Destinations
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Madeira 17 – 24 February 2010
Conservation Project
Europe's rarest breeding seabird and once thought to be extinct, the Zino's Petrel or freira is endemic to Madeira. The Freira Conservation Project (FCP), founded in 1986, is a group of people and institutions working on the conservation of Zino’s petrels, especially by controlling its main predator, the rat. The FCP has overseen a steady increase in numbers nesting in the central massif of Madeira. We will not see them as they can only be seen between April and August. Frank Zino, the son of Alec Zino who rediscovered the bird and named it as a separate species, is the FCP’s president and will meet us for a brief talk about Zino’s petrels.
Zino's petrel (Francis Zino)
More information about Zino's petrel here.
Zino's petrel Species Action Plan
Honeyguide's donations have gone towards the cost of dataloggers attached to Zino's petrels, to chart their movements away from Madeira. Our holiday report from February 2009 (here) explains more of this - see the thank you letter from Dr Zino at the end of the report.
