We did it! Malta’s first marine SPAs announced
Malta now has its first eight marine Special Protection Areas (SPAs), giving our seabirds protection also out at sea. This is a great achievement for the LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project and […]
Malta now has its first eight marine Special Protection Areas (SPAs), giving our seabirds protection also out at sea. This is a great achievement for the LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project and […]
A few months ago our project team obtained some fascinating results of GPS tagging showing the long journeys Yelkouan Shearwater females make before laying their egg. Yelkouan Shearwaters are early […]
In early February, Yelkouan Shearwaters come to land and couples meet inside their nests to mate. Afterwards, they fly back out to sea where females spend two or three weeks […]
The LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project has been carrying out research for the last 4 years to find the areas at sea that are most important for Malta’s breeding seabirds – […]
Officers from the LIFE Nature Unit of the European Commission – technical desk officer Mr Simon Goss, and financial desk officer Ms Merle Lehtveer and external monitor Ms Chiara Caccamo […]
by Nicola Cox During the past season, researchers of the Life Malta Seabird Project spent several nights on Filfla, a solitary limestone islet about 4.5 km off the southern coast […]
by Nicola Cox Researchers from the Life+ Malta Seabird Project have been out recently surveying the Scopoli’s Shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) (Ċiefa) in the south of Malta. Scopoli’s Shearwaters, previously known […]
By Nicola Cox Once more, Birdlife Malta organised its annual Shearwater boat trips to see the Scopoli’s Shearwater (Ċiefa) (Calonectris diomedea) colony just off the Ta’ Cenc cliffs, Gozo. With […]
In summer, the beauty of Comino attracts hundreds of visitors a day, but how many of them know that Comino is designated as an Important Bird Area? The cliffs of […]
By Nicola Cox As I stood in the carpark overlooking Wied iz-Zurrieq, I could make out Filfla on the horizon, shrouded in a sunny afternoon haze. It was only as […]