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Event Title:
World Migratory Bird Day event at Nanthar Island and Mayyu Estuary
Event Date: 8th – 10th October 2021
Event Sites: Nanthar Island and Mayyu Estuary, Myanmar
Organizer:
Nature Conservation Society-Myanmar (NCS)
Participants:
Expected about 5000 local community members who living nearby Ramsar Site.
Summary:
Poster about Spoon-billed Sandpiper ©️ NCS
The Forest Department of Rakhine State, Nature Conservation Society-Myanmar (NCS) and local partner Rakhine Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (RBANCA) celebrated WMBD together at Nanthar Island and Mayyu Estuary Ramsar site in Myanmar. The site was designated as Flyway Network Site in 2018 and Ramsar Site in 2020. The site is supporting 5% global population of critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper and other threatened shorebirds as well as sea turtles.
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On 8th -9th October 2021, RBANCA team members and local forest department staff are installed four signboards (Height 3 ‘ x Length 6’) about Spoon-billed Sandpiper and other globally threatened species which are fully protection under the Conservation of Biodiversity and Protected Areas Law (2018) Myanmar. One signboard was installed at the Island and another three signboards at Angu Maw, Man Kyi Chaung and Kone Dan villages nearby Ramsar Site). On the event days, the team members distributed (Height 3’ x Length 2’) Spoon-billed Sandpiper information leaflets to villagers and tagged the posters at the grocery shops, markets and tea shops where many people visit. Moreover, the team handover five manual disinfected spray pumps for protection of the COVID-19 virus disease in the villages. When distributing the posters to villagers, the team members explained about the World Migratory Bird Day event and why it is important to conserve migratory waterbirds.
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| Table 1. WMBD_Count_Nanthar Island (10_10_2021) | |||
| Species | Scientific name | IUCN Status | Numbers |
| Little Cormorant | Phalacrocorax niger | LC | 5 |
| Lesser Adjutant Stork | Leptoptilos javanicus | VU | 5 |
| Lesser Whistling Duck | Denrocygna javanica | LC | 8 |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | LC | 1 |
| Great Egret | Casmerodus Albus/Ardea alba | LC | 7 |
| Intermediate Egret | Egretta intermedius | LC | 9 |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | LC | 63 |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | LC | 15 |
| Indian Pond Heron | Ardeola grayii | LC | 2 |
| Black-headed Ibis | Threskiornis melanocephalus | NT | 12 |
| Small Pratincole | Glareola lactea | LC | 18 |
| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | LC | 15 |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | LC | 5 |
| Greater Sandplover | Charadrius leschenaultii | LC | 35 |
| Lesser Sandplover | Charadrius mongolus | LC | 48 |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | LC | 83 |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | NT | 47 |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | LC | 31 |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | LC | 11 |
| Common Sandpiper | Tringa (Actitis) hypoleucos | LC | 3 |
| Common Redshank | Tringa tetanus | LC | 22 |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | LC | 6 |
| Red-necked/Little Stint | Calidris ruficollis/minutus | LC | 64 |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | LC | 4 |
| Brown-headed Gull | Larus brunnicephalus | LC | 7 |
| Gull-billed Tern | Sterna nilotica | LC | 9 |
| Little Tern | Sterna albifrons | LC | 14 |
| Greater Crested Tern | Sterna bergii | LC | 43 |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Sterna bengalensis | LC | 51 |
| Caspian Tern | Sterna caspia | LC | 1 |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | LC | 17 |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | LC | 7 |
| Total count | 668 | ||
Outcome:
Local community are aware of the World Migratory Bird Day event, this is the first time to hold the WMBD event at Nanthar Island and Mayyu Estuary. Moreover, local new media published the news about the WMBD and Nanthar Island includes globally threatened species information.
Check the event photos [here]
Prepared by Nature Conservation Society-Myanmar
