Mehman (lake)

The lake is located two kilometers far from the right bank of the Kura river. The lake periodically dries up.^[3] It lies at a height of 7 meters^[4] below sea level.^[5] The surface of the basin area of the lake is 12 km^2[4] or 15 km².^[6] Dimensions - 8 by 4 km,^[4] according to other sources 1.7 by 1.3 km.^[6] The maximum depth is 1.5 m,^[4] while on 85% of the lake area, the depth is 0.5 - 0.7 m.^[6]

During the drying up of Aggol in 1943, the strongest specimens of nutria that lived in the lake, settled in Mehman lake.^[7]

The lake is inhabited by 34 species of plankton.^[4] There are populations of pike, carp, bream, and pike perch.^[4]

In May–June 1954, the expedition of K. Gambarov observed a mixed nesting colony, with white-tailed lapwing rare for Azerbaijan.^[8] Although the expedition did not identify bird nests, observations suggested that the white-tailed lapwing is likely to nest here. In the colony, in addition to these birds, were also common terns, black terns, barnacle terns, black-headed gulls, prairie beetles, and stilt.^[4][9]