Habitat management for Red–backed Shrike, Lanius collurio, conservation in farmland systems


https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2012.105
Vol. 82 No. 1-2 (2012)
Submitted: 3 October 2014
Accepted: 3 October 2014
Published: 30 September 2012
Red-backed Shrike, conservation, grasslands, shrubland, habitat management, Natura 2000.
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  • Fabio Casale
    rio@sisn.pagepress.org
    Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente, Settore Biodiversità e Aree protette, Milano, Italy.
  • Radames Bionda Società di Scienze Naturali del Verbano Cusio Ossola, Baceno (VB), Italy.
  • Riccardo Falco Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente, Settore Biodiversità e Aree protette, Milano, Italy.
  • Paolo Siccardi Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente, Settore Biodiversità e Aree protette, Milano, Italy.
  • Valentina Toninelli Provincia del Verbano Cusio Ossola, Settore Ambiente ed Energia, Verbania, Italy.
  • Diego Rubolini Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Biologia, Sezione Ecologia, Milano, Italy.
  • Mattia Brambilla Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente, Settore Biodiversità e Aree protette, Milano, Italy.
The Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola, North-Eastern Piedmont, carried out a LIFE-Nature project during the period 2003-2007. The project focused on a Natura 2000 site, located along the middle course of river Toce. One of the interventions was directed at the conservation of the breeding population of Lanius collurio through dedicated management of lowland hay meadows (with maintenance of unmown portions) and shrublands (with increasing habitat openness in overgrown shrublands). Those interventions resulted an increase in the local breeding population of the species from 9 to 25 pairs in 5 years.

Casale, F., Bionda, R., Falco, R., Siccardi, P., Toninelli, V., Rubolini, D., & Brambilla, M. (2012). Habitat management for Red–backed Shrike, Lanius collurio, conservation in farmland systems. Rivista Italiana Di Ornitologia, 82(1-2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2012.105

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