Venezuelan mangrove birds

#waterfowl   Venezuela is a country with abundant coasts, the mangrove area of that country covers an area of approximately 673,500 hectares and is located discontinuously, on a total coastal strip of 3,300 km. When considering the total sum of shores occupied by mangroves, it is equivalent to 1,100 km, and we can conclude that they occupy about 33% of the coast.

When comparing these figures with other countries, it gives us an estimate of this coastal resource. Depending on their location in the discontinuous mangrove areas along the Venezuelan coast, they can be divided into six large regions: central, central western, western, central eastern, eastern and island.

In these areas there is a diversity of flora and fauna, among which several birds typical of the mangrove coexist and some that spend a stage of their life there, some will develop due to the large group and species that exist

We have the podicepedids, which are medium-sized waterfowl, excellent swimmers and divers. Despite having its wolved toes, the legs are far behind its body, adopting a clumsy march on land. There are 20 species in the world, two of which occur in Venezuela. As are Maca gris (tachybaptus dominicus) and thick-billed grebe (podilymbus podiceps) like the one on the cover

Hydrobatids are known with petrels, they are small seabirds. They feed on plankton and small fish from the surface, which they usually catch during the flight. Their flight is very similar to bats. There are 21 species in the world and 2 occur in Venezuela., such as paiño de Wilson and paiño boreal