In direct Nest: See cagarra born in Corvo on the Internet – PT Journal

A creates cagarro, born in July, is the protagonist of an online channel. In direct, SPEA will show the daily life of the little bird, the expectation that survive the next three days. If I can, you can fly to the coast of Brazil or South Africa before the arrival of winter.
 

It is in the true sense of the term a ‘reality show’.: SPEA – Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds created a channel that broadcasts direct the day to day of a baby cagarro

 

The calf was born in July in the Azorean island which gives its name to the project: ‘Honeymoon in Crow’. The goal of the online channel allowing the monitoring of the birth and growth of Cory’s Shearwaters, a very common species in the Azores.

 

It is expected that the bird born in July have better luck than her sister. In 2011, when the SPEA launched the program, a cat ate the protagonist creates.

 

The technique Pipa Tania recalls that “84 percent of the predation of pups from cagarro is carried by cats.” Only in Corvo, the smallest island of the Azores, there are about 160 wild cats, about a third of the resident population (of around the 430 persons).

 

The SPEA has taken measures to control the birth of felines and now that promotes direct on shearwater, hopes that this time “everything goes well with this creates.”

 

“Obviously, these cats produce a detrimental effect on the offspring, who are alone and have no means of defense,” said Tania Pipa, referring to the sterilization program that runs on Corvo, either for domestic cats, wants to feral cats.

 

More than 1,600 people have called the direct transmission, available through http://cagarro.spea.pt/ address.

 

Before being eaten by a cat, the offspring of 2011 had over 27 thousand spectators.

 

At present, the baby has been alone, since the parents visiting only for food.

 

If it survives, will have 90 days to gain strength and undertake migration southward, where they will spend the winter, or the Brazilian coast in south africa. May return within six to seven years, to nest.

  The initiative of SPEA was ranked as a priority action during the LIFE project ‘Safe Islands for Seabirds’, considered one of the best of 2013 by the European Commission.
 

In the project also participate in the Regional Directorate of Maritime Affairs, the Natural Park of Corvo and the Service of Agrarian Development of Flores and Corvo.