Il ritorno dell’occhione (Burhinus oedicnemus) nel medio corso del fiume Piave

In the Piave River the Stone-curlew was considered extinct as breeder by the beginning of XX century. In recent years the species was detected again in Treviso province and the number of recorded breeding pairs showed a clearly positive trend. The breeding population estimated by means of binomial counts consisted of > 60 individuals in 2014. The available results underline the importance of the Piave River for the conservation of the species in the region and for understanding the process of re-colonization of the area.