Birds that migrate at night, under normal conditions, are rarely seen or heard, but on the other hand, they are much more numerous than those that do so during the day. For many years now, attempts have been made to quantify this migratory flow using techniques such as the Moonwatch, which consisted of observing the lunar disk […]
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The salt of life. Trinitat salt lakes’ stories.
In this edition of the Delta Birding Festival we are pleased to announce the premiere of the documentary ‘La sal de la Vida’, recorded by the well-known biologist and broadcaster, Jaume Sañé. Sañé highlights this necessary symbiosis between the interests of any extractive activity and the need to protect an area of such high ecological […]
Visting Vilacoto
In the activity “Visting Vilacoto“, Sergi Sales from the Fundació Plegadis will guide us through the Vilacoto area, which is located next to the Encanyissada lagoon, in the municipality of San Carles de la Rápita. This area, which can rarely be visited, is home to one of the best delta populations of Iberian Reed Bunting […]
Audouin’s gull and the axis Z conquest
The Audouin’s Gull (Larus audouinii) is an endemic species to the Mediterranean and listed as ‘vulnerable’ in the red book of birds of Spain. Traditionally nests on rocky islands and islets that provide protection against land predators. Ricard Gutiérrez, biologist of the Marine Fauna Rescue of the Generalitat de Catalunya, will talk about, in his conference at […]
Micro-Reserves of Butterflies in Catalonia
In Catalonia for 28 years now, a systematic monitoring of diurnal butterfly populations has been carried out. In all these years, more than 180 species have been but around fifty of them have been found to have a negative or a very negative trend. To reverse this situation, the people of Paisatges Vius have started […]
Fifty million years of passerine evolution
Per Alström is professor and researcher at the Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University and at the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research in ornithology is focused on the Systematics of Passerines through DNA analysis, vocalizations plus the examination of morphology that, in combination with ecological, distribution […]