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Migration ecology of raptors in the Mediterranean

Acknowledgements

First of all I would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Giuseppe Bogliani. Second I thank all my colleagues
from MEDRAPTORS, Nicolantonio Agostini, Ugo Mellone, Peppe Lucia and Gianpasquale Chiatante.
I thank: Patrizia Bonelli and Giuseppe Panuccio for support, Simona Tarantino for patience and for cover
graphic, Danilo Palmisano for layout, Keith Bildstein from Hawkmountain Sanctuary and prof. Colin
Pennycuick for suggestions. All the other doctoral students and the staff at the University of Pavia: Rocco
Tiberti, Eva Carpinelli, Cristian Pasquaretta, Francesca Della Rocca, Elisa Cardarelli, Adriana Bellani,
Francesca Pella, Alice Brambilla, Luca Nelli, Anna Vidus and the professors Paolo Galeotti, Mauro Fasola
and Alberto Meriggi. I also thank the two students that I assisted for their M.Sc. thesis: Lisa Muner and
Diego Tarini.
A lot of people helped me in the fieldwork sessions during the past three years (not all the results are
showed in this dissertation). I thank for the help at the islands of Crete and Antikhitira: the prof. Stavros
Xirouchakis and Giorgos Andreou at the University of Crete, Christos Barboutis (Antikythira Bird
Observatory), Angelos Evangelidis and Teodoros Kominos (Hellenic Ornithological Society). For the
work on raptor migration in Italy I thank Marco Gustin, Giovanni Malara and Claudio Celada of LIPU
(Bird Life Italy), Guido Premuda, Martina Zambon, Antonino Morabito, Massimo Campora, Guido
Cattaneo, Mauro Darpin and Piero Miceli. For the monitoring of wintering raptors in Sicily I thank
LIPU of Alcamo and Gela, the Natural Reserve of Gela Lake (Biviere), Antonino Provenza, Paolo Amato,
Emilio Giudice, Peppe Campo, Antonino Duchi and Renzo Ientile. I thank all the people who helped
me in Turkey: Olivier Dochy, Eymen Samsa, Kerem Boyla, Ümit Yardım and Alessio Rivola. I’m grateful
to Antonio-Román Muñoz Gallego and Alejandro Onrubia from Fundación Migres for their valuable
collaboration. I wish to thank also the wildlife recovery centres of Rome (LIPU) and Vanzago. I thank
Chris du Feu from EURING and all the staff of Batumi Raptor Count: Wouter Vansteelant, Brecht
Verhelst, Johannes Jansen and Jasper Wehrmann. Finally I would like to thank my Sifu Michele Angelo
Riolo for everything he taught me in these years.

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