doñana, South-west Spain). This campaign comes developing every autumn from 1994 and it has a duration of 9 weeks (from September 1 at November 7).

So far some 30000 birds have been captured of around a hundred different species, the mean for the campaign being up to 4000 birds. The most abundant species trapped are: Robin (Erithacus rubecula), Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), Garden Warbler (S. borin), Whitethroat (S. communis), Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), Willow Warbler (P. trochilus) and Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca ).

Some species that have also been captured are considered as rare birds in Spain such as Siberian Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita tristis), Dusky Warbler (P. fuscatus), Yellow-browed Warbler (P. inornatus), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva), Collared Flycatcher (F. albicollis), Semi-collared Flycatcher (F. semitorquata) and Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus ).

To carry out the ringing programme the collaboration of expert ringers with good knowledge on moult is requested, as well as people that has some notions of scientific ringing and want to participate as assistant. Lodging for the collaborators of this campaign will be facilitated by the Biological Station of Doñana in El Rocío village, distant only 1 Km of the ringing station. Daily ringings run from dawn until the setting of sun, so we need people that don’t care to work hard.

People interested in participating in this ringing programme can contact us in the following address:

José Luis Arroyo Matos

Reserva Biológica de Doñana

Apdo. 4. 21760 Matalascañas, Huelva, Spain

Tel.: + 34 959 440032 / 36 - Fax.: +34 959 440033

e-mail: joseluis@ebd.csic.es jlam-1@teleline.es

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MIGRATION THROUGHT THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR MONITORING SHEME

(Programa MIGRES)

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, AUTUMN 1999

The Strait of Gibraltar (southern tip of Cádiz province, Andalucía, Spain) is the most important “bottle-neck” for central and western europe migratory birds crossing the Mediterranean Sea, travelling towards and from their wintering quarters in the african continente. Their only 14 km of maximun wide made this area specially important for soaring birds (storks, vultures, eagles…), wich during autumn migration concentrates by hundreds of thousands in the area of Tarifa waiting for suitable winds to allow them crossing to Africa.

The Regional Government of Andalucía (Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucía) is funding from 1997 onwards, and for a period of five years, the monitoring of autumn migration of soaring birds, as a first phase of wich wants to be a complete long term monitoring scheme of bird migration throught the Strait of Gibraltar (Programa MIGRES). Coordination of field work is done by the Spanish partner of BirdLife International (Sociedad Española de Ornitología).

During four months (mid July-mid October) different observatories are placed along the Spanish migration front of the Strait of Gibraltar each year, and volunteers are needed to cover them, together with the specialists responsibles of the project. Volunteers will be selected according with their own experience, disponibility of time, knowledge of the area (althought not imprescindible). Food and accomodation expenses will be fully covered by the Junta de Andalucía, and minimum periods of 12 or 15 days of staying are required from the start of the campaign (15 July), with fixed days for arrival and departure that will be confirmed. Applications should be received before 15 May 1999, and confirmation by coordinators, and further information, will be send to volunteers during June.

Volunteers will be asked for a brief curriculum (not neccessary for participants in previous MIGRES campaigns) and details about prefered dates. For registration and information:

Programa MIGRES

Sociedad Española de Ornitología

C/ Miguel Bravo Ferrer, 25 bajo

E-41005 SEVILLA

Phone & fax: +34 95 464 42 94

E-mail: migres@seo.org

Programa MIGRES

Huerta Grande

Parque Natural Los Alcornocales

Ctra. Nacional N-340, km 96

Phone: +34 956 67 91 61

And also by e-mail, from the local environmental administration (Delegación Provincial de la Consejería de Medio Ambiente en Cádiz): sv.e.ca@cma.junta-andalucia.es