marbled duck
marbled teal latin
marmaronetta angustirostris latin

Akyatan is an important breeding area for the endangered marbled duck and rarely seen purple swamphen and black francolin.

ARKive - images and movies of the marbled duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)

The Oued Massa holds water throughout the year and has breeding Marbled Ducks, a globally threatened species.

The peculiar Marbled Duck, formerly tentatively assigned to the dabbling ducks, is actually a diving duck or even a distinct subfamily.

The Marbled Duck, or Marbled Teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris), is a medium-sized duck.

Ruddy Shelduck, Marbled Duck, and Audouin's Gull inhabit the lagoon permanently, and a big number of species migrate here in winter.

The most notable of the many species present in the park are the Marbled duck and the White-headed duck with the park containing two of the largest worldwide populations.

The Marbled Duck which makes up the monotypic genus Marmaronetta, however, seems very distinct and might have diverged prior to the split of dabbling and diving ducks as indicated by morphological and molecular characteristics.

Biological Names: Dalmatian Pelican, Indian Darter Bar-headed Goose, White-winged Wood Duck, Marbled Duck, Baer's Pochard, Siberian Crane, Indian Skimmer and Oriental Goosander.

Marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris)

There have been several reports of Black Storks, cranes and flocks of vulnerable Marbled Teal.

The marshes supported breeding populations of the Basra Reed-warbler and Marbled Teal, along with several other species of non-breeding birds.

The Marbled Duck, or Marbled Teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris), is a medium-sized duck.

MARBLED TEAL Anas angustirostris.

Ludlow,F (1916) Breeding of the Marbled Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris and other birds at Sonmeani, Baluchistan.

The wetlands, an important habitat for breeding and migrant waterfowl including the dalmatian pelican and the marbled teal, have provided water for agricultural irrigation for at least 5,000 years.

Intensive farming methods and particularly insecticides have had a disastrous effect on the lesser kestrel, an insectivore which now numbers only hundreds, whilst wetland birds such as the marbled teal and white-headed duck fail as their habitat is drained for crops.

Balkhash is also the habitat of 120 types of bird, including cormorants, Marbled Teal, pheasants, golden eagle and great egret; 12 of those are endangered, including White Pelican, Dalmatian Pelican, spoonbill, whooper and erne.

Winter visitors include Ruddy Shelduck, Common Shelduck, Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Marbled Teal, Greater Flamingo, Common Coot, Pied Avocet, Grey Plover, and Slender-billed Curlew.

What I did not see, or at least did not recognize, were three of the Donana's rarest and most celebrated birds: the crested coot, the marbled teal and the Spanish imperial eagle, a magnificent predator with white markings and a highly uncertain future.

ARKive - images and movies of the marbled duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)

Marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris)

The Marbled Duck, or Marbled Teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris), is a medium-sized duck.

Ludlow,F (1916) Breeding of the Marbled Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris and other birds at Sonmeani, Baluchistan.