Aims to value the importance of wheat fields for the conservation of steppe birds and contribute towards the conservation of the Montagu’s Harrier in Portugal, a critically endangered threatened species. Main research results attained:
- Carried out a first assessment on the conservation status of the Montagu’s Harrier in Portugal, revealing a critically depleted population and the need to implement urgent conservation action
- Colony and nest surveys to support conservation and rescue actions of early cuts of cereal and hay fields
- Coordination of first national survey of the Montagu’s Harrier in Portugal
- Study on the diversity of birds in cereal fields
- Movement ecology Montagu’s Harrier of juvenile birds
