Pink Flamingos from Raz Al Khor in Dubai
With The UAE's accession, Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary (RAKWS) has become the Nation's first Ramsar wetland site. RAKWS is located at the head of the 14Km long watercourse known as Dubai Creek, and covers an area of 620 hectares featuring sabkhas saline flats, intertidal mudflats and mangroves, small lagoons and pools, and a few tiny islands which lies at the interface between the Persian Gulf and the Al Awir Desert.
During winter, RAKWS supports more than 20,000 water birds of 67 species and acts as a critical staging ground for the wintering birds of the East African-West Asian Flyway. The site hosts more than 500 species of flora and fauna and is one of the best-managed arid zone wetlands in the region. Located within Dubai city, it is an important eco-tourism destination and receives increasing numbers of local and international visitors.
The importance of RAKWS is beyond its aesthetic value. It serves as a beacon on the significance of biodiversity as a life supporting system for humanity's continual existence and its being an integral part of the cultural and traditional heritage of the UAE.
![Northern pintail , pintail [4] ( Anas acuta ) - a species of large, migratory bird water family Anatidae (Anatidae).<br />
It lives in the northern parts of Eurasia and North America. Flights in March - April and September - November. Wintering in the south-west Europe, North Africa, South Asia and Central and South America. In the valley of the Nile are the most numerous species of wintering birds. In Poland, few nests (mainly in the north of the country), the few individuals overwinter.<br />
Bird with distinctive silhouette - long slender neck and a long tail. Male larger than the female, with a distinctive, long central wheelhouse, lessons on the fly. In breeding plumage the head and upper neck dark brown, front neck and crop white. From the neck running tab white, sharply distinguishable from a brown, reaching almost to the crown. Back of the neck, sides and back gray with fine transverse striations black. White belly and chest, beak and legs sinoniebieskie. Zielonorude mirror with a narrow white stripe on the edge. Female gray-brown with brown spots and a whitish belly. Mirror green-purple, not conspicuous as in the male. Male in a period of rest and juveniles alike. Kaczor has only slightly darker back.<br />
Pintails, especially females, from crosswords can be distinguished by a gray bow and a pointed tail. Males can be recognized deaf "Kryk" and whistling, and the females after the guttural](https://photos.smugmug.com/Birds/Raz-Khor-Wildlife-Sanctuary-in/i-SR6Zf8v/0/KczLKPctwx4rT5kJtQ4pRnst5Q593KwtGdd77ShWQ/Th/Mallard%20from%20Ras%20Al%20Khor%20Wildlife%20Sanctuary%207-Th.jpg)
