Ringing center Hiddensee
The Hiddensee ringing center is a state institution on behalf of the State Office for the Environment and Nature of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Department of Nature Conservation, based in Güstrow . She is responsible for the ringing of birds in the eastern Baltic Sea region, northeast Germany and eastern Germany excluding Berlin.
history
The name ringing Hiddensee derives from the bird observatory of the still existing ornithological research institute University of Greifswald from. The institute and the ornithological station on the island of Hiddensee were founded at the beginning of the 1930s as the Hiddensee Biological Research Institute . Since the 1960s, the Hiddensee ornithological station was the only purely ornithological research facility in the GDR and, at the same time, its national ringing center, which issued its own bird rings .
The federal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Thuringia , Brandenburg , Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt secured the joint financing of the Hiddensee ringing center in 1994 through an administrative agreement. Since then it has been working as an independent institution under the umbrella of the State Office for the Environment and Nature of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Department of Nature Conservation.
job
The bird ringing at the Hiddensee ringing center is based on the cooperation of many voluntary helpers. In addition to the ringing of the Hiddensee ornithological station, birds are marked in all the connected federal states (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia). In these federal states, ringing may only be carried out by the Hiddensee ringing center. The rings have had the inscription HIDDENSEE GERMANIA or VOGELWARTE HIDDENSEE GERMANIA since 1991 . The suffix is a combination of two letters and up to six numbers. In addition, colored rings are used for large birds ( great bustards ), which can be read without catching the bird.
literature
- Ulrich Köppen: Three decades of the Hiddensee ringing center (1964–1994) - a look back. In: The ornithological station. Vol. 39, Schmitdt, Neustadt-Aisch 1997, ISSN 0049-6650 , pp. 34-47.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 70 years of the Hiddensee ornithological station - an annotated timetable. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 16, 2011 ; accessed on June 16, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hiddensee ringing center
Coordinates: 54 ° 35 '23.3 " N , 13 ° 6' 7.8" E