Sultansazlığı National Park

Coordinates: 38 ° 20 ′ 1 ″  N , 35 ° 15 ′ 58 ″  E

Sultansazlığı National Park​

Turkey

The Sultansazlığı National Park is a nature reserve with a large and rare bird population in Turkey .

Location and nature

The national park is located 70 km southwest of Kayseri in the districts of Develi , Yahyalı and Yeşilhisar . It has an area of ​​24,523 hectares, with the swamp area varying from 8,000 to 13,000 hectares depending on the season. The area is largely covered by reeds and other plants. The salty Yay Lake, which is about 3,650 hectares in size with an average water depth of 1.50 meters, contains the two islands Kızılcıkmadenotu and Bozot and houses red crustaceans , which are the food for the colonies of the greater flamingo .

history

In 1971 the area was placed under protection. In 1988 it was declared a nature reserve and in 1994 it was finally recognized as one of the first five Turkish protected areas within the Ramsar Convention . In 2006 the area was declared a national park .

Bird species

According to a study by Nilgül Karadeniz, published by the Spanish multidisciplinary research group at the University of Valencia SEHUMED ( Sede para el Estudio de los Humedales Mediterráneos , for example: Seat for the Study of the Mediterranean Wetlands ), many species of waterfowl breed in a northern freshwater area . Among other things, the following were counted:

• Dwarf shark (200 pairs), black heron (70 pairs), brown ibis (75 pairs),
• Spoonbill (10 pairs), Gadfly (20 pairs), Marmelente (5 pairs),
• Red-crested pochard (400 pairs), cranes (20 pairs), avocets (15 pairs),
• Whitebeard tern (400 pairs), shelduck (in summer 2283), great crested grebe ,
• Little bittern , gray goose (15 pairs), teal ,
• Coot , stilt (200 pairs), black-headed gull (90 pairs) and
• Common Tern (30 pairs)

Web links

• Info (english)
• Information about the national park (PDF; 490 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://sehumed.uv.es/revista/numero13/SEHUMED_colecc13.PDF
2. ↑ Milli Parklar ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ page 109 (PDF; 490 kB)