Lake Işıklı
The lake lies at an altitude of 821 m and its area is 73 square kilometres. Its waters fed by streams are used for irrigation for the surrounding agricultural lands and the lake is also an important fishing and aquaculture center at regional scale.
Lake Işıklı is an important site for breeding waterbirds and large numbers of wintering wildfowl. It has been assessed as an Important Bird Area. Some of the species that breed or migrate through Lake Işıklı are; greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons), red-crested pochard (Netta rufina), common pochard (Aythya ferina), ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca), squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus), common coot (Fulica atra), gull-billed tern (Sterna nilotica), whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida).
References
- ^ Işıklı Lake, BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet.
External links
- Images of Lake Işıklı (in Turkish)