New Stone-Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus wintering site in central Italy

摘要

Except in Spain and the Maghreb, where the species is largely sedentary, most Western Palearctic Stone-Curlew populations winter in North and sub-Saharan Africa (Cramp & Simmons 1983). In Italy the population is mainly migratory in the north but varying from partially migratory to resident in the centre and south and on the Italian islands (Meschini 2010). Although probably underestimated, the largest wintering population in Italy is in Sardinia where the most recent count was 188 (Nissardi & Zucca 2009). Other wintering populations occur in Sicily, Apulia and Tuscany (Tinarelli et al. 2009). The most recent estimate of the number of Stone-Curlews wintering in continental Italy is 130, mainly in Tuscany (Giovacchini et al. 2009) and Emilia-Romagna (Tinarelli et al. 2009).