MAY 2014: marsh passerines, one of our protagonists

During the month of May passerines, small birds of between 10 and 30 grams, begin to settle in the swamps of our constructed wetlands. A wide variety of species use marsh environments: the ubiquitous zitting cisticola (trist, Cisticola juncidis) occupying any water...

APRIL 2014: The exotic fish of the constructed wetlands

In the framework of the LIFE + Albufera project, a special effort is made in order to monitor the fish community of the 3 constructed wetlands, a study which extends to other underwater vertebrate fauna, such as water snakes and freshwater turtles (European and...

MARCH 2014: A winter of abundances

Beat thewinter,andwhile some of thewintering birdsreturn to theirbreedingplacesin the North of Europe, we can make afirst estimation on how many birds spent the winter in the three constructed wetlands. In winter, the sample was takenevery 10 days, although the wind...

FEBRUARY 2014: Why fish?

The fish fauna is one of the groups of indicators measuring the biological quality whose study is required by the Water Framework Directive. And, how can we know through fish the physico-chemical changes experienced in aquatic environments? Physically, the fish...