New bird incident module available

As part of the LIFE PowerLines4Birds project, E-REDES has added a new module to its Digital Branch App that allows the recording of bird mortality on power lines.

On May 8, SPEA and E-Redes, the project's partners, held a training session in Vila Real on this new incident reporting module in the E-REDES app, aimed at senior technicians and environmental protection officers from ICNF's Northern Regional Directorate. The aim of the session was to train professionals in the field to record accidents involving birds on power lines, reinforcing the detection and reporting of these cases.

On the following days, May 9 and 10, the functionality was presented to the public at the ObservArribas festival in Mogadouro. The first session was dedicated to schools and the second to the general public. This new module reinforces the participatory aspect of the E-REDES application, accessible to any citizen interested in contributing to bird protection (LINK).

The aim of this new feature is to encourage greater participation in recording bird incidents, involving technicians and citizens in a collective effort for conservation.

The LIFE PowerLines4Birds project is co-financed by the European Union's LIFE Program and aims to reduce the impact of power lines by electrocution and collision on the Iberian Peninsula for 7 priority bird species that are highly vulnerable to these threats.

Partners in this project are the League for the Protection of Nature (LPN), the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), QUERCUS - National Association for Nature Conservation, the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO/Birdlife) and E-Redes.