Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zum Schutz der Eulen
Jochen Wiesner (Chairman)
The German Association for the Protection of owls ( owls AG ) is a nationwide conservation organization that deals with study and conservation of owls. The working group of owls is a registered charity. It sees itself as an association of German Owls professionals. In addition to individuals, groups, clubs, associations and institutions can be a member.
The association operates nature and species protection by gathering knowledge and experience to biology and to protect the owls, evaluated and passed on. The AG takes owls in the Federal Committee on true Ornithology and Birds of Conservation Federation Germany (NABU ) the tasks of the Federal Working Group (BAG ) owl protection. For each occurring in Germany owl there is a kind of specialists and for each state a state representative. Each year a meeting at different locations, mostly in Germany, in cooperation with local associations or working groups will be organized.
History
In December 1974 in Soest ( North Rhine -Westphalia ) is a little owl -AG was established as a working group of the Westphalian Ornithological Society and the Society Rhenish ornithologists of about 30 people present. In March 1975, the barn owl AG of the two ornithological societies was founded in Alsdorf. In 1976, both working groups still held separate from meetings. The end of 1976 they were the protection of endangered owls, owls abbreviated AG, incorporated as a joint venture.
In a first position paper was called 1976: The goal of the AG is to protect the owls on a scientific basis. The AG owls joined the National Association of NRW ( DBV), now renamed the German Confederation for bird protection for NABU on. In 1978 the publication of the draft prepared by the AG with standard methods, standards for the collection of Steinkäuzen. In 1979, the expansion of the study area to the entire former Federal Republic of Germany took place. The AG owls joined, with support of the then President DBV Claus King, the Federation of the DBV. In 1981, the first national conference was conducted biology and protection of Little Owl and Barn Owl with 150 participants at the University of Giessen. In the second nationwide Owl meeting in 1985 with 190 participants, only five species of owls were treated in lectures now.
From 1985 annual meetings of the AG found owls instead, only in 1988 was without a meeting. In 1986 a nationwide boreal owl and pygmy meeting in water Mitwitz. In the same year, detailed investigations from 1974 to 1984 the habitat requirements of little owl in Germany were published. In Homburg an der Saar, the first all-German Owl meeting was in 1990.
From 1990, there was a close cooperation with the Association for the reintroduction of the eagle owl ( AzWU ). Starting in 1994, the AG owls took over the tasks of the Federal Working Group (BAG ) Owls protection in Federal Committee ( BFA) ornithology and bird conservation for NABU. In 1994, the AG was co-organizer of the 3rd international symposium owl population ecology of birds of prey and owls types of monitoring birds of prey and owls in Europe Friedrich Brunn. The working group held its annual meeting by owls at the symposium. In 1995, the AG was co-organizer of the conference boreal owl owls and pygmy in Germany in Bad Blankenburg. As of 2000, the Board has set up a website with the address www.ageulen.de.
In 2000, the first International Conference of the AG Owls in resin followed, with speakers and participants from all over Europe. This was around the 2nd European Owl Symposium. At the meeting in St. Andrew Berg came 220 participants. The conference languages were English and German. There were 44 lectures and 24 posters. In addition to 30 contributions from Germany, there were those from Finland (6 ), Switzerland (6 ), Belarus ( 4), Czech Republic / Slovakia (4) United Kingdom ( 3 ), the Netherlands (3 ), Denmark ( 2 ), Italy ( 2) Poland (2 ), Belgium ( 1) Bulgaria (1 ) France (1 ) Norway (1) and Slovenia ( 1). As of 2002, the AG adopted every four years with the monitoring birds of prey and owls in Europe by the International Symposium population ecology of birds of prey and owls. 2003 AG resulted in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, by the 3rd European Symposium Owl ecology and conservation of European owls in Inatura. At this meeting in particular was attended by several Austrian and Swiss.
2004, the AG was co-organizer of the symposium Steinkauzschutz owls in North Rhine -Westphalia in the Agricultural Centre, home Riswick in Kleve. 2005, the owl was the participation of the AG Bird of the Year. The AG was co-organizer of the International Uhu meeting in Aschaffenburg. In 2008, the AG was co-organizer of the World Owl Conference in Groningen. During this World Conference Owls Owls also took place the annual meeting of the AG in an afternoon. In October 2008, a registered association eV with the changed name of the German Association for the Protection of the owls of the Working Group - AG owls. 2011 was the AG owls again co-organizer of the Little Owl -session threats and conservation of little owl in Germany in Artenschutzzentrum Metelen.
Owl panorama
In 1975 came the first time an information of AG Owls in DIN A 5 format out. From the info was from the No. 37, the newsletter of the AG in DIN A 5 format. This circular letter from the AG owls was 1993 journal owls panorama in DIN A4 format with the first number 39 appears per year since 2007 an issue.
In owls panorama original papers on owls and owl research and protection, reviews of literature about owls, owls news topics and information on the AG owls are published. Articles about the lectures of the annual meetings may be published in each of the following owls panorama since 2004. Conference contributions of individual meetings were also published in special issues of journals such as The birdlife and bird and the environment.
Members of the AG owls
Since the 1990s almost all German Owls Professionals Member of the AG are owls. Additional members in all neighboring countries. Individual members also come from other European countries, especially from Eastern Europe, and the USA. About 20 % of the members are other working groups or groups other conservation organizations, in particular the NABU, and also authorities. The number of members rose in three phases strongly. The first major increase in membership, there was the end of the 1970s, when the work area was extended to the whole of Germany, then the mid- 1980s, when the substantive expansion was decided on all species of owl, and then after the German reunification the beginning of the 1990s.