HORNEMANNI MIDDLE EUROPEAN CLUB

A specialist club dedicated to European wildlife has been set up by our Italian friends. Below is the introduction we received from its organising committee.

Introduction to the Hornemanni Middle European Club:

Dear fellow breeders,

We are a group of breeders from north-eastern Italy. A few days ago, we founded a club for the study of birds in the northern hemisphere called the HORNEMANNI MIDDLE EUROPEAN CLUB.

The objectives we aim to pursue are as follows:

- To carry out studies aimed at preserving the purity of bird species and subspecies in the Northern Hemisphere in their ancestral form.

- To publish and distribute to club members a magazine illustrating and defining the characteristics of species and subspecies, as well as the breeding techniques used.

- To form working groups to clarify and define the exact nature of the phenotypic mutations that have emerged in recent decades in numerous species of the Northern Hemisphere.

- To document the results obtained.

- To draw up and propose standards and technical specifications, where necessary, to the governing bodies of the F.O.I.

- To attend, during each exhibition season, three

international exhibitions as well as one or more exhibitions abroad, where we hope to attract many new members to our prestigious and highly experienced breeders’ club.

- Organise a two-day exhibition in which members undertake to present birds, highlighting the species and subspecies in order to define their characteristics. The aim is to avoid situations of great confusion, such as that encountered with the red-backed bunting (Carduelis flammea).

Our work will be of a purely technical nature and will be published by the Club in a quarterly journal, which will also report on the numbers and types of birds reared by members. This approach should facilitate contact and exchanges.

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