The Lake of Merzouga or Lake Dayet Srij
A few miles away from the village of Merzouga is Lake Dayet Srij. It is also called the flamingos’ lake rightly as it has been dry for a long time, but welcomes today a wide variety of birds, including an amazing colony of greater flamingos…
We invite you to go there in the evening to see the sunset in a very relaxing atmosphere and enjoy the magical reflection of the big dune on the surface of the lake.
Lake of Merzouga: biodiversity
Lake Dayet Srij of Merzouga is famous for its high biodiversity. This nature reserve includes many species among which you can find:
- Greater short-toed lark
- Sand martin
- Tawny pipit
- Greater hoopoe-lark
- Tree pipit
- Red-throated pipit
- Western yellow wagtail
- White wagtail
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Laughing dove
- Ruddy shelduck
- Black stork
- White stork
- Crowned sandgrouse
- Spotted sandgrouse
- Black tern
- Green sandpiper
- Common redshank
- Greater flamingo
- Ruff
- Temminck’s stint
- Little stint
- Northern lapwing
- Kentish plover
- Little ringed plover
- Collared pratincole
- Pied avocet
- Black-winged stilt
- Eurasian coot
- Common quail
- Barbary falcon
- Osprey
- Marbled duck
- Northern shoveler
- Little egret
This non-exhaustive list of identified species around Lake Merzouga is taken from the report entitled “Ornithological observations in Morocco”, conducted from March 20 to April 4, 2004, by Pierre Yésou & Martine South. Further information can be found at this address: Go-South