Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zum Schutz der Eulen

 

Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zum Schutz der Eulen (AG Eulen), nke a sụgharịrị German Association for the Protection of Owls (Owls Working Group), bụ ọgbakọ nchekwa mba na-ahụ maka ọmụmụ na nchekwa nke ikwiikwii. Otu Owls Working Group (OWG) bụ ọgbakọ anaghị akwụ ụgwọ edebanye aha. Ọ na-ahụ onwe ya dị ka otu ndị ọkachamara ikwiikwii na-asụ German. Na mgbakwunye na ndị mmadụ n'otu n'otu, otu bụ ghere oghe maka otu, klọb, mkpakọrịta na ụlọ ọrụ.

Ụdị na ọrụ nchebe ụdị nke OWG dabeere na nchịkọta, nyocha na mgbasa ozi nke ihe ọmụma na ahụmahụ gbasara bayoloji na nchebe nke ikwiikwii. Ebe ọ bụ na 1994, OWG arụwo ọrụ nke Federal Working Group (BAG) maka Nchebe Owl na Kọmitii Federal maka Ornithology na Nchekwa Nnụnụ nke German Association for Nature Conservation (NABU). Maka ụdị ikwiikwii ọ bụla na-eme na Germany nwere ọkachamara n'ụdị na maka steeti gọọmenti etiti ọ bụla nwere onye nnọchiteanya steeti. Kwa afọ, OWG na-ahazi nzukọ n'ebe dị iche iche, ọkachasị na Germany, na mmekorita ya na ndị otu ma ọ bụ otu mpaghara..

Na December 1974, ihe dị ka mmadụ 30 zutere na Soest iji guzobe otu obere ọrụ ikwiikwii n'okpuru nkwado nke Westphalian Ornithological Society na Society of Rhineland Ornithologists. Na Machị 1975, e hiwere Barn Owl Working Group nke ọha mmadụ abụọ ornithological na Alsdorf. N'afọ 1976, òtù abụọ ahụ na-arụ ọrụ ka na-enwe nzukọ dị iche iche. N'ọgwụgwụ 1976, ndị otu abụọ na-arụ ọrụ jikọtara ọnụ iji guzobe Òtù Na-arụ ọrụ maka Nchebe nke Owls dị ize ndụ, nke a na-akpọkarị dị ka Owls Working Group.

HiAs from 1985, the OWG has held annual meetings, with the sole exception of 1988. In 1986, Tengmalm's owl and pygmy owl were the subjects of a national conference that took place in Mitwitz castle. In the same year, the OWG published the results of detailed investigations conducted from 1974 to 1984 into the habitat requirements of the little owl in Germany. The first conference of owl experts from the whole of re-united Germany was held in Homburg an der Saar in 1990. From 1990 onwards, there was a close cooperation with the Association for the Reintroduction of the Eagle Owl (AzWU). As from 1994, the OWG took over the activities of the National Working Group (BAG) for Owl Protection in the Federal Committee (BFA) for Ornithology and Bird Conservation of the NABU. In 1995, the OWG was co-organizer of the conference held in Bad Blankenburg on Tengmalm's owl and pygmy owl in Germany. Since 2000, the OWG has maintained a website with the address www.ageulen.de.

In 2000, the OWG's first international conference took place in St. Andreasberg in the Harz district, with speakers and participants from all over Europe. This, the 2nd European Owl Symposium, attracted 220 owl experts. The conference languages were English and German. There were 44 lectures and 24 posters. Besides 30 contributions from Germany, there were some from Finland (6), Switzerland (6), Belarus (4), the Czech Republic/Slovakia (4), the United Kingdom (3), the Netherlands (3), Denmark (2), Italy (2) Poland (2), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), France (1), Norway (1) and Slovenia (1). In 2003, the OWG hosted the third European Symposium on The Ecology and Conservation of European Owls at the Inatura Centre in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg. This meeting attracted a particularly large number of Austrian and Swiss ornithologists.

The Owls Working Group brought out its first Info  in DIN A5 format in 1975. After issue No. 37, this Info became the group's newsletter in DIN A5 format. This OWG newsletter was transformed in 1993 into the journal Eulen-Rundblick in DIN A4 format with its first issue bearing the number 39. Since 2007, one issue has been published every year.

Since the 1990s, almost all German owl experts have been members of the OWG. The group also has members in all neighbouring countries. There are individual members in other European countries, especially in Eastern Europe and the United States. About 20% of the members are other working groups or groups active in other conservation organisations, in particular the NABU, or public authorities. The number of members rose strongly in three phases. The first major increase in membership took place at the end of the 1970s, when the group's study area was extended to the entire Federal Republic of Germany, then the mid-1980s, when it was decided to expand the OWG's work to cover all species of owl, and then at the beginning of the 1990s, after German reunification.

• Klaus-Michael Exo, Ortwin Schwerdtfeger: 25 Jahre AG Eulen: Rückblick und Ausblick. Eulen-Rundblick 2002, 50:7-10.
• Jochen Wiesner: Die Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zum Schutz der Eulen e. V. Der Falke 2014/61, Sonderheft Eulen in Deutschland, S. 10–11.