Fea’s Petrel (Pterodroma feae)

The information provided here is extracted from the national reports provided by the Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (also known as Bern Convention) to the Group of Experts on Conservation of Birds. Some additional information (marked in red) comes from other sources such as the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans.
Population status
Portugal
Population sizePopulation/rangeSeason status
Legal protection, establishment of protected areas and planning conservation activities
Portugal

Legal protection: protected

Establishment of protected areas:

National/Regional action plan: The project started in 2000 aims at the updating of the 1996 SAP

Implementation of the recommendations of the Bern convention
Conflicts and threats
Portugal
Other conservation and research activities
PortugalThe most relevant action undertaken in the last three years was the development of a field programme with the objective of evaluating the present conservation status of the species. This project was started in 2000 and the expected results are: 1. the revision of the 1996 Action Plan; 2. the implementation of the management measures found to be necessary. To achieve the above mentioned results the following actions were put into the field: (1) nest counting and mapping; (2) evaluation of nest occupancy rates; (3) Evaluation the present situation in what regards the threats referred at the 1996 Action plan (erosion, goats, rabbits, Cory's shearwater; and others (4) Estimates of population size.
Source: The Standing Committee of the Bern Convention has created the Group of Experts on Conservation of Birds. The information provided here is from Government reports presented at a meeting of this group, held in Wageningen (NL) on 11-12 June 2002.