Marbled Teal Range

The scientific name marmaronetta angustirostris comes from the greek marmaros marbled and netta a duck and latin angustus narrow or small and rostris billed.

Marbled teal range.

Now nesting in the southern part of the country where between 1 500 and 2 000 marbled teals are observed during the breeding season azafzaf and smart in litt. Both sexes are similar but males sport a more prominent shaggy crest. Spain italy tunisia morocco alge ria western mediterranean population map 1. Green 1996b undergoing declines in the mediterranean region largely attributed to joss of breeding habitat.

Range marbled teals have an extremely large range and can be found in southern europe and across northwest africa in cameroon gambia senegal nigeria morocco algeria chad mali and egypt. Populations of marbled teal are scattered throughout the mediterranean basin and into russia turkey kazakhstan afghanistan pakistan iran and northwest india. They can also be seen across the middle east russia india and china. The currently very restricted range of this species in europeo.

The action plan needs implementation in the following range states of the marbled teal. Small subtly beautiful gray brown duck with a black eye mask long neck and wings and dark bill. Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world containing over 1 million records about 10 000 species and 22 000 subspecies of birds including distribution information for 20 000 regions taxonomy. Typically found in shallow freshwater or brackish wetlands with abundant emergent.

The marbled teal and ferruginous duck are globally threatened species collar et al 1994. Vaguely resembles a female pintail. In flight looks pallid with whitish underwings pale secondaries and dark wingtips. Range scattered throughout the mediterranean basin and into russia turkey kazakhstan afghanistan pakistan iran northwest india and northwestern africa.