"Birds without Borders" (from May 6 to November 11, 2000)

Within the framework of the project "Fribourg in Europe" organized by the University for the 25th anniversary of Europe Day and at the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the scientific tagging of birds in Europe, the Fribourg Natural History Museum is preparing for the year 2000 a temporary, bilingual, travelling exhibit on bird migrations.

This exhibit will present the history of bird tagging with rings; the different techniques used for tagging birds; the possible roles that bird tagging will play in the study of their migrations (in following the fluctuations of their populations and of their survival; in determining changes in their migratory behaviors; in the study of their daily and seasonal routines during migration; and in determining if they are faithful to their breeding places, to their nesting areas and to their wintering sites); the migration of birds (orientation, strategies, etc.) and the new techniques used to study bird migrations.