Waterbirds of Western Pomerania, Poland

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1 Waterbirds of Western Pomerania, Poland Dominik Marchowski 1,2, Jacek Kaliciuk 1, Dariusz Wysocki 1,3 1 West Pomeranian Nature Society, Szczecin, Poland 2 Ornithological Station, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Gdańsk, Poland 3 Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Szczecin University, Poland Coalition Clean Baltic Annual Conference 22 April, 2018, Zelenogradsk, Russia Fot. Marcin Sołowiej

2 West Pomeranian Nature Society [Zachodniopomorskie Towarzystwo Przyrodnicze] The society was founded in 1994 as West Pomeranian Ornithological Society by people interested in protecting birds and their habitats gathered around Ornithological Station Świdwie PAN Two groups: MAMAL GROUP, BIRD GROPUP 2006 change the name ZTP becouse of MAMAL GROUP MAMAL GROUP conservation and study of European Bison from West Pomeranian population, Wolfs and Lynx BIRD GROUP conservation and study of West Pomeranian birds, projects examples: * Conservation of Common Goldeneye, * Conservation of Barn Owl, * Conservation of Sand Mines Birds, * Active Protection and Monithoring of Krepa Marshes, * Active Protection of Black Tern in Lower Odra Valley, * Monitoring of Wintering and Migrating Waterbirds in Western Pomerania

3 Monitoring of Wintering and Migrating Waterbirds in Western Pomerania Baltic Sea - the most importanat site for wintering waterbirds in WP 2001/ /2018 regular monitoring of the area Three counts during the wintering season (Nov, Jan, Mar) Data are sending to Wetlan Inernational and Helcom

4 General information about waterbirds wintering in Western Pomerania Mean of all waterbirds: (range: ) Mean = ( ) Mean = ( ) Numbers of all waterbirds counted in Western Pomerania in seasons: 2001/ /2018. Mean, median, minimum and maximum values of counts during the season (November January March) Mean, median, min. and max. values from four seasons in the beginning of the study and four recent seasons.

5 Species group Functional groups species Index values Mean Trend in the Study area All ( ) Surface feeders all ( ) ? Surface feeders Trend in the whole Baltic or population Black-headed Gull ? Common Gull ? Herring Gull Great Black-backed Pelagic feeders all ( ) Pelagic feeders all ( ) Pelagic feeders Smew Goosander Great-crested Grebe Great Cormorant Benthic feeders all ( ) Benthic feeders all ( ) Benthic feeders Common Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup , Common Goldeneye Eurasian Coot Grazing feeders ( ) Grazing feeders Mute Swan / Whooper Swan / Bewick s Swan Been Goose , White-fronted Goose Graylag Goose Barnacle Goose Mallard

6 Spatial distribution and density Greater Scaup Aythya marila spatial distribution and density During two seasons nad Spatial modeling (Kernel dencity estimate) using three variables: longitude, latitude and numbers. Quadratic interpolation with fixed interval of bandwidth in CrimeStat IV software (Levine 2010). Fot. Dawid Kilon

7 Nearest future plans 1. Continuation of monitoring in the coming seasons 2. Widening the monitoring so as to cover a larger area and longer time. 3. Publication of results and analysis in the form of a book. 4. Educational campaign in schools and in the field. Fot. Miłosz Kowalewski

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9 THANK YOU! Fot. Marcin Sołowiej

10 References Aunins, A., Nilsson, L., Hario, M., Garthe, S., Dagys, M., Pedersen, I.K., et al., HELCOM Core Indicator Report. Retrieved from on 23 October 2016 HELCOM (2017). Abundance of waterbirds in the wintering season. HELCOM core indicator report, ISSN Levine N. (2010). CrimeStat: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (v 3.3). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX, and the National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. July.