Top stories from A Rocha Portugal

Love People 1 September 2011
Would you like to meet the Portugal Team? Do you enjoy birdwatching with friends? If so, why not sign up for one of the special birdwatching weeks being planned by the Portugal team for October... (read more)

Come and see the ringing at Cruzinha 15 June 2011
Bird-ringing takes place every Thursday morning at Cruzinha. Great Tit (Parus major), House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) and Blackbird (Turdus merula) are regularly caught but sometimes unusual bird... (read more)

An inordinate fondness for beetles 6 June 2011
After 18 years A Rocha Portugal is back exploring beetles! Since March of this year 130 species from 22 families have been identified by EVS volunteer Reda Garmute. Several methods of capture are b... (read more)

Kentish Plover 28 March 2011
A Rocha Portugal continued its long-term monitoring of the Ria de Alvor estuary during the 2010 breeding season. In addition to regular wader counts, volunteers at Cruzinha carried out more det... (read more)

Moth Project in Algarve 4 March 2011
Meet the moths! “Moths are all brown, they hide in your cupboard during daytime and they perform a mysterious moon dance every first of July. Moths never eat, they’re attracted by light because th... (read more)

European Moth Night 1 October 2010
This September A Rocha Portugal once again joined in with the annual European Moth Nights! The trapping was undertaken in Cruzinha’s garden over the course of the weekend of the 10th September and ... (read more)

Mollusc monitoring project 1 October 2010
A current project monitoring molluscs within the Alvor Estuary is coming to an end. EVS volunteer Aleksandra Cisek has been undertaking mollusc sampling at different locations within the estuary o... (read more)

A rare visitor to Cruzinha 6 May 2010
Visitors to our open morning last Thursday were treated to the sight of our fourth Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) in over 20 years of ringing.  On 29 April 2010 Marcial and his ringing team... (read more)

It’s not too late - join A Rocha studying Storm Petrels in the Algarve 5 May 2010
Each May and June we welcome volunteers of all ages to join us in this exciting and topical research project. Small teams of 4-8 volunteers stay for 10 days each, working alongside scientists from... (read more)

Good news for the Ria de Alvor, Portugal 1 March 2009
A Rocha Portugal has again been successful in court. In 2007 A Rocha began legal proceedings to protect Quinta da Rocha (the headland on which Cruzinha, our field study centre, is located). Part o... (read more)

Studying Stormies in Portugal - would you like to help? 1 March 2009
A Rocha Portugal has been studying the European Storm-petrel Hydrobates pelagicus for 20 years. Each May and June they welcome volunteers of all ages, from around the world, to take part in this e... (read more)

Another good Storm-petrel season 1 July 2008
A Rocha Portugal has been studying the European Storm-petrel Hydrobates pelagicus since 1990, catching the birds as they move northwards along the Algarve coast. This year, with the help of some w... (read more)

Two Wood Warblers caught in Portugal 1 June 2008
Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix winter in equatorial Africa, mainly in humid evergreen forests and moist wooded savanna. We know that it makes much longer unbroken flights than the other Ph... (read more)