Since 1991 more than 400 pullus Avocet have been fitted with numbered metal and black plastic ring engraved with alpha-numeric code. Birds are ringed at breeding sites in some coastal wetlands of Emilia-Romagna region (NE Italy). Birds have now been observed in several sites of Italy (around the study area) and in Hungary, Spain, Portugal and Marocco. Thanks to the activity of many shorebird watcher who, like Avocet, spent mostly of their time in salt wetlands of Mediterranean Basin.
Location of sightings of foreign Avocet ringed in wetlands of North-western Adriatic coast (1991-1996)
Pullus ringed in may 1991 in the Salina di Cervia (NE Italy) and sighted in Meksikopuszta (Hungary, east side of Neusiedel See) in June 1997 (T. Hadarics and S. Mogyorosi sighted).
A ringed pullus of Avocet