In collaboration with the Ornithology Research Center of Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMÜ) and the eleventh Regional Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, roughly 160,000 waterbirds had been detected within the Kızılırmak Delta in northern Türkiye this winter, based on a report Sunday.
Associate professor Kiraz Erciyas Yavuz, a workers member of the OMÜ Ornithology Research Center, advised Anadolu Agency (AA) that the midwinter waterbird rely is performed concurrently worldwide in January, February and March yearly.
Yavuz, who acknowledged that these counts are carried out by the Wetlands Protection and Monitoring Unit positioned within the Netherlands, famous that the rely is carried out when migration actions have stopped.
She defined that the rely goals to find out the distribution of the chicken inhabitants.
“In other words, we want to determine where each species is located. As part of the global count organization, we are conducting the count in Türkiye under the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. As the OMÜ Ornithology Research Center, we are responsible for the wetlands in the Black Sea Region,” Yavuz stated.
Pointing out that the Kızılırmak Delta is among the 37 wetlands within the Black Sea Region, she additionally underscored excessive species range and waterbird rely within the space.
“This year, we detected that approximately 160,000 waterbirds wintered in the Kızılırmak Delta,” she stated.
“We do not count other migratory birds in this period. We count them in different projects,” she added.
“This number includes ducks, coots, shorebirds, herons and egrets. We have a set point, and we observe and determine the waterbird population in the area by conducting observations from the same point every year,” famous Yavuz.
Furthermore, she listed the commonest species they detected this yr because the green-headed duck, coot and customary snipe.
“We detected 57 species of waterbirds wintering in the Kızılırmak Delta,” she knowledgeable.
She additionally acknowledged that roughly 2 million waterbirds are detected yearly in about 160 wetlands all through the nation.
Indicating that the variety of birds spending winter within the Kızılırmak Delta varies between 70,000 and 200,000 from yr to yr, Yavuz stated, “The movement of waterbirds wintering in Türkiye depends on how the weather is in the north.”
“If the weather is harsh in the north, the birds need to move south. In that case, we see more species and a higher number of birds, but in milder years, the birds do not prefer long migrations. Therefore, we observe fewer birds some years.”
Emphasizing that the Kızılırmak Delta is among the many wetlands with the best variety of species detected within the midwinter waterbird counts in Türkiye, she famous that 7% of the species and inhabitants seen inside the nation are detected within the Kızılırmak Delta.
“Although Eğirdir and Beyşehir lakes are much larger and waterbirds are seen more in those areas when we compare the size of the Kızılırmak Delta with these lakes, we see that the delta hosts a significant number of waterbirds,” she concluded.
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