YANGON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- More than 15,000 migratory birds spanning 30 species have come to the Indawgyi Lake in northern Myanmar's Kachin State to spend the winter, an official said on Thursday.

"The number of migratory birds wintering in the lake this year was up a little, compared to over 11,000 migratory birds arriving in the lake in the same period a year earlier," U Maung Win, administrator of the Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, told Xinhua on Thursday.

The official said the lake was included in two of nine major flyways used by migratory birds worldwide for wintering -- the East Asian-Australian Flyway and the Central Asian Flyway.

"The arrivals of migratory birds here annually start in early October, and they leave here the following May," he said, adding that local authorities were taking various measures including awareness activities to protect the wintering birds.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated Indawgyi Lake as a Man and the Biosphere Reserve among its world network of 669 reserves in June 2017. Enditem

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