๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ-๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐น๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ?
For many visitors, this might be a non-relevant question! This is not the case for the ornithologists and the the students of BirdID Albania.
Kune-Vaini is a coastal wetland with high quantities of fresh water due to the impact of artesian wells that provide continuous fresh water to this lagoon system. Due this fresh water discharge, the wetland system is covered by large reedbeds, creating thus one of the most wetland sites of Albania. The fresh waters and reedbeds are the main reason for the presence of high numbers of ducks, songbirds of reedbeds as well as many other species specialized in fresh and brackish waters.
This very interesting ecosystem, was the site visited by students of BirdID Albania during the weekend of January 30-31, 2021. The observed bird species were very interesting. It was worth noting the presence of Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris), Redwing (Turdus iliacus), Common blackbird (Turdus merula), Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), Common pochard (Aythya ferina), Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula), Northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata), Black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), Water rail (Rallus aquaticus) etc.
However, the highlight of this training session was the Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) that forms here a roosting site of circa 50 specimens. Those sightings gave to the students the opportunity to recall the distinctive features of this bird – “V” shaped wings during flight, brown body and the golden head and throat as distinctive features of the female individuals. Given that observation one of the students did ask : “Why do we constantly observe only female individuals of the Western marsh harrier?โ This interesting question has an interesting answer.
“๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ค ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด, ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ โ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅโ ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐บ, ๐ช.๐ฆ. ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฑ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ท๐ฆ.”
Lastly, this visit would be impossible without the support of the staff of RAPA Lezhw who have always been hospitable and ready to help us during our observations in the Park. Many thanks RAPA Lezhe.
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