Original Research Article I Volume 11 I Issue 2 I 2023

Checklist of the Bird Species from the Ruzizi Delta, Northern End of Lake Tanganyika, in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Bashonga Bishobibiri Alexis; Eric Sande; Charles Kahindo; Gaspard Ntakimazi

Biolife, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2023, pp 115-129

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8010927

Abstract:

The checklist of bird species from the Ruzizi Delta in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was investigated from April 2019 until August 2021 at five sites in the Rusizi Burundian Delta and five sites in the Ruzizi Congolese Delta. Each site was visited three times a year during the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. The investigation was conducted by direct observation on transect counts, point counts and on road bird counting, using binoculars and a telescope. Travel was facilitated by the motorized fiberglass boat and the double cabin field vehicle of the Centre for Research in Hydrobiology (CRH) in Uvira, DRC. The Ruzizi Delta includes terrestrial dry areas in wooded and tree-steppe, marshes, rivers, ponds and the northern shoreline of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura (Burundi) and Uvira (DRC). On the coast and on the ponds, the investigation sometimes resorted to traveling in non-motorized canoes to inform us, among other things, of illegal exploitation in supposedly protected areas. At the end of our investigations, we have drawn up the list of 18 orders, 84 families and 490 species of birds that we present in this publication.

Keywords:

Checklist of bird species; Order of bird species; Family of bird species; Bird point counts; Transect counts of birds.

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Article Dates:

Received: 18 April 2023; Accepted: 30 May 2023; Published online: 6 June, 2023.

How To Cite:

Bashonga Bishobibiri Alexis, Eric Sande, Charles Kahindo, & Gaspard Ntakimazi. (2023). Checklist of the Bird Species from the Ruzizi Delta, Northern End of Lake Tanganyika, in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Biolife, 11(2), 115–129. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8010927