Another Autumn, another ringing season on Chituc Spit
After having broken all previous camp records last fall, we can consider the current season a more typical one: we ended our eleventh consecutive Autumn ringing with a total of…
7 500 birds ringed at Chituc Ringing Camp up until now
We are halfway through the 11th consecutive season of ringing on Chituc Spit and we can confidently say that we have a slightly better year than the average: we ringed…
We’re counting the days till the start of our ringing camp
We are preparing for our 11th consecutive year at the Chituc Ringing Camp. 2023 was a year far beyond our expectations: we worked with 180 volunteers and ringed 23 000…
This year’s was the best Chituc ringing camp ever!
This year we celebrated the tenth consecutive autumn ringing in Chituc Spit by breaking every previously set record! 2023, much like 2014 and 2019, was marked by a strong influx…
A day at Chituc
A decade of work on the Chituc spit is cause for celebration. That is why we have prepared a short video about our work and that of our volunteers in…
A weaker Autumn migration at Chituc Ringing Camp
We ended our ninth consecutive Autumn ringing with fewer birds than we expected, but we are very happy that the weather allowed us to stay on Chituc Spit until November…
14,000 birds ringed at Chituc Ringing Camp in 2021
We ended the eighth consecutive ringing season on the first week of November on Chituc spit. In the 104 days of ringing, we marked 14727 birds of 114 species, among…
Fig. 3. Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpes) ringed in 2014 and resighted near the camp five years later.
We successfully completed the sixth consecutive ringing season on Chituc Spit!
Written by: Attila Marton Most migratory birds cross Europe using two main routes: the East-Atlantic flyway is used by birds from Eastern Canada, Greenland and Western Europe, which pass to…
2019, a new year of ringing on Chituc Spit!
In the past five years of ringing on Chituc Spit 65630 individuals of 150 species were caught, the most abundant species being: Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva, 6552 individuals), Robin (Erithacus…
Foto: Cornel Cotorogea
The results of the fifth consecutive season at the Chituc Ringing Camp
After 111 days of continuous ringing between 13 July and 30 October, we ringed 17889 birds belonging to 108 species. Of these species, 18 were captured for the first time…
2018: the fifth consecutive year of ringing on Chituc Spit!
In the past four years of ringing on Chituc Spit 47740 individuals of 132 species were caught, the most abundant species being: Red-Breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva, 5502 individuals), Robin (Erithacus…
Chituc Ringing Camp will be up and running in 2017 as well!
Milvus Group Association organized in 2014-2016 an annual ringing camp for studying the migration dynamics of passerine species that cross through the Chituc sandbank. In the first three years of…
12 146 ringed birds in 2016 in the Chituc Ringing Camp!
Rare Birds Ringed at Chituc Ringing Camp!
Kingfisher in the net (Alcedo atthis) Milvus Group specialists have managed this summer to catch, ring and release some quite rare birds for Romania: Greenish Warblers (Phylloscopus trochiloides), Pallas's Leaf…
The Chituc Ringing Camp continues in 2015
In 2014, the “Milvus Group” Bird and Nature Protection Association organized a ringing camp on the Chituc Sandbank, during which 12877 birds, belonging to 100 species were captured and marked. We wish to continue the ringing in this year also, and we are counting once again on the help of enthusiast ringers and volunteers. (more…)
