Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary
Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary | |
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IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area) | |
Location | Mohnyin Township, Kachin State, Myanmar |
Coordinates | 25°07′N 96°22′E / 25.117°N 96.367°E |
Area | 814.99 km2 (314.67 sq mi)[1] |
Established | 2004 |
Official name | Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary |
Designated | 2 February 2016 |
Reference no. | 2256[2] |
Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary is a
During a survey in the winter of 2004, both
In 2012, an Indian hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus) population was discovered in a grassland northeast of the lake.[5]
Since 2013, Baer's pochard (Aythya baeri), rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis), sarus crane (Antigone antigone), woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus), lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus), spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis), greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga), cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), Pallas's fish eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus), wood snipe (Gallinago nemoricola), black-bellied tern (Sterna acuticauda) and red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri) were sighted in the sanctuary.[6]
It also provides habitat for Burmese peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia formosa), elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata), Asian forest tortoise (Manouria emys), Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis), Asiatic softshell turtle (Amyda cartilaginea) and 93 fish species.[7]
During a herpetological survey, the Indawgyi bent-toed gecko (
See also
References
- ^ a b World Database on Protected Areas (2019). "Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary". Protected Planet.
- ^ a b "Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ Beffasti, L.; Gallanti, V., eds. (2011). "Indawgyi Lake". Myanmar Protected Areas: Context, Current Status and Challenges (PDF). Milano, Yangon: Istituto Oikos, Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association. pp. 36–37.
- ^ Tordoff, A. W.; Appleton, T.; Eames, J. C.; Eberhardt, K.; Htin Hla; Khin Ma Ma Thwin; Sao Myo Zaw; Saw Moses; Sein Myo Aung (2007). "Avifaunal Surveys in the Lowlands of Kachin State, Myanmar, 2003–2005" (PDF). Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society. 55 (2): 235–306.
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- ^ Zöckler, C.; Win, L. (2016). The Survey of the Bird Fauna of the Indawghy Lake in February 2016 (PDF). Cambridge: Fauna & Flora International.
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- S2CID 198269335.
External links
- BirdLife International (2019). "Important Bird Areas factsheet: Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary and surroundings".