Mike Williamson has asked me to inform Ontbirds readers that he has further communications with Birdlife Spain. While the comment period has ended, Birdlife Spain feels additional emails encouraging Spanish authorities to reconsider this proposal are needed.
Please follow the link below for more information. http://www.seo.org/programa_seccion_ficha.cfm?idPrograma=24&idArticulo=419 Mark Cranford Ontbirds Coordinator Mississauga, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Carlos Atienza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:25 AM Subject: [BIRDHAWK] IMPORTANT BIRD CONSERVATION ACTION Dear friends, From SEO/BirdLife we want to apply for your help. We have a big problem because near Ciudad Real (about 185 km. south from Madrid) a private airport is being built. The airport is limiting to a SPA (Special Protection Area) and it is inside of an IBA (Important Bird Area) where there is a very important population of steppe birds. In the SPA and the IBA, you can find other species of steppe birds like: Great Bustard (Otis tarda), Little Bustard (Tetrax tetrax), Stone-Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus), Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis), Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) and Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni). First at all, the airport project was inside of a SPA but finally they thought about it and afterwards a complaint in the European Commission it was situated outside but just in the limit of the SPA and inside of the IBA. Nowadays, the case has an other opened complaint in the European Commission and just now they have order of stopping the works. We are very concerned about this problem and we are working on this case several years ago. The construction of the airport inside the IBA will suppose the total destruction of the steppe area because they will build other buildings and infrastructures associated. The case has many problems but one of the more important is that politicians want to build it in that place because it would be very close to the high-speed train station. We are not against of building the airport in this province but we do not agree that the airport will be built in that place, near SPA and inside of the IBA. So, Could you, please, send a e-mail to the Spanish Ministry of Environment [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible the allegations you can find in this website? Please send us other e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for our knowledge, writing in the subject the word "airport". You can download the allegations from here in word file: http://www.seo.org/programa_seccion_ficha.cfm?idPrograma=24&idArticulo=419 If you need more information, just let me know. Please, re-send this e-mail to everybody interested in the environmental conservation. Many thanks in advance. Juan Carlos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Juan Carlos Atienza, Ph.D. Head of Conservation Unit Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife) Melquiades Biencinto, 34 E-28053 Madrid Spain Tel.: +34 91 434 09 10 Fax: +34 91 434 09 11 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SEO/BirdLife is the Spanish association to the study and conservation of birds and their habitats, and the partner of BirdLife International in Spain. More information about our organization in http://www.seo.org. --- Mark Cranford ONTBIRDS Coordinator Mississauga, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 279 9576 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 13 08:48:36 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from hotmail.com (bay103-f39.bay103.hotmail.com [65.54.174.49]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FB4649E1 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:48:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:53:38 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 65.54.174.200 by by103fd.bay103.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:53:38 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.54.174.200] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Ken Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:53:38 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jul 2005 12:53:38.0951 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3B61170:01C587A9] Subject: [Ontbirds]RE Rufous Hummingbird near Stratford not seen X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:48:36 -0000 Folks The adult, male Rufous Hummingbird seen by three of us Friday evening between 6 pm and 8 pm at Harmony crossing just south of Stratford has not been seen again. We had a good look at the bird through the window and across the porch as it made repeated visits to the hummingbird feeder even chasing off an oriole. Must fly Ken Clarke Stratford, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Ken Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE Rufous Hummingbird near Stratford >Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:54:10 +0000 > >Folks > >I am beginning to believe there is a Perth County Triangle for birds, like >the Bermuda Triangle. In the past few weeks three rare species have been >found around Stratford. Four weeks ago a Chukar appeared near Avonton and >was seen on three occasions, once by me. Last Monday a Carlingford >resident reported a single sighting of a European Goldfinch and I have the >pictures to verify it. And Friday an excited birder called to say they had >a Rufous Hummingbird at their feeder near Harmony. I rushed out and say >the bird myself. None of these birds has been spotted in the last few days, >but if any of them does I will report the directions. > > >Must fly > >Ken Clarke >Stratford, ON >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
