Floods Destroy Breeding Place Of Birds

Sakumono (G/A), June 23, - The breeding season for water birds around the Sakumono Lagoon demarcated as an International Ramser Site has failed this year because of the flooding there, wildlife experts said today. This is because the birds have already laid their eggs and with the huge inflow of water, the eggs have either been destroyed or washed away. ''We will not have any new birds this season,'' Mrs Vivian Nuhu, Programme Officer of the Ghana Wildlife society, in charge of school and community education for the Sakumono and Densu Delta Ramser Sites, told the GNA. Mrs Nuhu said young birds which would be seen later in the year are those which have flown over 5,000 kilometres from Europe to Africa. She said the Sakumono Ramser site is known to accommodate seven types of exotic water birds which fly from Europe to Africa during certain times of the year. These are the Roseato Tern, Sandwich Tern, the Royal Tern, Avocet, Curlew sand piper, Sengal plover and White-face tree ducks. About 40 local species of water birds also breed around the Sakumono Ramser site.