Asked by Keystone-SDA on Wednesday, Ficedula President Roberto Lardelli said willow yellow strait usually stays in Portugal’s Azores archipelago during the cold season. This is where bird species living in North America overwinter.
But this year ornithologists in the Azores searched in vain for the yellow willow throats, Lardelli said. But now one of them has apparently arrived in Ticino.
This “change” may have something to do with climate changes. Lardelli noted that the observation at the Bolle di Magadino nature reserve may be the first record of bird species on the European continent.
But the head of the Italian-speaking Switzerland’s Ornithology and Bird Protection Service is also worried about the little bird belonging to the warbler family: Now that the temperatures have dropped, the willow yellow throat will soon not find the beetles. it has to survive.
(SDA)