Survey of Birds in Microhabitats of National Park in Boujagh Wetland

Sensitive marine areas have attracted particular attention in biological management aspects because of having special ecological, economic, social and environmental traits. The present research tries to investigate the role of birds for identification of marine biological sensitive areas, as a case study the National Park in Boujagh wetland has been chosen. The method used in this study is an analytical- functional one which is done through selecting the one main criterion and five inferior criteria and after selecting all criteria by means of scoring method (ranking) all criteria would have quantitative value. Based on the above discussed methodology, the area was divided into 33500-ha parcels (Evaluation Unit of 2.2×2.2 kilometers grids). After field observation and interpretation of aerial photos and satellite images the characteristics of each parcel in the form of selected criteria have been analyzedand therefore the information layers were produced in GIS software. The results showed that the bird population in 57.58% of study units is less than 1000 birds and also 33.33% of studied units were in lack of biodiversity and 39.39% of the study units have three threatened species. Total identified birds in study area was 153 species, in which amongst them 21% of species are as Protected Species in National Environmental laws and at least two species belonged to the IUCN Red List.