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The Association for the Defense of Nature 'Caralluma', with the support of the Department of Environment of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz, is developing simultaneously two campaigns for the conservation of the Kestrel and urban birds as the Swift.
The councilman of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock in the Caravaqueño Consistory, Enrique Fuentes, and the representative 'Caralluma' Juan de Dios Morenilla have detailed the work of study, ringing and conservation that are being carried out in different areas of the municipality and have invited to the neighbors, both adults and children, to join them as volunteers.
"These campaigns have a conservationist, but also pedagogical and citizen awareness, approaching the population the scientific study of birds and the benefits they bring to agriculture and the environment in general," said Fuentes.
The urban bird conservation campaign runs from May 1 to August 27 and covers various actions such as collecting, recovering and feeding swifts, airplanes or sparrows affected by falls from nests, as well as nesting in nest of common swallow chicks and of swift.
In the 2017 campaign, the volunteers collected some seventy birds, with a recovery success close to 50%.
During the breeding period, 43 swallows, a starling, six common swifts and eight pale swifts were ringed.
With the scientific ringing of the last campaign, the settlement of a large colony, with a hundred pairs of swifts, was corroborated in the main building of Las Fuentes del Marqués.
The conservation campaign of the Lesser Kestrel takes place from June 16 to June 15 and also includes various activities, among which the installation of nest tiles, the adaptation of nests and the cleaning and disinsection of lanes in order to avoid new ones invasive episodes of avian piojillos.
In 1988 'Caralluma' began the conservation and banding work of the Caravaqueño field colony, then the only one known in the Region of Murcia.
Until the middle of the last century, the kestrel primillafue a very frequent inhabitant of towers, cottages, mansions, palaces and castles located in regions dedicated to agriculture and extensive livestock, where they could find abundant invertebrates with which to feed.
It is a species that winters in the south of the Sahara and reaches this area of ​​the peninsula at the end of February.
Its presence is beneficial for agriculture, since it feeds on insects - such as locusts - and small rodents, as well as being a good bioindicator of climate change.
The next activity will be this Sunday, June 24, in the hamlet of La Junquera.
To participate you have to send a message to the Facebook page of 'Caralluma' (the meeting point will be the Cavila Sale gas station, at 9.30 am).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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