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Marques, D.

Die Ausbildung als wichtiges Standbein der Ala.

2009

106

129–138

Key words
(von 1994 bis 2006 vergeben)

Ala, Geschichte, Jugendgruppe, Jugendarbeit, Ausbildung, Kurse, Lehrgang wissenschaftliche Ornithologie

Schlagwort_Vogelart
(wissenschaftlich)

Streptopelia decaocto, Turdus pilaris, Larus ridibundus

Schlagwort_Vogelart
(deutsch)

Türkentaube, Wacholderdrossel, Lachmöwe

Schweiz, Zürich, Österreich, Vorarlberg

deutsch

Abhandlung

Education as a pillar of the Ala, Swiss Society for the Study and Conservation of Birds. – In the hundred-year history of the Ala, education and training of its members played an important role. Training is provided by the journal «Der Ornithologische Beobachter», meetings and scientific conferences and a varied excursion programme concentrating on bird-watching hotspots in both Switzerland and the neighbouring countries. The first courses were organised by Ala members as early as in 1920. Since 1988, courses have been organised on an annual basis, covering a wide variety of topics from identification and biology of birds and other organisms to methods in field ornithology and conservation. Since 2000, the Ala has organised three comprehensive courses in scientific ornithology for high school and university students as well as interested amateurs. Although training of young ornithologists is not among the main tasks of the Ala, the association supported the initiative to found a youth group in 1960. The «Jugendgruppe der Ala» conducted intensive research activities during 1960–1964 with a main focus on breeding and wintering bird censuses around Zurich and in the Rhine delta (Vorarlberg) and additional projects on breeding Eurasian Collared Doves Streptopelia decaocto and Fieldfares Turdus pilaris as well as radar-assisted research on bird migration. In the seventies, a new «Ala-Jugendgruppe» was founded that initially focused on research activities with a project on wintering Common Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus and several projects on breeding birds in various areas. Towards the nineties, the focus shifted from a mainly research-based activity to the formation and promotion of young naturalists and ended in the new foundation in 1993 of the youth group as «Jugendgruppe Natrix», independent from the Ala. In parallel to these Zurich-based groups, the youth group of the «Berner Ala», founded as a section of the Ala, has been active since the sixties.