MYANMAR is known as one of the countries with the richest bird diversity and the highest number of bird species found among Southeast Asian nations. Among these species, 12 endangered bird species seasonally take hibernation at the Moeyungyi Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Moeyungyi Wildlife Sanctuary hosts water birds like darters, black-headed ibis, storks, and endangered bird species such as crested serpent eagle, plain-backed sparrow and black bulbul. Especially in winter, the water birds and other bird species reside in the sanctuary.
The survey is conducted on the resident bird and migratory bird population yearly, and also the wetland and ecosystem. Depending on the survey, it can record the bird species in the lake, conduct conservation activities in the wetland ecosystem and study the endangered species including the relationship between the nature of migratory and resident water birds and the wetland ecosystem.
In December 2024, it found 20,232 birds of 115 bird species in the wildlife sanctuary and its vicinity areas. Moreover, it recorded the whistling ducks, northern pintail, garganey and Asian openbill in Moeyungyi Lake and its surrounding areas. However, the digits show a decline in bird populations to 644 birds of four bird species compared to the previous year. There were 20,232 birds of 115 bird species — 3,702 birds of 30 migratory bird species, 8,987 birds of 19 domestic bird species and 7,513 birds of 66 land bird species. — Thitsa (MNA)/KTZH
