From 3pm on Wednesday 21st May, join BirdLife Malta at the Malta National Aquarium to celebrate Natura 2000 Day. We’re offering discounted entry to the aquarium where you can learn all about Malta’s seabirds, […]

My experiences with the dedicated, enthusiastic people I meet on Malta has switched me onto wild birds in a way I never expected. I now carry around binoculars and can bore […]

The first week of April a Birdlife Malta team went to Filfla to make the annual Yellow legged gull (Larus michahellis) census. Filfla is the more important site breeding site […]

During the spring and autumn transects we had spotted several species of seabirds which winter in the Mediterranean. Outside the breeding period, these birds move Southwards along the Atlantic Coast. […]

In the annual cycle, Yelkouan Shearwaters are ‘early birds’ – they start visiting the colonies in winter. That is why the team started colony work in February to monitor their […]

In April, the members of the team went to Filfla (a solitary limestone islet 4.5km South of mainland Malta) to monitor the Yellow Legged Gull’ s colony. Trail cameras were […]

During the breeding season of Storm Petrels, the Malta Seabird Project team carried out aerial radio-tracking flights. The transects were performed to pick up the signals from radio-tags previously attached […]

This autumn we completed the last transects of the boat based observations with many interesting sightings of different species. As it was in springtime, autumn is a migration season. The […]

In the middle of September, Head Researcher Ben Metzger and Assistant Researcher Antonio Vilches conducted some epic abseiling at Ta Cenc cliffs, in Gozo. It is the home of the […]