Marbled teal      Marmaronetta angustirostris 

One of the birds is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List it's an elegant bird having a brown body dappled dark and cream with dark oval patch around eye. This bird breed in central and southern areas of Iraq it could seen near the rivers, lakes and marshes. spread after the breeding season to different parts of Iraq is endemic in ponds and marshes, feeding on small seeds and invertebrates. This species is exposed to many threats of the destruction of spawning areas and feeding areas in the marshes and other habitats, overfishing by firearms, fishing nets and vulnerability to toxins that are intended for fish

   Photos was taken in summer birds surveys in Babylon governorate, AL-Escandria / AL- Qadiriya site summer years 2011 - 2012 

  Marbled teal juvenile 

  Flaying  marbled teal 

Common snipe  Gallinago  gallinago

One of the winter visitors birds in Iraq, it could Seen on the banks of the rivers, lakes and marshes and wet grassland crouched in the muddy areas with short bushes near water, that are a good hideout 

photo was taken in one of winter birds survey on the banks of AL- Dagharah river in AL- Diwaniyah governorate winter of 2011

Black-crowned Night Heron  Nycticorax  nycticorax 

 

 one of the breeding birds in wide range in Iraq seen in the open land during day its habitat is rivers, lakes and marshes with tree and dense vegetation nest in reeds or trees mostly seen hunting fish in the early morning we can see many of this birds around the fish lakes

This photo show adult Black-crowned Night Heron near fish lakes in AL-Musayib / Babylon governorate spring 2012