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Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) male ringed Malta
2024-03-28
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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) male ringed, Għadira Nature Reserve, Malta. Bird ringing is a vital activity that helps protect birds. In Malta, birds are humanely caught in mist nets which are checked every ten minutes. Each bird is ringed and weighed before being released. About 10% are retraps (i.e. they have been ringed before). Ringing has shown that birds from at least 48 countries use Malta during migration. Unfortunately, Malta has the densest population of bird hunters in the European Union. The high numbers of wild birds illegally shot in Malta has led to the European Commission taking legal infringement proceedings against the Maltese Government over Article 5 of the Birds Directive. Many thanks to BirdLife Malta for access to their ringing programme.
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