Lake Çavuşçu (also known as Lake Ilgın) is a fresh water lake in
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
The lake is situated in
Ilgın
Ilgın is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,636 km2, and its population is 53,489 (2022). Its elevation is .
Etymology
The name ''ılgın'' comes from the former Byzantine name of the city, Lageina.
Compos ...
ilçe (district) of
Konya Province
Konya Province ( tr, ), in southwest Central Anatolia, is the largest province of Turkey. The Province, provincial Capital (political), capital is the city of Konya. Its traffic code is 42.
The Kızılören solar power plant in Konya will be ...
at . Its elevation with respect to sea level is about . Its surface area is .
The lake is fed by Battal and Çebişli creeks.
Fauna
The birds of the lake are the following:
Moustached warbler
The moustached warbler (''Acrocephalus melanopogon'') is an Old World warbler in the genus '' Acrocephalus''. It breeds in southern Europe and southern temperate Asia with a few breeding in north-west Africa. It is partially migratory. South-we ...
,
whiskered tern
The whiskered tern (''Chlidonias hybrida'') is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''khelidonios'', "swallow-like", from ''khelidon'', "swallow". The specific ''hybridus'' is Latin for ''hybrid''; Peter Simon Palla ...
,
black tern,
common tern,
stork
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. They belong to the family called Ciconiidae, and make up the order Ciconiiformes . Ciconiiformes previously included a number of other families, such as herons an ...
,
red-crested pochard,
greylag goose
The greylag goose or graylag goose (''Anser anser'') is a species of large goose in the waterfowl family Anatidae and the type species of the genus ''Anser''. It has mottled and barred grey and white plumage and an orange beak and pink legs. A ...
.
Among the fishes of the lake
cobitis turcica
''Cobitis turcica'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae.
It is found only in Turkey.
Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes.
It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also t ...
is an endemic species of Turkey.
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References
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