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The Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, expressed his satisfaction after receiving the news, by the Southeastern Association of Naturalists, the presence of an adult specimen of calamón (Porphyrio Porphyrio) in the Segura River.
The discovery was made in the context of the draft environmental recovery peri-Contraparada Murcia river corridor, developed in collaboration with the Department of Environment of the City of Murcia.
The horned owl (family of coots and moorhens) that nearly extinct in Spain in the 50s and 60s of last century, the protection measures for the species (prohibition of hunting) and wetland inhabiting, and reintroduction projects allowed many rapid recovery, there is presently a large population in the Iberian Peninsula.
Still, the swan (Porphyrio Porphyrio) is a species of Community interest in Directive Aves.
In Murcia it is a rather rare species, nesting in Azud Eye (White), first breeding locality in the Community and in Rambla of mulberry (Mazarrón), Campotéjar (Molina de Segura) Rambla Albujón (Cartagena) and Lagunas de Alhama (Alhama de Murcia).
Apparently this is the first record of the species in a riparian habitat in the Region of Murcia, which opens the possibility of a broad expansion of the species.
The cabochon is an omnivorous bird that feeds preferably helophytes as reeds, cattails and reeds, can even cause conflicts in certain crops when densities are high.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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