Avian Diversity of Jiwani Coastal Wetlands, Pakistan
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Wetlands are valuable ecosystems that occupy about 6% of the world’s land surface. Natural wetlands in Pakistan covering approximately 10% of the total land area of the country. This book helps in identification, ecology and population of waterbirds along. Jiwani Coastal Wetlands that is an internationally well known wetlands and declared as Ramsar Site on 5th October, 2001. Located along Gawater Bay arround the delta of the Dasht River, a very significant area of mangrove forests extending westward to the Iranian frontier, contiguous with Iran’s Gawater Bay and Hur-e-Bahu Ramsar site. Number of birds species recorded were 112; representing 16 orders and38 families with a total count of 15,469 that comprise, 79 species as migratory and 33 were resident. Out of 79 visitor species, 54 species were winter visitor, 11 summer visitor, 10 were irregular year round visitor, and three species were vagrant.Похожие книги
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