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Watching birds in the Ebro delta is a spectacle, as seen in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos, but also a real pleasure for photography fans. In this case, the images have been captured in La Ràpita.
As the tourist office highlights, the Tancada lagoon in the Ebro delta, with about 250 hectares of area, constitutes a very rich natural environment, both due to the presence of birds and fish.
La Tancada presents two basins of similar sizes and shallow depths (less than 70 cm). As for fauna, it is an important wintering space for the coot (Fulica atra), the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus), the avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) and several ducks.
Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) and herons (Ardea cinerea) often move in search of food. Species such as the avocet, the black-billed eagle (Sterna nilotica), the red shrimp (Tringa totanus), the mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos), the common coot (Fulica atra), the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) also nest in the area. , the stilt (Himantopus himantopus) and the common tern (Sterna hirundo).
In this area, one of the great observation points are the Encanyissada viewpoints, the largest lagoon in the Ebro delta. It covers some 900 hectares and has a depth of 114 cm.
It is connected naturally with the sea, with the Alfacs bay, through the Gola Vella, but also artificially by the drains that go from the lagoon to the bay.
The lagoon “becomes an important place for the nesting, wintering and passage of many species of ducklings, larids, ardeids and passerines.”
Up to 150 species of birds have been cited, of which it is worth mentioning the imperial heron (Ardea purpurea), the common martinet (Ixobrychus minutus), the avetoro (Botaurus stellaris), the crab egret (Ardeola ralloides ), the squid ( Porphyrio porphyrio), the red duck (Netta rufina), the lagoon eagle (Circus aeruginosus), the white carib fumarel (Chlidonias hybrida) and the black-tailed zampullin (Podiceps nigricollis).
