Save the LAGOA dos SALGADOS !!!

The Lagoa dos Salgados, near Praia Grande, between Armação de Pera and Albufeira, is still one of the paradises of the Algarve coast. As well as the lagoon, which is home to countless species of birds, it also has a huge stretch of dunes.

A few years ago a golf course and a tourist development were built on one of the banks of the lagoon, and the development is now abandoned. On top of that, 2 more golf courses, hotels and holiday villages have now been approved for the other side of the lagoon, adding up to a further 4,000 beds, which will destroy this still untouched nature.

So that we can all do our part for what is left of the Natural Algarve, let us sign this petition here. Thank you!

Gathering of the Friends of the Lagoa dos Salgados :: 20 October 2012

2 huge flocks of white storks arrived at the lagoon to spend the night

Avocet (in Portuguese "alfaiate", the tailor) | feeds on insects, worms, molluscs, etc., pecking at the surface of the mud with a movement that looks like a tailor's stitching

Black-winged stilt, also from the wader family (groups of long-legged birds that usually live near water)

Flamingos

White storks

Male mallard

As beginners at watching birds, so-called birdwatching, we hope we have not got any bird's name wrong :) This weekend we were able to see Audouin's gull (a rare species of gull), flamingos, white storks, cormorants, little grebes, stonechats, sandpipers, black-winged stilts, avocets, snipe, mallards, and a few more whose names we do not know.

If anyone would like to complete the photo captions, thank you very much! :)