{"id":18530,"date":"2020-10-23T20:31:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/we-are-closing-this-years-ring-camp-sooner-than-planned-due-to-a-vegetation-fire\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:31:01","slug":"we-are-closing-this-years-ring-camp-sooner-than-planned-due-to-a-vegetation-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/en\/we-are-closing-this-years-ring-camp-sooner-than-planned-due-to-a-vegetation-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"We are closing this year’s ring camp sooner than planned due to a vegetation fire"},"content":{"rendered":"This year’s ring camp on Chituc Spit ended abruptly due to a vegetation fire that endangered our nets, the camp and our volunteers.\n\"\"\nThe fire broke out on October 14, near Vadu. Although it was initially extinguished by firefighters, it reignited after a short time and spread rapidly. The southern wind brought the flames along the shores of Lake Sinoe next to the camp on Friday, October 16, and spread further north at night. After the wind started to blow from the west and the flames got closer to the camp, we decided to finish the ringing activity and evacuate the spit. Thus, we ended the 2020 edition of the ringing camp two weeks earlier than we would have hoped to do so, ringing a total of 9253 birds belonging to 104 species. The most abundant species caught this year were: the red-breasted flycatcher (1531 individuals), the willow warbler (1270) and the chiffchaff (870).\n\n