ARANZADI - Urdaibai Bird Center Urdaibai Bird Center Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve Goals Precedents at Urdaibai ARANZADI Urdaibai Ospreys (Basque Country) INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION NETWORKS BIRDS Birds' daily sightings: Marsh of Orueta Mini-guide: Birds of wetlands Urdaibai PDF Urdaibai Ospreys TOURISM-VISITS Information How to arrive Directions by public transport Hostel Alquiler de Sala de reuniones y conferencias EDUCATION Hegazti-eskola Urdaibai Visit programme for educational centers Training Educational project of the Osprey Garden Birds project Bird Center in the Press SUPPORT US Volunteers Make a donation Collaborating companies and entities Shop Alquiler de Sala de reuniones y conferencias NEWS NEWS PUBLICATIONS Bird Center in the press Urdaibai Reserve digital magazine WEBCAM CONTACT LOCATION Contact Directions by public transport ES EU EN ARANZADI The Aranzadi  Society of Sciences is a nonprofit scientific association, whose main goal is the scientific research on the natural and human environment and to spread the results obtained. Established in 1947, the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of its first members diversified over the years, and this led to a series of departments currently grouped into three main categories: Human and Social Sciences (Physical Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnography), Natural Sciences (Botany, Entomology, Herpetology, Mastozoology, Mycology and Ornithology) and Earth and Space Sciences (Astronomy, Speleology, Geodesy and Geology). Aranzadi was declared of Public Utility in 2001, when it was set up as a Research and Study Centre, becoming a reference point in the scientific world. For this reason was included in the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation as a sectorial centre. Ornithology at Aranzadi This department began to work in 1949, when the association created a Scientific Ringing Scheme that supplied its own rings with the refer "Aranzadi-San Sebastian". This Ringing Scheme was the first of its kind in the Iberian Peninsula, and led the first ringing campaigns carried out in the Basque Country and beyond its borders (Doñana, the Ebro Delta, etc). These campaigns evolved into preliminary studies on birds, which were a starting point for the creation of protected areas. The scheme recorded the very first data on transoceanic birds travelling from the Iberian Peninsula to far-away places such as Brazil, Surinam, Martinique and the Lesser Antilles. After those initial steps, the work was focused on deepening the knowledge of certain areas and species of special interest, or groups of species with a specific characteristic. Over the years, Aranzadi Ringing Scheme gradually improved its working methods to adopt a more scientific, serious and rigorous approach, and later started to use the new technologies as these has been developed. © copyright Urdaibai Bird Center . Todos los derechos reservados | We use cookies to improve our website and your experience when using it. Cookies used for the essential operation of the site have already been set. To find out more about the cookies we use and how to delete them, see our I accept cookies from this site. Agree