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The garden has Fofó new inhabitants.
A pair of ducks teal duck species - Marmaronetta angustirostris, a copy in danger of extinction, has grown.
This is one of the smaller ducks out there, light grayish brown and mottled.
The Councillor for Environment, Adela Martinez-Cachá, this morning visited the garden of Fofó to see the new offspring of this duck.
The couple grew up in Lake Fofó comes from the collection of various species of ducks and swans were introduced last year in the lake after its remodeling.
This breed is distributed throughout the Mediterranean region, southwest Asia and Central Asia.
In the Iberian Peninsula breeds primarily in the Guadalquivir marshes and wetlands in southern Alicante, Almeria and the Albufera of Valencia itself in Castilla-La Mancha, Mallorca, Fuerteventura and Murcia where you can see with some regularity during the breeding wetlands Murcia, Mar Menor's environment and coastal reservoirs.
Marbled Teal Duck generally feeds in shallow water, so we found an ideal habitat in the lake from the garden of Fofó is an omnivorous species, eat seeds of aquatic plants and aquatic invertebrates.
It makes its nest among the vegetation both inside and outside the water and the clutch size is 11 to 8 eggs.
The Marbled Teal in Spain is ranked as a species 'endangered'.
Anátida is found with increased risk of extinction in the Iberian Peninsula.
The Spanish population is around hundred pairs.
It is a vulnerable and high risk of extinction, collected in the Red Book of Murcia as Critically Endangered.
The disappearance, transformation, degradation and pollution of habitat for this species is the main cause limiting their presence.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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