Wetlands of Dinder National Park

There are more than 40 mayas (wetlands) in Dinder National Park occupying low lands. Due to the variety and nature of Dinder’s mayas, about 250 species of birds are identified, many of them are migrants. The migrants include yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis), woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus), yellow and European wagtail (Motacilla spp). The Park is also used by intra-Africa migrants e.g. Abdim’s stork (Ciconia abdimii), spur-wing goose (Plectropterus gambensis ) Numbers of waterbirds in DNP is influenced by seasonality and yearly climatic change. Drought that struck the area in 2010 affected the abundance of waterbirds considerably. Most of the mayas were not filled with water during the rainy season; some of them dried out early in the dry season with a subsequent decrease in the number and diversity of waterbirds visiting the Park)  

Ras Amir wetland in DNP