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Butrinti National ParkButrint is located in the south of Albania, on the coast opposite the island of Corfu (which is Greek). It is an especially interesting site as it has one of the best Greek/Roman ruins (currently being improved by a British archeological foundation) in the Mediterranean, and which is part of the Butrint National Park. The park encompasses a typical Mediterranean coastal wetland, which is being referred for Ramsar status. The website has a birdlist for the park. Anyone birding Corfu could easily get there via the ferry from Corfu to Saranda (not far), in Albania. Taxis to the site (24 kms) are quite cheap and there is even a very cheap local bus if you are prepared to wait. The wetland and surrounding hills have footpaths which are marked on the informative park leaflet (in English). The area is peaceful, as are the local people, and very definitely non-threatening and a visit can combine high class birding and a superb cultural experience.
Paul Mollatt
Albania Guide to its Natural TreasuresWolfgang Fremuth (Editor)ISBN: 3931323064 Buy this book from NHBS.com
BirdLifeAlbanian Society for the Protection of Birds (ASPBM) is the BirdLife Partner Designate ProactCoordinator: none (why not apply?) see http://www.proact-campaigns.net/coordinators Members: None yet! Join us at http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team
Albanian Society for the Protection & Preservation of BirdsFaculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana University, Al-Tirana, +335 42 29 028 mns@albmail.com The Butrint Foundationhttp://www.butrintfound.dial.pipex.com/aims.htmButrint is undeniably a beautiful place. Close to modern civilization yet with its monuments in thick woodland, it is reminiscent of the age of 19th-century tourism. Set in a marshy landscape between Lake Butrint, an inland lagoon, and the busy straits separating Corfu from Albania, it is an environmental haven rich in birdlife...
Butrint National Parkhttp://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=2970&cid=17&oid=0Butrint nature park boasts a high degree of biodiversity, with the presence of rare species under preservation, which make the site attractive for eco-tourists and naturalists... Important Bird Areashttp://www.birdlife.net/datazone/search/sites_search.html?action=SitHTMFindResults.asp&INam=&Cty=2&z=1BirdLife International`s annotated list of IBAs in Albania. Prespa ParkDeclaration on the Creation of the Prespa Park and the Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of the Prespa Lakes and their Surroundings... Wetland of International Importancehttp://www.ramsar.orgThe Convention on Wetlands came into force for Albania on 29 February 1996. Albania presently has 1 site designated as a Wetland of International Importance, with a surface area of 20,000 hectares.
Travelling Birder 2001 [February] - Luca Peruzzi - Butrint National Park Southern Albaniahttp://www.camacdonald.com/birding/tripreports/Butrint01.html...before being a diplomat I`m a keen bird-watcher, and during the last two years (actually not so much, but every time I could) I visited some Albanian sites in order to look for birds... 2003 [June] - Robert Butlinhttp://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/albania/albania1/alb-ju-03.htmA University friend is now working for the European Commission in Tirana extended an invitation to me to travel to Albania to see him. This note is a short resumé of the bird life seen in Albania. I am a competent amateur birder with relatively limited experience of Mediterranean wildlife. I spent four nights in his house towards the outskirts of Tirana, one night in a hotel in Fieri when en route to Dhermi in the South of Albania, one night in Dhermi itself. I also spent a few hours mid afternoon one day in a National Park to the east of Tirana... 2004 [May] - Robert Butlinhttp://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/albania/albania2/alb-may-2004.htmMy birdwatching started on Friday 30th April, when with the very grateful approval of Taulant and his colleagues from the Museum of Natural History I hitched a ride on a trip to survey a wetland north of Tirana at which Italian hunters had apparently been shooting Ferruginous Duck Aythia ferrugea over the Winter. On the way up I spotted but was unable to identify, a lone male harrier. Given the report in May`s British Birds I`m tempted to claim it as a Pallid Circus Macronus, but in reality I can`t tell...
Biodiversityhttp://www.grida.no/enrin/biodiv/biodiv/national/albania/intro.htmThere are some 91 globally threatened species found in Albania. These include the Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus); Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus); and the Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) for which Albania is a country of particularly critical importance... EAF Projecthttp://www.eeconet.org/eaf/albania/index.htmlThe conservation of birds, and particularly the Dalmatian pelican in the Divjak-Karavasta complex. |
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