Muizenberg Important Bird Area

The Muizenberg Important Bird Area comprises a 150 ha wetland area, including an intermittent shallow lake (Muizenberg) and smaller pond (Kaya Fortuna). The site lies within the northern suburbs of Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, a constituent island nation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Dutch Caribbean. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports American coots. Common moorhens, pied-billed grebes and white-cheeked pintails breed there and American flamingos feed there. The 64 ha Muizenberg lake has been recognised as a wetland of international importance by designation as a Ramsar site.[1]

Pied-billed grebes breed in the IBA

References
  1. "Muizenberg, Curaçao". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2020.

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