Waterfowl are numerous and the forests of the warm valleys are filled with song-birds and birds of beautiful plumage.
Waders and waterfowl are far less abundant, and those occurring are nearly all migratory forms which visit the peninsula of India - the only important exception being two kinds of solitary snipe and the red-billed curlew.
Three species of globally threatened waterfowl were observed in the area.
Sadly, there were no gulls or other waterfowl present this day.
Southward, the Danube encircles a vast fen, tenanted only by waterfowl and herds of half-wild swine, while the plain which extends to the north-east and east only grows fertile at some distance inland.