Some Bird Species Breeding in Wetland Sites at Zalingei, Sudan

Abdallah Mohamed Abdallah Ahmed Korssi,Dawi Musa Hamad

doi:10.11648/j.jb.20190301.16

Abstract

This study was carried out on breeding bird species at Zalingei area, Sudan. The objective of this study is to document the bird species breeding at Zalingei area. The Direct observation and road count were used to data collection between April to November 2013and April to November2014. The study area was patrolled by car and on foot from7:00am to7:00pm, Field binoculars (Samsunglens HD, Tianzhufeng, 8×40,168ft) and Digital camera Samsung model (DV150F/DV151F/DV155F) were used for observation of birds identification of birds were made using East and Central African birds guide (Williams, 1991 and Sinclair and Peter, 2010). Coordinates of wetlands was done using Global Positioning System(GPS). Total of 37 species, out of 121 species were recorded breeding during the study period. They were distributed in the four sites, in Zalingei 32 species were recorded breeding. 28 species were recorded breeding in Terij and W. Azoom (23species). But the lower breeding species were seen; (14species) in Shawa.

Highlights

The avifauna of Sudan includes 938 species [10]
Eight water pools and two small lakes were established in the dry season, these pools are: Adam-gola, Fawzei, Hamidia, Saa4, Tarei, Gugoldonga, Rejl-aldafa, and Sarei-olmaly
The diversity index showed that the study areas had diverted breeding individual. 2013 was more variation in the number of breeding individual different number of species than 2014

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Introduction

The avifauna of Sudan includes 938 species [10]. In (2000) the Higher Council for Environment and Natural. Resources (HCENR), recorded 931 species of birds in the. The number of species of birds of registered for Sudan following the WICE criterias is [16]. A few records were made in the Darfur. Make survey on the birds of North and Central Darfur. [10] studied the Morphometric, wing loading and food of Western Darfur Birds. [11] made the corvidae in the. Sudan Republic with special reference to Darfur. Pointed that the Environmental changes in Western. Darfur over half a century and their effects on the selection bird species. West- Darfur, Sudan, with the description of Tropodaiptomus asimi.

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