Birding News in Andalucia

The first Saturday in September each year is International Vulture Awareness Day. Vultures are an ecologically vital group of birds that face a range of threats in many areas that they occur. Populations of many species are under pressure and some species are facing extinction. The International Vulture Awareness Day has grown from Vulture Awareness Days run by the Birds of Prey Programme of the Endangered Wildlife Trust in South Africa and the Hawk Conservancy Trust in England, who decided to work together and expand the initiative into an international event. It is now recognised that a co-ordinated international day will publicise the conservation of vultures to a wider audience and highlight the important work being carried out by the world’s vulture conservationists. On the first Saturday in September, the aim is for each participating organisation to carry out their own activities that highlight vulture conservation and awareness. This website provides a central place f...

Water for Life Project. Latest news on our support for this project and we will have an update soon. The project aims primarily to provide breeding habitat for amphibians, species under threat of extinction in the area, but of course has benefits for not only birds and larger fauna, but also general aquatic life including plants. Report received July 2019 For the temporary ponds, to avoid creating artificial water input, we choose areas where waterlogging occurs naturally, either by remaining water from fountains or drinking troughs or by runoff water. Once we have selected the area, we just do a small excavation, we put an impermeable material (EPDM) and cover it with stones that will be attached by cement. Once we have a solid grounding, we fill every gap with soil so that over time, the aquatic plants can colonize it. This way, we get a water point as natural as possible. We have scheduled the construction of two water points, and the upgrade of another two, with the m...