Portal de San Pedro del Pinatar
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Since the creation of the nature reserve in 1985 and the Regional Park in 1992, the salt is an example of harmonious balance between economic activity and the protection of nature and biodiversity
Numerous types of birds find food in a seemingly small as the Salinas de San Pedro del Pinatar ecosystem.
As there are three different types of ponds: warehousing, heating and crystallizing, having different salt concentrations, there are also differences in the tiny living beings that inhabit and therefore the birds that feed on them.
The key is in the way they do: each bird species has a bill and feet adapted to the area of ​​the salt where it feeds.
The exploitation of the salt flats of San Pedro del Pinatar dates back to Roman times.
Since the creation of the nature reserve in 1985 and the Regional Park in 1992, is an example of harmonious balance between economic activity and the protection of nature and biodiversity.
The warehousing ponds have similar salinity from the Mar Menor, although somewhat higher.
They are the deeper pools and mud bottom consists resulting from the decomposition of organic matter.
Therefore, they are the richest in both invertebrates and fish and aquatic plants.
These ponds are chosen by ducks and grebes, and thanks to its short legs and webbed feet can swim and dive for plants, small crustaceans and fish.
are also present here the smaller, like plovers, sandpipers and turnstone waders.
With its legs and short peaks they feed on the banks of the insects that live in the mud.
Flamingoes add to the search of small crustaceans, but in different ways: with its long legs churning up the bottom, dipped his head and through the peak filter water to feed.
heating Charcas
The heating ponds are shallow and have a higher salt concentration than before.
Some small invertebrates such as bloodworms and brine shrimp, and fish like fartet, have adapted to life in this very salty environment.
Flamingos, herons, waders and gulls seeking sustenance in these ponds.
Shorebirds feed on young people of the different layers of mud depending on the length of its legs and beak.
For example, cigüeñuelas feed on invertebrates that live in the deeper layers of mud, while avocets, with its curved beak, sweeping the topsoil.
Waders with beak and legs are shorter on the shores pecking.
Herons are prepared to catch fish or hunt small critters around.
With their long necks and sharp beaks, their strategy is to locate a piece and launched quickly for her.
In these ponds are also different types of seagulls, as the slender-billed pecking invertebrates that are floating in the water feed.
The seagulls, however, predate all kinds of animals, catch fish, eggs and even chickens eat other species of birds.
The black-headed gulls and Audouin looking fish and invertebrates while flying over the salt flats.
Crystallizing ponds in the salt concentration is so high that only bacteria and micro-algae are able to survive, so that birds can not feed them and use them only to rest and build their nests in spring and summer.
Source: CARM
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