The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) will develop a project that allows through the sound to know more about the seabirds from Madeira and.
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The harbour, Berlenga Grande Island
By Joana Andrade, Head of Marine Conservation, SPEA/BirdLife Portugal
When I first visited the Berlengas, a group of islands off the coast of Portugal, the state of the local biodiversity was alarming, to say the least. Foreign species that had been unintentionally introduced by humans – invasive species – such as the Hottentot Fig (
Carpobrotus edulis), Black Rats (
Rattus rattus) and European Rabbits (
Urban seagull census
The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) has called on the people of Portugal to heklp them to register seagulls in urban areas during May.
SPEA says that the information collected will contribute to the national census of the yellow-legged gull, whose main objective is to estimate the number of breeding pairs and the distribution of breeding areas.
“All observations are important, and will help us to assess the current status of this species, which, over the last few decades, has been expanding its nesting area, especially to urban areas”, explains the conservation technician Nuno Oliveira.