VOLUME 12 (i-ii) 2022
Articoli e Note/ Papers & Notes
- La riproduzione del Grifone Gyps fulvus in Sardegna. Periodo 2017-2021. Alfonso Campus
Pellicano comune Pelecanus onocrotalus. Giangiorgio Crisponi
Recensioni/ Reviews
Foto di copertina/ Cover photograph: Adulto di Venturone corso Carduelis corsicana. Sardegna settentrionale, aprile 2022./ Adult Corsican Finch, Northern Sardinia, April 2022 (Oscar Mura).
ABSTRACTS
Marcello
Grussu
Nuovo
elenco degli Uccelli della Sardegna (Italia), 2022.
To mid 2022, the avifauna of Sardinia included 405 species (244 belonging to the Non Passeriformes and 161 to the Passeriformes). The number of species has increased significantly compared to surveys from 1995 (352 species, an increase of 53) and 2001 (362 species, an increase of 43). This further increase resulted from:
a) field observation of new vagrants
b) recent taxonomic changes
c) discovery of previously unreported species in Museum collections.
By 2022, 91 species can be considered sedentary on the island (compared to 76 in 2001); while breeding species (regular and occasional) amount to 170 (162 in 1995 and 163 in 2001). For six species, breeding was recorded for the first time this century. These are Mareca strepera (first breeding record: 2004), Marmaronetta angustirostris (2013), Phoeniconaias minor (2017), Neophron percnopterus (2019), Myiopsitta monachus (2007) and Psittacula krameri (2006); and recently, data on the historical breeding of Tichodroma muraria have been collected. In addition, the breeding of Pandion haliaetus, considered extinct on the island in the last century (last evidence c. 1965), was verified in 2020; its reproduction was also confirmed in 2021 and 2022. On the other hand, seven species can be considered extinct in Sardinia: Oxyura leucocephala (last breeding record: 1977), Gypaetus barbatus (1968-69), Aegypius monachus (1961), Aquila fasciata (1985-90), Haliaeetus albicilla (1956), Hydroprogne caspia (1837) and Chlidonias niger (1960-65). There are 113 accidental species, which means species recorded less than 10 times. A total of 53 species are recorded as historical accidentals, or as species last recorded in Sardinia before the year 2000. Further 69 species are currently excluded from the checklist because they are considered to be of doubtful natural origin or because of uncertain/wrong identifications. (porphyrio@tiscali.it)
The breeding of Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in
Sardinia in the 2017-2021 period.
In the period from the years 2017-21 the population of the Griffon Vulture in Sardinia has continued its progressive increase. The number of territorial pairs increased from 45 pairs in 2017 to 66 in 2021, while the number of fledged young ranged from 25 in 2017 to 45 in 2021. The whole breeding population is still concentrated on the north-west coast, close to Bosa, but the presence of a small population (increasing in the number of pairs) is also regularly confirmed further north, on the coast of Alghero. (fofo.campus@tiscali.it)
PhotoSpot: Pellicano comune Pelecanus onocrotalus.
