Walvis Bay wetland
| Walvis Bay Wetland Walvis Bay Lagoon |
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 Flamingos in the lagoon |
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | southern africa | |
| Geographical location | 23 ° 0 ′ S , 14 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| surface | 126 km² | |
The Walvis Bay wetland ( English Walvis Bay Ramsar Site or Walvis Bay Wetlands ), also Walvis Bay Lagoon (English Walvis Bay Lagoon ), is a wetland with a lagoon . It is located in Walvis Bay on Namibia's central Atlantic coast .
nature and environment
The area, which is under special protection under the Ramsar Convention , has an area of 12,600 hectares and is home to hundreds of thousands of birds of at least 40 species. There are also various dolphins , whales and rare fish such as the sunfish . According to the census in February 2017, the following bird species occur in the named numbers. A total of almost 119,000 birds were counted.
- Great White Pelican : 1108 animals (499 in 2015)
- Black-necked grebe : 0 (367 in 2015, 16,494 in 2013)
- Kapscharbe : 26,200 (407 in 2015)
- White-breasted cormorant : 38 (37 in 2015)
- Little Egrets : 81 (85 in 2015)
- Gray heron : 29 (30 in 2015)
- Cattle Egret : 3 (0 in 2015)
- Cuban flamingo : 18,609 (36,367 in 2015)
- Lesser Flamingo : 19,300 (20,192 in 2015)
- other flamingos: 963 (29,025 in 2015)
- Capents : 616 (5055 in 2015)
- Graukopfkasarka : 7 (14 in 2015)
- Cape Shoveler : 6 (0 in 2015)
- Wat - and shorebirds: 42,985 , including sickle beach runner 16,289 (41,199 in 2015, including sickle beach runner 31094)
- Gulls and terns : 8,987 , including common tern 2542 (12,340 in 2015, including common tern 7766)
- Oystercatchers : 0 (4 in 2015)
- Redshank : 0 (1 in 2015)
- Odin's Chickens : 35 (60 in 2015)
See also
Web links
- Official Ramsar site wetland (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walvis Bay. The Cardboard Box Travel Shop. Retrieved February 11, 2015
- ↑ a b Walvis Bay summer bird count February 2017. African Waterbird Census, March 2, 2017.