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A copy of marbled teal (Marbled duck) was killed last November in the Natural Park of Pego-Oliva (Valencia) during a hunting day.
Information has been obtained thanks to the collaboration of local hunters data that refer birds hunt and bearing ring.
The bird was ringed in 2007 by the group ANSE ringing in the wetlands of the Rambla of mulberry (Mazarrón, Murcia) where a couple of this species was played during the years 2007 and 2008.
The recovery of this issue seven years and three months after banding represents the longest record is known for this species which is in all European ducks, which has a lower average age of adults (around 2.2 years).
So far, no banded bird was recovered beyond their third winter of life.
This species, which was cited as the most common Waterfowl nesting in the marshes of Doñana in the late nineteenth century, has suffered a dramatic decline becoming present in a species on the brink of extinction in Spain, with just a few dozen couples distributed among the Levantine breeding wetlands and marshes of Doñana (Huelva).
This fact has been known by the bird carrying an officer who was sent by the Office Banding managed by SEO / BirdLife metal ring.
As has been confirmed ANSE from the same Generalitat Valenciana, the data sent to the Office Banding death was a teal, a species with which it was confused.
The species has several forms of protection, being listed as "Critically Endangered" by the Red Book of Birds of Spain (SEO / BirdLife, 2004), and "Endangered" by the National Catalogue of Threatened Species as in regional catalogs of Valencia and Murcia.
Also is included in Annex I of the European Directive Conservation of Wild Birds (Directive 79/409 / EEC Aves), which commits member you UE to order measures allowing maintenance of habitat occupied by the species included statements in that Annex.
All this has failed to prevent further allowing the hunting of waterfowl in the few wetlands where this species is still.
The death of this bird has been produced in a natural area that includes several types of protection.
The Pego-Oliva is declared as a Special Protection Area for Birds and a Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Convention).
Nevertheless hunting remains a permitted activity, and authorizing the Government continues its start before dawn, which can lead to situations how are you, where Failing to clearly distinguish the target species.
Hunting is described as one of the main threats to the marbled teal.
The shot specimen was mistaken for a teal, game species.
Proper regulation and control of hunting is one of the key measures for situations like this do not happen again, and avoid extinction in the Iberian Peninsula the very small marbled teal.
Source: ANSE
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