Natural monuments birds
The chapter includes white monuments (common and curly pelican, spoon bill,
great egret or white heron, small egret, mute swan, trumpeter swan) and polychrome
monuments (stilt, avocete, rusty tadoma, white-tailed eagle).
The Danube Delta shelters over 3,400 species of vertebrates and invertebrates, many of them unique in the country, in Europe or even in the world.
Birds
The bird population of the Delta totals more than 300 species, 70 of which
extra-European. Five main types are registered: Mediterranean (heron, glossy ibis,
small cormorants, bald eagle, stilt, avocete, tadoma, pelican), European
(singing birds: reed nightingale, bunting, boicus, sea swallow, seagull, sea eagle, white-tail eagle),
Siberian (trumpeter swan, plover, common loon, small snipe, crane),
Mongolian (bald eagle, Danube falcon),
Chinese (egret, mute swan, big cormorant, mandarin duck).
Natural monuments birds
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Fishes
Some 150 species are known, including 30 in the Delta proper.
In the Danube arms, common presence are the sterlet, great bleak, beluga,
BBlack Sea sturgeon, sevruga, mackarel, carp, sheat fish, zander, pike,
barbel, rapacious carp; the still water is fit place to live in for crucian,
perch, bream, the water with low salinity is populated by various species from perch
and pike to grey mullet and flounder, depending on the salinity degree, the sea sector
shelters mostly Acipenserides (beluga, common strugeon) and Clupeidae (Danube mackerel).
| The fame of the Delta is made bu the sturgeons (beluga, common sturgeon, sevruga, sterlet), grey mullets (in four species of the Mugil genus), the mackarels (Alosa pontica). |
Mammals
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Sand land is home to thee tortoises, vipers and snake colonies.
The animals from the images are: the curly pelican (Pelecanus crispus), the common sturgeon (Acipenser güldenstaedti), the otter (Lutra lutra).
| Last update: 1999, September 15 | |||||||||
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