Set the scene.
BirdLife Malta worked with the British Trust for Ornithology to map breeding birds. The islands were divided into 394 one-kilometre grid squares.
Here’s the twist.
Observers recorded birds and signs of breeding using standard methods. In basic squares, they surveyed habitats for an hour between dawn and ten in the morning.
Why it still matters.
The atlas created a baseline for comparing future changes in distribution and numbers. A map becomes more useful when someone can repeat the method later.
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