Another visit to IVFC

This week the team had once again the opportunity to visit and monitor fieldwork in the islet of Vila Franca do Campo (IVFC). However, since the summer struggles to appear over here the results were not the best, leaving us with the usual and totally wet , note that the endemic vegetation (heather and fire trees) grow easly, download the data of Automatic Recording Units (ARUs), ring some cory`s shearwater to the islet population census and trying to listen the calls of seabirds to end the evening.

Back to Corvo and to the "different summer" plaguing the archipelago.

SOS Manx shearwater 2012

One more year...and once again manx shearwater juveniles start to abandon their nest and to appear in Vila do Corvo. We appreciate the precious help of people who have rescued these birds, which in Azores, only breed in the Western group.
So, I say goodbye with the feeling of having started the day well and with good wishes to those who course the unknown ocean for the first time.

Mapping - the last days

These last days of summer and good weather we are trying to complete the alien vegetation map of Corvo Island. With the help of Beatriz and Rosemary we were able to map around 60% of th island total area. They finish the volunteer program but the work goes on.

The preliminary data show the Great leaf Hydrangea has the most abundant specie that occur in higher altitude of Corvo.

The image below is possible to see:

- in black the distribution of Big Leaf Hydrangea

- in red the distribution of Tamarisk

- in blue the distribution of the Australian Cheesewood

Soon we will update this information and publish online.

We appreciate all the help given by the volunteers.