Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin (ISSN 0178 – 6288) . Number 146, February 2017, pp. 1-25. | Page 12

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The future for the beautiful pink birds may not be entirely rosy due to problems
at a key breeding site (Simpson, 2012).
"The birds here are pretty much linked with Lake Urmia in north-west Iran,
which covers 483,000 hectares and contains their traditional and known breeding
grounds," said Mr. Hyland. "The salinity there has risen so much and the water
levels h