Table 2. Details of waterbird species recorded across 35 reservoirs during the study period in Tigray National Regional State.Common names follow that of IOC format;*species recorded in/at the perimeter of the reservoirs thus are not water specialist birds;§number of reservoirs the species was recorded from;††conservation status designation by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Near Threatened (NT), Vulnerable (VU), Critically Endangered (CR) and Least Concern (LC) (IUCN, 2019)