Welcome to the official site
of South Wielkopolska Group
of the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds
(PwG OTOP)

This site is devoted to birds from South Wielkopolska region. You can find here information about our activities connected with birds, their protection and habitat as well as environmental education. There is also a photo gallery.

The site is in Polish. However, some texts are translated into English and some of them have English summaries. If you want to find a particular bird species in our photo gallery please visit www.pwg.otop.org.pl/eng/fotoindex.php site (in preparation). There is an index of all the birds from our gallery in alphabetical order.

Texts in English

New article with English summary about Black Stork Ciconia nigra food in the South Wielkopolska region in Poland and in the Czech Republic

New articles in English about White Storks Ciconia ciconia in the South Wielkopolska region

Index of bird species from our photo gallery

Bird ringing in South Wielkopolska (Poland) in 2003-2005

Ringing and taking photos of little owls

Ringing of Barn Owls in 2005

Texts with English summaries

Dolata Paweł T. 2005.
Rook Corvus frugilegus in Ostrów Wielkopolski town and district (W Poland).
W: Jerzak L., Kavanagh B.P., Tryjanowski P. (red.). Ptaki krukowate Polski. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań, s. 671-679.

Dolata Paweł T., Ekiert Tomasz, Antczak Marcin, Rachel Marcin, Zduniak Piotr 2005.
Colour ringing of the Jackdaw Corvus monedula in Poland.
W: Jerzak L., Kavanagh B.P., Tryjanowski P. (red.). Ptaki krukowate Polski. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań, s. 313-318.

Dolata Paweł T., Kamiński Piotr, Winiecki Aleksander 2005.
Jackdaw Corvus monedula in Poland: a review.
W: Jerzak L., Kavanagh B.P., Tryjanowski P. (red.). Ptaki krukowate Polski. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań, s. 65-88.

Rachel Marcin 2002.
Untypical locality of the nestof theCollared Dove Streptopelia decaocto.
Przegląd Przyrodniczy XIII 1-2 (2002): 271.

Wilżak Tomasz 2005.
Occurrence of Jays Garrulus glandarius in managed forests of the Kalisz Plateau (central Poland).
W: Jerzak L., Kavanagh B.P., Tryjanowski P. (red.). Ptaki krukowate Polski. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań, s. 239-250.