The most abundant and regular winter visitors are the ducks, INTRODUCTION BIRD GROUPS OF KEENJHAR LAKE waders or shore birds, and the gulls and terns. Piscivorous or fish eating Plovers The bird fauna of Sindh comprises of 419 species Kites Babblers Grebes There are two types of migrants. COMMON BIRDS whereas 667 species of birds have been reported birds including have a distinctive ‘run-stop-tilt’ from Pakistan. Most birds can be expected to be Marsh Harriers Sunbirds Pelicans Hydrological Data of Keenjhar Lake 1. Local Migrants moving within the local biomes of the forward-run action as they feed, found near water (wetlands) and are called Ospreys Bushchats Carmorants Herons, Egrets, Cormorants, Snake region. Tufted ducks dashing a little way to snatch up waterbirds. Some birds show their tendency to Outlet K.B Feeder Lower Cuckoos Bee-eaters Flamingos bird, Brahminy Kite, Pallas’s fish eagle, Migratory Resident a worm or insect, then pausing live in the desert areas and are called as Desert Swifts Drongos Herons and Bitterns Pelicans, Osprey, Kingfishers, Storks, are lively, feeding birds whilst some can be seen more in and around Area under 38sq.miles(24320 acres) White pelican Garganey Little grebe Pheasant-tailed Jacana Lake Swallows Crows Ibises and Spoonbills 2. True Migrants moving seasonally especially when during the day, while to look for more. the forest and are termed as Forest birds, and Gulls, and Terns. Dalmatian pelican Shoveller Little cormorant Redwattled lapwing Pigeons Prinias Ducks temperature drops in winter. Millions of migrants move from pochards tend to feed some would like to wade on the muddy shore or Storage 0.508 MAF Doves Warblers Morhens/Waterhens their breeding sites located in the northern region to their Large cormorant Common pochard Purple heron Blackwinged stilt on the sea coast and or called as Waders or Capacity at night and sleep by Parrots Wagtails Coots feeding sites located in the southern region where temperature Flamingos and Shovellers, Swallows Grey heron White eyed Pochard Litle green heron River tern Shorebirds. Usable 0.38 MAF day. Sandgrouses Sparrows Waders remains warm. Godwits, Snipes are mud like lakes in spring, as there are Large egret Tufted duck Pond heron Little tern Capacity Black bittern Common coot Cattle egret Most of the wetlands of Sindh are very much Mynas Weaverbirds Gulls and Terns Map I indicates the pattern of ducks migration from North to Avocets more insects there, but in Av. Depth of 7.0 m probers and Plovers Yellow bittern Grey plover Little egret degraded due to lack of management. Fortunatly, Water Shrikes South. sweep their delicate bills summer prefer fields. They fly Spoonbill Dunlin Night heron some of the wetlands have a kind of protection Larks are food pickers from the surface. sideways to find food by low and catch insects in the air. through having been declared as Wildlife Lenght of 19 km Flamingo Little stint Whitebreasted waterhen Embankments touch. Sanctuaries. 10 wetlands of Sindh have been Pintail Avocet Common moorhen designated as Ramsar Sites(Wetlands of Maximum 10.0 m Common teal Ruff Purple moorhen International importance) and those require Height of Many birds are migratory to some Map I Grebes, Coots, Moorhens, Stilts Embankments FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS Pratincoles, Swallows Mallard Herring gull immediate attention for their maintenance as degree and move around Jacanas and Ducks wade in deep water with their Gadwall Blackheaded gull such. Deposition of 4335 acre feet and Swifts Silt per year considerably as the water supply long legs, but pick insects Wigeon Whiskered tern Keenjhar Lake is a Wildlife Sanctuary meant for fluctuates. Resident birds (that are feed largely on plant matter are aerial feeders on from the water surface with Original 132 years Indus Flyway There is a wide variety of beaks in waterbirds most suited to their special way of feeding. Compiled & Edited by living in an area throughout the year) flying insects. the preservation of the wildlife of the area, Design life but some animal matter is also their fine bills. They also may THREATENED/ Jahangir Durranee particularly the waterbirds. It has also been spread out during the summer, in taken. snatch fish fry. & Muhammad Zafar Khan declared as a Ramsar Site (Wetland of Reduced life 87 years After silting search of suitable places for nest RARE BIRDS Illustrations by Dr. Ahsan Qureshi, International Importance) due to its ecological, building and feeding. Ospreys Jahangir Durrranee and wetland values. Life after 192 years & Ismail Mehdi construction of dive for fish, going head-first Curlews and Some threatened/rare birds have been Link canal Avocet Cormorant Greater Scaup Layout and designed by Nida Shams This booklet is about the birds mostly seen on Flamingo until they near the water, then Godwits recorded from the Keenjhar Lake. These Keenjhar Lake. It also gives some basic Main water Kalri Baghar Feeder are listed below: putting their legs forward and have very long bills. These Indus for All Programme information about the habits and status of some Supply source upper hitting the water, feet-first; fish large waders feed on soft Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) WWF - Pakistan species as recorded thereon. Source: Sindh Fisheries Department are grabbed in the feet and mud, probing deeply for Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) 606-607 Fortune Centre, Godwit Block-6 P.E.C.H.S., Main Shahra-e-Faisal, Karachi. Curlew Egret carried off to a perch, or to the Black-bellied Tern (Sterna melanogaster) Ibis lugworms, but curlews also Tel: 021-4544791-2 Fax: 021-4544790 A large number of birds migrate in winter from their breeding grounds in the Northern nest, which is usually at the top eat crabs and earthworms in Black-headed Ibis (Threskiornis www.foreverindus.org Hemisphere and enter Pakistan through the Indus Flyway to their wintering sites of a large tree. meadows. melanocephalus) located in the province of Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, and NWFP, such as dhands, Spoonbill White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) lakes, small and large sized ponds and Wildlife Protected Areas or other suitable Cotton Teal (Nettapus coromandelianus) Plover Stint habitats. Dalmatian pelican Stork .