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 […]
Tracking Scopoli’s Shearwaters’ pre-laying journeys
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 […]
Exodus – where do Maltese Yelkouans go before egg laying?
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 […]
Eight Marine Important Bird Areas for Maltese seabirds confirmed by BirdLife International following results from LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project
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 – […]
A visit from the European Commission to the LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project
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 […]
Malta’s most secretive seabird.
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 […]
Scopoli’s Shearwaters at Hal Far
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 […]
Shearwater Spectacle
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 […]
Don’t give rats a free lunch
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 […]
A trip to Filfla
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 […]
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