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web - Jul 2, 2008 10:39 - 0 Comments

Observação de Aves na Madeira

We recently pushed a translation in portuguese of our Madeira Tours website. This translated website will run under the name Observação de Aves na Madeira, featuring all the birdwatching tours and some sea trips.

We hope this will help sales towards the Portuguese speaking market. Below are the featured tours/trips:

Observação de Aves

Passeios de Barco

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studies - Apr 29, 2008 20:00 - 3 Comments

Hot winds from Africa

Birdwatching in Madeira can sometimes be very unpredictable. The endemic birds in Madeira are confined to small area and habitats. Though when it comes to vagrants we never know what we are going to get.

When hot winds blow from Africa, we usually get some accidental vagrants. Now, if this winds coincide with bird migration we reached optimum birdwatching conditions. This happened again this weekend and Madeira has been inundated it thousands of migratory birds.

Keep in mind, that Madeira is 600 km off Africa’s coast and ideal conditions can only happen twice a year. Today, Tuesday we there still more birds arriving to the Islands as hot winds continue.

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debates - May 14, 2008 1:43 - 2 Comments

Monk Seal in Funchal

Today, we manage to observe a Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus for one hour in Lido, Funchal before sunset. The mammal was varying in distance from the shore between 50 to 90 meters. Resting, though sometimes it look that it was injured. All the time had its eyes closed. A Labrador Retriever tried to approach it 20 meters away and then returned to the shore, no reaction from the Monk Seal.

Tomorrow, we shall post photos and a detailed report in our websites… And let you know further developments. Please join the debate.

Injured or resting?

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