{"id":27135,"date":"2025-01-12T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/balestruccio-project-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:10:43","slug":"balestruccio-project-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/balestruccio-project-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Balestruccio Project Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27135\" class=\"elementor elementor-27135 elementor-20177\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a270976 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6a270976\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-614024be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"614024be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 40\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Update on Ficedula&#8217;s project to support this species<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Balestruccio Project Continues<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Another 20 new cases being monitored for colony conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 40\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In 2024, Ficedula\u2019s \u201cConservation of Balestruccio Colonies\u201d project continued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 41\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Specifically, 20 cases (16 of which were new) were monitored, including: ten construction sites, five conflict situations, and five other cases\/consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Among the construction sites, one project certainly worth noting is a major real estate development near the center of Stabio, which involved the demolition of numerous existing buildings, some of which housed (inventoried) Balestruccio nests.<\/p>\n<p>A new colony of the Eurasian tree sparrow has been recorded in Personico. The ongoing updating of the inventory is important for filling gaps in our knowledge of the species\u2019 distribution and for ensuring the most comprehensive protection possible of all nesting sites. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on Ficedula&#8217;s project to support this species The Balestruccio Project Continues Another 20 new cases being monitored for colony conservation In 2024, Ficedula\u2019s \u201cConservation of Balestruccio Colonies\u201d project continued. Specifically, 20 cases (16 of which were new) were monitored, including: ten construction sites, five conflict situations, and five other cases\/consultations. Among the construction sites, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[191,190,189,193,192],"class_list":["post-27135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-birds-of-italian-speaking-switzerland","tag-ficedula","tag-news","tag-switzerland","tag-ticino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27135"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27210,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135\/revisions\/27210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ficedula.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}