“ Flower farms are one of the orbit with lot of wetland . These heyday farms have an important and unusual role , because the Tingua depends on these high - productive scheme to subsist ” , articulate Dr. José Miguel Renjifo .
by Monica Vera , Florverde
You ’re all credibly thinking , “ Ok , this is a blog about a sustainable floriculture credentials scheme … so why are they speak about the Tingua ? And more to the percentage point , what is a Tingua ? ” Well , to answer your questions we have invited Dr. Luis Miguel Renjifo , Director of the Masters degree in Conservation and Biodiversity Usage at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and expert in chick to tell everyone about the Tingua . What a Tingua is , where it live and why we chose to name our blog after this dame .
Back in 2010 , the Florverde Farms Program with the technical support from the Antioquia Society of Ornithology and Bogota ’s Ornithological Association , take out a task called The Birds of the Flowers , with the purpose of train everyone involved in the heyday farming process in the Bogotá Savannah and Antioquia region about the other indweller with which they share their workspace : the birds . A team of 16 observers found 143 raspberry specie in 147 time of day of observation . 29 boreal migrants that breed in Canada or the US and pass the winter ( October to March ) in Colombia were included in the results , as well as 31 aquatic species from the Bogotá area . As a resolution , six environmental awareness and training workshops were organized for the Bogotá and Rionegro farms .
Spot - flank Gallinules in their home ground
So permit ’s take a tone at what Dr. Luis Renjifo tells us about the Tinguas !
FSF : Please recite us , what ’s a Tingua?Dr . Luis Miguel Rengifo : The position - flanked Gallinule ( Gallinula melanops ) – Tingua moteada in Spanish - is an aquatic bird that has a very particular distribution . It populate in natural and artificial wetland with low and dull botany on its shorelines . One of its race is circulate throughout South America ( for example Argentina , Brazil , & Chile ) , given that it is a Gallinule from the highlands . However , the speckle - flank Gallinule in Colombia only subsist in the highlands of the Boyacá - Cundinamarca area . I think if we research profoundly , we ’ll plausibly find that the Spot - flank Gallinule is believably an endemic disease of Colombia and could really be considered a unlike species from the Gallinules found in the South American continent simply due to its demand of different ecosystem . But , whether or not the situation - flanked Gallinule is an endemic of this country is not really the point here ; what is more pressing is that they ’re considered a critically endangered species . ( Renjifo et al.2002 . ) . Another interesting spot is that they like to live in the low temperature wetlands of the Cundinamarca and Boyacá neighborhood , specially the modest single you could see in flower farm where the water timbre is high . Another species of Gallinules is the Bogota Rail ( Rallus semiplumbeus ) , which is altogether endemic of Colombia . It also lives in little wetlands , but it has a mellow bionomic tolerance and that ’s why they can also be see in high tableland wetlands as well as natural flower farms if they have rush growing on their shoreline .
There ’s a third species call Blue Gallinule ( Porphyrula martinica ) which amount from the Lowlands of Scotland of Colombia . It ’s not a well - known migratory skirt because they come from the plane lands or the Magdalena Valley ; however , there are seasons when they come to the Bogota Savannah and other ones when they vanish again and probably go back to the plane lands . In fact , there are a lot more species , but the three mentioned are the most emblematic and threatened of the Gallinules .
Dr. Luis Miguel Renjifo enjoying nature
FSF : Are there any other thing that attract Gallinules to the wetlands in the efflorescence farms?Dr . Luis : Indeed , if there are no wetland , there wo n’t be any Gallinules . To date , they have lost almost 95 % of their home ground ; hence , the little amount of habitat left is very important to them . One of the areas that still have wetlands is the peak farms ; Thus , they have an significant and strange role give that they depend on these high - productive agriculture organisation to survive .
FSF : What can flower farms do to help protect Gallinules and keep their habitat?Dr . Luis : Basically keep the wetlands clean and pure whether they ’re natural or not , and produce aquatic botany , specially rush , on the shore ( Gallinules use this vegetation to work up their nests and regurgitate ) ; wetland with no vegetation on their shore are wetlands without opportunities for Spot - flanked Gallinules and other race .
FSF : Do activities like , The Birds of the Flowers , in certified farms help protect this species from extinction?Dr . Luis : Yes ! Flower growers can make a bragging difference to survival of the species . Obviously , for the vulgar flower grower , preserving wetland is n’t a priority , but if they reckon after these sphere by keeping them clear , reducing taint , planting plenty of aquatic vegetation on their shoring as well as some be adrift vegetation , it could act an important role in the Gallinule ’s survival of the fittest . After all we humans want to learn to partake our habitat with nature .
A want of born home parks throughout the area where these species are distributed , specially the Spot - flanked Gallinules , means that blossom farms are one of the few options that they have in club to survive .
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