Could Doñana, SW Spain, be an important wintering area for continental Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa limosa?
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82 – 86
Published
1 August 11
Authors
Rocío Márquez-Ferrando, Jos Hooijmeijer, Niko Groen, Theunis Piersma, Jordi Figuerola
Correspondence
Rocío Márquez-Ferrando
rociomarquez@ebd.csic.es
Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Avda. Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla 41092, Spain.
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In November 2010, we discovered the importance of the Doñana National and Natural Park, in SW Spain, for the declining nominate subspecies of the Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa limosa. Among about 15,000 godwits, we observed 109 different colour-ringed birds of which 91 (83%) were of the nominate race, four were from the Icelandic race L. l. islandica and 14 were indeterminate. This suggests that part of the continental Black-tailed Godwit population remains in Europe instead of migrating to their traditional W African non-breeding quarters.