National survey in 1999

Colonies on the Mures River

Colonies on the Somes River (1999)

Colonies on the Somes River (2000)

Colonies on Somes River (2004)

Survey forms (only in Romanian and Hungarian)

National survey in 1999

We've sent 190 survey forms to different environmental and nature protection NGO's, natural history museums and ornithologists. We received reply from 17 people (8,9% of the total number of ditributed forms). The 27 colonies had 1596 used nest holes. Four people reported the lack of sand martin colonies in the Olt, Berettyo and Crasna Rivers, Cugir area and the surroundings of the Daia Română and Baz fish ponds. We welcome any further infromation regarding sand martin colonies!

Data collectors: Béres József, Chiş Timur, Costache Milca, Fazekas Lóránd, Florin Feneru, Glăvan Teodor, Hodor Călin, Ionescu Dan, Kecskés Attila, Kovács István, Melente Petru, Olariu Liviu, Rácz Zoltán, Tănăsescu Ion, Tompos Gábor, Tököly Jácint.

Map with the colonies

Colonies on the Mures River

The Mures River is the only one among Romanian rivers where the survey of the sand martin colonies was carried out during a longer time interval. The results were published in several scientific publications:

Antal, V., Szombath, Z. (1971) Recensămîntul coloniilor de Riparia riparia (L) şi Merops apiastre (L) de-a lungul Mureşului între Tîrgu Mureş şi Pecica (Judeţul Arad). Studii şi comunicări - Muzeul de Ştiinţele Naturii. Bacău. 301-308.
Kohl, Şt., Szombath, Z., Kónya, Şt., Gombos, A. (1975) Uferschwalbenkolonien (Riparia riparia L.) entlang des Mureş Flusses. Nymphaea, 3. Muzeul Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea. 191-198
Kohl, Şt., Szombath, Z., Kónya, I. (1983) Coloniile de Riparia riparia (L.) de-a lungul Mureşului (II.). Marisia, XI-XII. Studia Scientiarum Naturae. Muzeul Judeţean, Tîrgu Mureş, 183-185
Szombath, Z., Kohl, I., Kónya, I., Libus, A., Szombath, I., Sárkány-Kiss, E. (1993) A Maros romániai szakaszán fészkelő partifecske- (Riparia riparia) állomány helyzete 1991-ben. Aquila 100:193-199 (in Hungarian with English summary)
Szabó D. Zoltán (1998) Partifecske telepek a Maroson. Migrans 5.

Colonies on the Somes River (1999)

Szabó D. Zoltán: Partifecske (Riparia riparia) telepek a Szamos folyó romániai szakaszán (poster presented at the V. Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Ornithological Society - in Hungarian). Map with the colonies

Colonies on the Somes River (2000)

The lower section of the river was surveyed between 25-26 August, using a canoe, on a 74 km stretch, between Erdőszáda/Ardusat bridge and Szatmárnémeti/Satu Mare. The survey was assisted by Szodoray-Parádi Farkas.

The distribution of the colonies is illustrated on a map.

Colonies on the Somes River (2004)

A 230 km long section of the river was surveyed between 20 and 25 August. The survey was carried out again using a canoe, helped by Vinkler Tivadar. We found 62 colonies with 8031 nest used nest holes.

Map with the distribution of the colonies.

Survey forms

Download survey forms available in Romanian and Hungarian, in *.doc and*.pdf format:

Rip_felmeroiv.doc (68 kbyte)

Rip_felmeroiv.pdf (110 kbyte)

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