54 Citations
The database includes records of 143 bird species at the Syvash wetland in 1998. Syvash is one of the unique wetlands of South-Eastern Europe, which has international significance as a place of migratory stops of waders on the Afro-Eurasian flyways. It is characterized by the large size of the territory (over 2,600 km2), rugged coastline and its long length (over 3,100 km). A high degree of landscape diversity (shallow waters, desalinated bays, floodplains, swamps, reed thickets, coastal cliffs, islands, spits, steppe areas, rice fields, fish breeding ponds, industrial sediments, agrocenoses) creates the necessary feeding and protective conditions for birds. The construction of two dams divided Sivash into three separate parts, which differ in hydrochemical conditions. The counts at the Syvash in August 1998 were granted by the Netherlands' Ministry of Agriculture, Nature management and Fisheries and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MATRA Fund / Program International Nature Management (PIN)).