Mammal Survey Eastern Rhodopes Bulgaria - De Zoogdiervereniging

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Teodora Ivanova (left) and Svetlana Hristova.tion gave us the financial support to provide our Bulgarian counterparts with live traps, bat detectors,recording equipment and mist nets. These are essential materials to set up a professional way ofsurveying mammal species. The Bulgarian investigators were very grateful for this gift.We wish to thank all the people who contributed to the project’s success and express our hope thatour visit to the Eastern Rhodope Mountains will contribute to a better knowledge of mammals in theregion and to the protection of this unique nature area.Members of the Veldwerkgroep VWGVereniging voor Zoogdierkunde en Zoogdierbescherming VZZArnhem, the Netherlands, 2003.10 Mammal Survey Eastern Rhodope Bulgaria
1. INTRODUCTIONOn 17—20 July, 2002, a workshop was organised by the VZZ in the Eastern Rhodopes in the southernpart of Bulgaria. During this workshop, a great number of mammals was observed and data was collectedregarding mammals and species of other groups of animals. A list of participants forms AppendixA. The invitation for the workshop that was sent to the Dutch participants a couple of monthsbefore the workshop took place is included in Appendix B.The workshop focused on bats, mice and other small mammals. This report contains a description ofthe results of these activities. First, in Chapter 2 a description is given of the Eastern Rhodopes areain which the workshop took place. Chapter 3 contains a report of the activities concerning bats. InChapter 4 the results of the survey on mice are described. To collect this information, mice werecaught in so-called live traps and released after being subjected to a thorough investigation. In chapter5 a summary is given of the mammal-species that were found in various groups of owl pelletscollected near deserted buildings in the Eastern Rhodopes area. A description of all other mammalspecies observed during the workshop is given in Chapter 6, followed by a description of all nonmammalspecies in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8 the process of the establishment of a National Park in theEastern Rhodopes, in the period until the end of 2002, is described. This places the workshop in abigger context. Some concrete results of the workshop are published in Chapter 9, as well as a descriptionof the steps that were taken after the workshop took place.Every year VZZ uses standard forms on which data of recorded species is written down. These formshave proven their usefulness over the years. However, one should remain attentive to register data ina disciplined and regular manner. Unfortunately, mishaps do occur — wrong location numbers, illegiblehandwriting, et cetera. Also, some data was not registered at all! For future workshops, it deservesrecommendation to pay even more attention to a correct registration of data. After every field trip,the forms should be filled in and checked. This report only contains a description of the data that wasregistered in a correct way.The river Arda.Mammal Survey Eastern Rhodope Bulgaria 11
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