Resources

Italian Apennines (Abruzzo) Gran Sasso Massif - author Eliseo Strinella

© gallery web snowfinch.eu

Italian Alps at the Gavia Pass

© author Davide Scridel

Erratic movements of the Snowfinch through the Alps

Some reports [enter]

Winter Snowfinch, mountain massif of the Gran Sasso, Italy

© author Eliseo Strinella

Scientific publications by members of the European Snowfinch Group

(Latest publications of the two-year period 2019-2021)

List of jobs for quick reference [enter]

Colored ring Snowfinch, mountain massif of the Gran Sasso, Italy

© author Eliseo Strinella

List of Montifringilla nivalis colored ring projects in Europe

An important goal of the entire European Snowfinch Group is to ensure that color combinations do not overlap.

With the collaboration European color-ring Birding: http://www.cr-birding.org

Agreed coordinators for all species: http://www.cr-birding.org

List of projects for quick reference [enter]

Collection Montifrigilla nivalis study-skin, American Museum of Natural History (New York City)

© author Maria del Mar Delgado

List zoological collection Montifrigilla nivalis (study-skin and mounted)

Museums collection Snow Finch Montifringilla nivalis n. 

(© use data collections)

The list of collections is constantly updated

• Museum Austria

• Museum France

• Museum Germany

• Museum Italy

• Museum Norway

• Museum Russia

• Museum Switzerland

• Museum United Kingdom

Nest box Snowfinch, mountain massif of the Gran Sasso, Italy

© author Maurizio Passacantando

Conservation

The use of nest boxes

The White-Winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis is a high-altitude specialist bird which can be easily seen in close proximity of mountain huts, malga (upland seasonally-occupied farm) and ski resorts.

It is considered an excellent climate change indicator and predicted to undergo dramatic range contractions in the next decades due to climate change.

This nest-box provides new nesting opportunities for this threatened species as well as allowing to better investigate the effects of climate change on the reproductive biology of this species.

For more info and queries please contact, the coordinator of the group, the geographical area covered: contact

Ringing Snowfinch, mountain massif of the Gran Sasso, Italy

© author Adriano De Faveri

Protocols

Standardized field activities

The proposal and manual "The European Snowfinch project - Demography and Population's Connectivity of the European Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis nivalis" (still a work in progress!) will cover several aspects regarding snowfinch researches, spanning from the research network and the ongoing projects, to data usage and sharing, to the field protocols.

The latter will include population surveys, use of nest boxes, handling/ageing/sexing of individuals, ecological studies.

For more info and queries please contact, the coordinator of the group, the geographical area covered: contact

Field workers, Central Cantabrian Mountains "Las Ubiñas-La Mesa and Babia-Luna Natural Parks"

© author Lidia Epova

Collaborations

Monitoring Snow Finch

Associations, ornithological groups, researchers or research institutes can collaborate, join the research and the monitoring activities or send observations and pictures by contacting the coordinator of the relevant geographical area.

For more info and queries please contact, the coordinator of the group, the geographical area covered: contact