希腊灭鼠运动海岛鸟类获益

希腊灭鼠运动海岛鸟类获益 17-01-2007

图片文字版权均归原网站所有希腊灭鼠运动海岛鸟类获益海鸟获益，效果显著。在灭鼠之前，大约30％的艾氏隼的蛋和幼鸟被老鼠所食，之后，没有任何鸟类收到老鼠的伤害。2005年3月，大约150公斤的鼠药被用在一些岛上，这些岛是艾氏隼的繁殖地。18个月之后，这些岛上再也没有老鼠的踪迹。老鼠药对鸟类和岛上的其他生物没有损害，RSPB的负责人说。老鼠死在洞里，也不会引来食腐鸟类和其他猛禽。更多的灭鼠计划正在进行中，这些经验的取得对鸟类保护来说是无价的。

Prior to the eradication, up to 30% of Eleonora’s Falcon eggs and nestlings were eaten by rats, but subsequently neither the falcons, nor the breeding seabirds— mainly Mediterranean Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii and Yellow-legged Gulls Larus cachinnans—have suffered rat predation.

“There is no danger to Eleonora’s Falcons, which specialise in feeding on birds and insects, and reptiles and invertebrates are not susceptible to this poison,” explained Jose Tavares, RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) Country Programme Officer for Turkey, Greece and Portugal. “The rats generally die in their burrows so do not pose a significant risk to raptors and scavengers.” A second rat eradication trial is now underway on the 4.5 ha Kastronisia islets in the Northern Sporades, which host up to 24 pairs of Eleonora’s Falcon, and suitable eradication sites across hundreds of Greeks islands in the whole Aegean are being identified and prioritised for future rat-removal.

The project was carried out as part of an EU-LIFE project to improve conservation measures for the Eleonora’s Falcon.

BirdLife International are asking for your support as efforts are put in place to stop the looming extinction of several small parrot species in the Pacific – Kuhl’s (Rimatara) Lorikeet Vini kuhlii, Ultramarine Lorikeet Vini ultramarina and Uvea Parakeet Eunymphicus uvaeensis.