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The reproduction of the European spoon, a very scarce reproductive duck in Spain, together with the nesting of the white-headed malvasia and the red duck, confirms the importance of this wetland for the reproduction of endangered and / or rare ducks. Technicians from the Association of Southeast Naturalists (ANSE) have detected the successful reproduction of the European shoveler (Anas clypeata) in the lagoons of the Cabezo Beaza Wastewater Treatment Plant (Cartagena).

The finding has been produced within the framework of the monitoring of the bird community carried out by the Association in collaboration with Hidrogea and the Hon.

Cartagena City Council. It is one of the few records in which there is evidence of reproduction of the species throughout the Iberian Southeast (and it is surely the first record in the Region of Murcia) and it confirms the importance of this artificial wetland for the conservation of the ducks. The relevance of this wetland has been increasing after the installation of floating islands within the framework of the agreements established between ANSE and Hidrogea.

These infrastructures have allowed the nesting of birds that require reed beds, since the banks of the reservoirs are made of gravel and are devoid of vegetation. In this sense, the shoveler comes to join other breeding ducks in the lagoons such as the white-headed malvasía (globally threatened duck), the red duck (cataloged in the Region of Murcia), the white jar, to which more species are added.

common such as blue or common porrón.

This relevance is accentuated by the more or less frequent presence of the gray teal, perhaps the most endangered duck in Spain that has not reproduced to date. Shoveler (Anas clypeata) The shoveler is a bird that takes its name from the characteristic shape of the beak that it uses to filter water and feed itself.

It is a species with a Holarctic distribution (temperate zones), which in Europe extends mainly through the northern, central and eastern regions, its presence being more rare in the south. In Spain it is a scarce nesting site (Extremadura, Andalusia and the north of the peninsula, the Daimiel tables, the Ebro delta and certain Levantine wetlands) estimated at about 100-200 pairs.  Photos (c): Diego Zamora (ANSE) 

Source: Hidrogea