Ghadira Pool Nature Reserve and Bird Sanctuary Malta
A 6ha Ramsar Site on Mellieha Bay in the north-east of Malta, Ghadira is a brackish pool surrounded by reedbeds and Tamarisk scrub and the most important wetland in Malta. Recent decades have seen the creation and restoration of habitat at Ghadira and there is an information centre and observation hide. Most important as a stopover for migrants, the pool attracts various waders including Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers, Little Stint and Curlew Sandpiper, Common Redshank and Ruff, and Wood, Green and Common Sandpipers.
Scarcer species are often present as well as occasional gulls and terns, herons, waterfowl and crakes. Breeding species include Zitting Cisticola and Corn Bunting. In December 2002 the first Greenish Warbler for Malta was ringed here and this is the place for rarities on Malta .
Birds
Birds you can see here include:
Little Bittern, Squacco Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Red-footed Falcon, Common Kestrel, Moorhen, Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Northern Lapwing, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Ruff, Common Snipe, Common Redshank, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Common Kingfisher, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Blue-headed Wagtail, White Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Fan-tailed Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Spanish Sparrow, Corn Bunting
Content and images originally posted by Steve
