Marbled Teal Range

The marbled duck or marbled teal marmaronetta angustirostris is a threatened medium sized species of duck from southern europe northern africa and western and central asia.

Marbled teal range.

The action plan needs implementation in the following range states of the marbled teal. Green 1996b undergoing declines in the mediterranean region largely attributed to joss of breeding habitat. 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. The currently very restricted range of this species in europeo.

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. Small subtly beautiful gray brown duck with a black eye mask long neck and wings and dark bill. The marbled teal and ferruginous duck are globally threatened species collar et al 1994.

In flight looks pallid with whitish underwings pale secondaries and dark wingtips. The scientific name marmaronetta angustirostris comes from the greek marmaros marbled and netta a duck and latin angustus narrow or small and rostris billed. Vaguely resembles a female pintail. Spain italy tunisia morocco alge ria western mediterranean population map 1.

Range scattered throughout the mediterranean basin and into russia turkey kazakhstan afghanistan pakistan iran northwest india and northwestern africa. Both sexes are similar but males sport a more prominent shaggy crest. 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. They can also be seen across the middle east russia india and china.