Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary
Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary is a biosphere reserve in Myanmar, covering. It ranges in elevation from encompassing the surroundings of Indawgyi Lake in Mohnyin Township, Kachin State. It was gazetted in 2004, is recognized as an Important Bird Area and as one of the ASEAN Heritage Parks.
An area of comprising the lake and the surrounding lowland is a Ramsar site since February 2016.
During a survey in the winter of 2004, both resident and migratory birds were sighted on the lake and along Indawgyi River, including white-rumped vulture, slender-billed vulture, Himalayan vulture, lesser whistling duck, tufted duck, ferruginous pochard, gadwall, ruddy shelduck, Eurasian teal, northern pintail, greylag goose, Eurasian coot, little grebe, great crested grebe, little cormorant, purple heron, brown-headed gull, black-headed gull, wood sandpiper, Temminck's stint, black-winged stilt, grey-headed lapwing and glossy ibis.
In 2012, an Indian hog deer population was discovered in a grassland northeast of the lake.
Since 2013, Baer's pochard, rufous-necked hornbill, sarus crane, woolly-necked stork, lesser adjutant, spot-billed pelican, greater spotted eagle, cinereous vulture, Pallas's fish eagle, wood snipe, black-bellied tern and red-breasted parakeet were sighted in the sanctuary.
It also provides habitat for Burmese peacock softshell turtle, elongated tortoise, Asian forest tortoise, Amboina box turtle, Asiatic softshell turtle and 93 fish species.
During a herpetological survey, the Indawgyi bent-toed gecko was discovered and described in 2019.
