Ornithological aspects on the swamp Herghelie – Mangalia (Romania)

• Main Author: GACHE Carmen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CITDD Publishing House 2005
• Subjects: Herghelie Swamp; birds’ monitoring; human influence; Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology; GN301-674; Science; Q; Science (General); Q1-390; Olor; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/751bda82b519414785322860c70c36ad

This ornithological notice present information on the avifauna recorded in the swamp Herghelie – Mangalia beginning with the 1998’s summer. We identified 132 species of birds. The reedbeds cover about 35% of the swamp’s surface, offering good conditions for the breeding season (Ixobrychus minutus, Botaurus stellaris, Cygnus olor, Himantopus himantopus, Recurvirostra avosetta and Sterna hirundo) but also for migration period. The breeding population is low due the high level of the human pressure. Due the presence of sulphurous sources and peat bed, the water is not freezing during the winter, transforming this territory in an important wintering site in the southeastern Dobroudja. Interesting is also the presence in this area during the winter of some summer visitors’ species for Romania like: Phalacrocorax pygmeus, Botaurus stellaris and Rallus aquaticus.