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Despite a ban on spring hunting, many of Malta’s despicable hunters ignored the law and took to the countryside to gun down migratory birds as per usual last week. No doubt I’ll get the usual mails accusing me of ‘racism’ or ‘ignorance’ but I’ll take the flak if it means these ignorant people keep getting […]

 
Organisation: BirdLife Malta http://www.birdlifemalta.org
 
Who are we? BirdLife Malta is a partner of BirdLife International, a conservation organisation operating in over one hundred countries and territories worldwide. Founded in January 1962 as MOS (Malta Ornithological Society), it is the oldest environmental organisation in Malta. BirdLife was instrumental in the creation of the Ghadira and Is-Simar […]

A Photo-Gallery from this year’s spring migration in Malta
 

How Malta’s hunters prefer their Turtle Doves
 

A Bee-eater - left to die and found by school-children…
 

A Greenshank…mistaken by a Maltese hunter for a Turtle Dove perhaps…
 

One of Europe’s rarest raptors, Pallid Harrier, becomes even rarer…
 

Another protected raptor, a Marsh Harrier, that tried to […]