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Between
9th and 13th June 2001 a joint German-Spanish team visited the Polish
locality of Zmigrod, to try to catch and colour-band some cranes there.
The team was attending the invitation of our Polish colleage Krzysztof Konieczny
during the meeting of the ECWG in Verdun, France (11-13.November.2000).
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Green
Long / Yellow-White-Red + metal,
the first colour-banded crane in Poland
(Pictures
J.A. Alonso )
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On
10th June, at 14.00 we catched the first young crane at
the locality of Bialawy Male. It was a nice 2450g bird
who got the Green- Long / Yellow-White-Red colour code,
the first ever used in Poland.
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Krzysztof Konieczny is holding the bird
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Great celebration after the first successful
colour-banding. From left to right: Juan C. Alonso,
Simone Röper, Hermann Dirks (standing), Krzysztof Konieczny
(with the bird), Günter Nowald, Thomas Fichtner,
Andreas Pschorn, Volker Günther and Javier A. Alonso
Picture Anja Kluge
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A
couple of hours later we catched the second one in
Turzany, and the next day four young more, two siblings in
Bieliszów, one Ciechanów, who got the first transmitter
used in Poland (frequency 148.732MHz) and one in
Swierczów. On 12 June we banded another young in Zabór
Wielki, also with a transmitter (frequency
148.636MHz)
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The
first radiomarked Polish young upon releasing
Pictures J.A. Alonso
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Some
of the young found were still
too small to carry even the colour rings
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Acknowledgements.-
We
wish to thank Kranich-Informationszentrum for
organizing the first colour-banding and radiomarking
expedition to Poland, as well as financing two
radiotransmitters. Lufthansa kindly provided
facilities to travel between Spain and Germany for two
Spanish researchers.
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Radio-marking cranes in Poland, June 2002
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