Editing Lake Chad (section)

===Birds===
The lake has been designated an [[Important Bird Area]] (IBA) by [[BirdLife International]].<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url= https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lake-chad-iba-chad|title= Lake Chad |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2024|website= BirdLife Data Zone|publisher= BirdLife International|access-date= 2024-10-30}}</ref> It is permanently or seasonally inhabited by hundreds of species of birds such as [[northern shoveler]], [[Egyptian goose]] and [[marabou stork]].<ref name=w2/> It is an important wintering ground for European [[anatidae]] and wading birds. There are raptors such as [[steppe eagle]] and [[booted eagle]] on the lakeshore,<ref name=tgd1>{{cite web |author1=Emma Martin |author2=Neil Burgess |title=Lake Chad Flooded Savanna |url=https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/lake-chad-flooded-savanna/ |website=www.oneearth.org |accessdate=2023-07-15 |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715052429/https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/lake-chad-flooded-savanna/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and more than one million [[Ruff (bird)|ruff]] can be observed on the lake at one time.<ref name=4j>{{cite report |last1=Keith |first1=J. O. |last2=Plowes |first2=D. C. H. |title=Considerations of Wildlife Resources and Land Use in Chad |date=March 1997 |page=3 |url=https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABZ699.pdf |docket=SD Technical Paper No. 45 |publisher=Office of Sustainable Development, Africa Bureau, USAID |archive-date=2023-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618010146/https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABZ699.pdf |language=en}}</ref>