A puffin (Fratercula arctica) has been sighted in the waters of Taranto in recent days. It hadn't happened for over 100 years
A rarity to say the least. A puffin (Fratercula arctica) has been sighted in the waters of Taranto in recent days. A fact that to many of us, perhaps, does not say anything but is a real event. Since the late 1800s, no puffins were seen in those areas.
An event celebrated and made known by the Jonian Dolphin Conservation organization on the occasion of World Oceans Day. With a post on its Facebook page, the organization reported that it was citizens who immortalized the puffin during one of the Citizen Science days organized by the Jonian Dolphin Conservation.
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Posted by Jonian Dolphin Conservation on Tuesday, June 8, 2021
The Centro Studi de Romita, an important team of ornithologists with whom the organization has been collaborating for some time for the monitoring of seabirds in the Gulf of Taranto, confirmed that it was just a puffin.
Once again "our" sea, "our" Gulf are a treasure trove of biodiversity of very important value that we must continue to discover and protect, together
prosegue the Ionian Dolphin Conservation.
An event to celebrate as the puffin is considered vulnerable by the IUCN. The European Red List of Birds, produced by the European Commission and BirdLife International, found that 13% of European bird species are threatened with extinction, largely due to habitat loss and degradation and climate change.
Out of 533 species assessed at pan-European level, 67 (13%) are threatened with regional extinction and 6 species have become extinct (since 1800). Among these, two once very common seabirds are classified as endangered: the puffin and the northern fulmar. According to the ICC, their populations have recently begun to plummet under the combined blows of overfishing and climate change.
Reference source: Facebook / JonianDolphinConservation
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