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 […]
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 […]
By Nicola Cox Last month I was lucky enough to visit Comino for the first time since arriving in Malta to help with the Malta Seabird Project. Comino is a […]