Table 1
Order
Falconiformes
Ciconiiformes
Sample inventory, feeding and migratory behaviour of the 14 bird species under study.
Species
Scientific name
N Feeding habits
Black kite
Milvus migrans
22
Red kite
Milvus milvus
2
Western marsh
harrier
Circus
aeruginosus
1
Booted eagle
Aquila pennata
6
Common kestrel
Falco
tinnunculus
Black-winged kite
Elanus caeruleus
Glossy ibis
Plegadis
falcinellus
Predator and scavenger. It feeds on rabbits,
birds (especially young), reptiles,
amphibians, fish, insects and carrion
(including meat from rubbish dumps, and
road killed animals).
Predator and scavenger. It feeds on small
or medium-sized mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, large insects and carrion
(including meat from rubbish dumps, and
road killed animals).
It feeds mainly on rabbits, rodents,
medium-sized birds, their offsprings and
eggs.
It feeds mainly on medium-sized birds;
rabbits, reptiles and occasionally large
insects.
Migratory behaviour of
breeding population
Migratory, wintering in
sub-Saharan Africa
Resident and dispersive
Resident and dispersive
Migratory, wintering in
sub-Saharan Africa.
Resident and dispersive,
and possibly partially
migratory
Potentially resident, but
It feeds on small-sized mammals, birds and some individuals make
1
lizards.
large-scale nomadic
movements
It feeds mainly on aquatic beetles and
Migratory and dispersive.
4 dragonfly larvae; also Harp-ribbed
Part of the population
Salamanders (Pleurodeles waltl) and small winters in Doñana
13
Their preys are usually small size
mammals, small birds, reptiles and insects.
Strigiformes
Charadriiformes
Anseriformes
Carp (Cyprinus carpio).
It feeds mainly on fish, amphibians,
3 Odonata nymphs and aquatic beetles.
Occasionally birds.
It feeds on red-swamp crayfish
(Procambarus clarkii), large insects,
34 rodents, snakes, lizards, snakes, frogs, fish,
bird eggs and nestlings, remains of human
food.
Purple heron
Ardea purpurea
White stork
Ciconia ciconia
Barn owl
Tyto alba
Slender-billed gull
Chroicocephalus
genei
3
Black-headed gull
Chroicocephalus
ridibundus
7
Gull-billed tern
Gelochelidon
nilotica
8
Gadwall
Anas strepera
10
1
It feeds mainly on small mammals,
Pelobates cultripes and small birds.
Mainly fish and invertebrates (brineshrimps Artemia spp., Diptera larvae,
beetle larvae and adults).
Mainly insects and earthworms, but
commonly supplemented by plant material
and household or industrial waste.
It feeds mainly on insects and crustaceans;
also amphibians and fish.
It mainly feeds on the vegetative part of
plants (roots, leaves, tubers, bud and seeds
of aquatic plants) and algae, with
infrequent animal material, probably
accidental.
Migratory, wintering in
sub-Saharan Africa
Mainly migratory, but a
part of the population is
resident
Resident, but young birds
make dispersive
movements
Mainly migratory, but a
small part of the
population is resident
Dispersive or partially
migratory
Migratory, wintering in
sub-Saharan Africa
Resident