First Trip to Comino
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 […]
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 […]
Standing on the golden limestone cliffs that were once the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, I paused to appreciate these sheer vertical forms on the island of Gozo in Malta […]
BirdLife Malta has today reported 17 cases of young Scopoli’s Shearwaters stranded inland due to the effects of light pollution in the past two weeks alone. The organisation is appealing […]
We’re happy to report Jack-in-the-box has fledged – that is flown out to sea to start his adult life. Last time the team saw him he was outside the nest […]
Researchers from the EU LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project have this month successfully released four young shearwaters after they were found on land, disorientated by coastal light pollution. The Malta Seabird […]
The annual boat trips to Ta’ Cenc organised by BirdLife Malta took place last week. As the breeding season of our commonest breeding seabird is in full swing, members had […]
Our nest box chick has been named by HSBC Malta Foundation, our new sponsor for this project. Jack (as in Jack-in-the-box) is doing very well and we have a video […]
Last month we announced the first instance of a Yelkouan Shearwater using an artificial nest box in Malta, now we are happy to report an exciting update from inside the nest […]
My experience as a Leonardo Intern with BirdLife Malta, by Ilaria Murgia. It was with the autumn BirdLife Malta’s Raptor camp that I was introduced for the first time to […]
A new video released by BirdLife Malta today shows never-before-recorded behaviour of a pair of Yelkouan Shearwaters, known as Garnija in Maltese, on their nest high up in the sea-cliffs […]