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• Name: Menotti Passarella • Gender: Male • Birthday: Monday, October 21, 1957 (Age: 50) • Location: Gorino, Ferrara, Italy About Me I'm an avid birder and I love to share my knowledge with anyone and everyone. I'm a native of NE Italy and have led birding and nature-study trips throughout the Po Delta and the Lagoon of Venice for many individuals and groups. My 20+ years (10 of those years spent leading professionally) of intensive birding in the Po Delta has provided me with intimate knowledge of the places where birds gather, nest, feed and hide. I'm also knowledgeable of the area's fauna and flora and current environmental issues. I speak English, French, a little German and Spanish and of course Italian. I have acquired a great experience on the birds of NE Italy, discovering new breeding species (among wich: Cattle Egret and White Stork) and numerous rarities (some of which: River Warbler and Ring-billed Gull, both first for Italy; Iceland Gull and Sabine’s Gull, both third Italian records; Greater Sandplover). I wrote about 50 publications and I'm co-author of the Check-list of the Emilia-Romagna region and member of the C.O.I. (Italian Ornithological Commission – Bird Rarity Commitee). More than 370 bird species have been recorded in the Po Delta, that means the 75% of the whole Italian avifauna, and you would be are able to find easily there birds rarely observed elsewhere in Italy, such as Pygmy Cormorant, Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, Ferruginous Duck, Red-crested Pochard, Collared Pratincole, Slender-billed Gull, Whiskered Tern, Lesser-crested Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Red-footed Falcon, Lesser Grey Shrike and one of the few Flamingo breeding colony in the Mediterranean. I was among the first to practice the digiscoping in Italy, and I'm also the founder of the first Italian mailing list on digiscoping. I run my business organization Aster and I'm also the founder of Birding Italy, the whole Italy bird site in internet. Entries Written: 61 entries Comments Written: 2 comments Signup Date: December 7, 2005 Last Login: July 7, 2008 |
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