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Diego Rubolini and Matteo Griggio looking at lesser kestrel wing
Jacopo G. Cecere, Andrea Benvenuti and Federico De Pascalis approaching the storm petrel colony
Stefano Podofillini, Liat Segal, Silvia Quilici, Camilla Soravia, Andrea Curcio after having placed nest-boxes on top of a new building in Matera
Jacopo G. Cecere and Matteo Griggio: our first checking of lesser kestrel nest-boxes of ever in Matera (2016)
Our camp on an islet of La Maddalena Archipelago - waiting darkness to work on Scopoli's shearwater
Sara Cioccarelli and Alessandro Mercogliano during fieldwork in Po Plain
Sara Cioccarelli, Michelangelo Morganti and Alessandro Berlusconi checking lesser kestrel nests in Po Plain
Michelangelo Morganti working on nest-boxes in the nesting tower for lesser kestrels
Simona Imperio and Ivan Maggini monitoring a Scopoli's shearwater breeding site
Simona Picardi, Carlo Catoni, Antea Portanova, Jacopo G. Cecere and Alessandro Mazzoleni ... the Scopoli's shearwater team in 2013
Stefano Focardi and Jacopo G. Cecere taking a break during fieldwork in Linosa
Stefano Focardi, Jacopo G. Cecere and Andy Reynolds
Anna Terras, Sara Cioccarelli, Ale Berlusconi, Ale Mercogliano, Aliona Pazhera after having found a new lesser kestrel colony in Po Plain
Anna Terras during fieldwork in Po Plain
Carlo Catoni, Costanza Matricardi and Jacopo G. Cecere during fieldwork in Capraia, Tremiti Archipelago
Carlo Catoni during fieldwork in Capraia, Tremiti Archipelago
Delphine Menard and Stefano Podofillini during nest-box checking in Matera
Federico De Pascalis, Danilo Pisu, Davida Pala, Jacopo G. Cecere, Giulia Masoero sailing toward the storm petrel colony
Fieldwork at La Maddalena
Foradada (Capo caccia – Sardinia)
Jacopo G. Cecere, Stefano Podofilini, Matteo Griggio, Davide Dominoni, Diego Rubolini during a nest-box setting section in Matera
Jennifer Morinay, Danilo Pisu and Federico De Pascalis during fieldwork
Letizia Campioni and Diego Rubolini measuring a Scopoli's shearwater in Capraia, Tremiti Archipelago
Matera (southern Italy) hosts 1000 breeding pairs of lesser kestrels
Matera (southern Italy) is surrounded by natural and farmaland areas
Michelangelo Morganti and Jennifer Morinay ringing lesser kestrel in Matera
Jennifer Morinay, Federico De Pascalis, Jacopo G. Cecere and Rosalino Garbi approaching the gull-billed tern colony
Andrea Benvenuti during fieldwork in Sardinia
David Pala and others during fieldwork in Capo Caccia, Sardinia
David Pala, Jacopo G. Cecere (from behind), Federico De Pascalis, Francesca Visalli during fieldwork in Sardinia
Joan Ferrer Obiol and Marie Claire Gatt in Middleton
2021 Middleton team
Jaon Ferrer Obiol, Marie Claire Gatt, Diego Rubolini, Jacopo G. Cecere and Don-Jean Léandri-Breton ready to sample kittiwakes at the nesting tower in Middleton
The kittiwake nesting tower in Middleton
Gaia Bazzi, Giacomo Assandri, Susan McKinlay Michelangelo Morganti, Jennifer Morinay, Alejandro Corregidor Castro and Alberto Renzelli during translocation of lesser kestrel nestlings within the framework of LIFE FALKON www.lifefalkon.eu
Nesting tower for lesser kestrels built in Po Plain within the framework of LIFE FALKON www.lifefalkon.eu
Wingspan, herbal tea and medeleine
Social dinner of the 3rd Movecolab.it meeting
David Grémilet and Jacopo G. Cecere looking at the plumage of a lesser kestrel in Matera (@BénédicteMartin)
Bruno D'Amicis and Jacopo G. Cecere celebrating the good achivements (photos and data) of 2021 field season on storm petrels in Sardinia