Natural reserve of Srébarna

The natural reserve of Srébarna (in Bulgarian: bg ПрироденрезерватСребърна, transcribed Priroden rezervat Srebarna ) is a natural reserve in the North-East of the Bulgaria (Dobroudja Southerner), close to the village éponyme, to 18 in the west of Silistra and to 2 km in the south of the the Danube. It shelters the Lac Srébarna and its surroundings and is located on the Via Pontica, an important road of Migration of birds between Europe and Africa.

The reserve includes/understands 6 of grounds protected as well as a buffer zone from 5,4. The lake is not very deep, going from 1 to 3 Mr. It exists a small museum sheltering a collection of species of animals empaillées.

History

Though the lake Srébarna was studied a long time by foreign biologists, the first Bulgarian scientist to be interested in the area is Aleksi Petrov, which visits the reserve in 1911. In 1913 all southernmost Dobroudja is incorporated in the Romania; it will be returned to Bulgaria in 1940. Petrov then summarizes its studies of the area, and more precisely its birds.

The area is declared natural reserve national in 1948 and is a site of Ramsar since 1975. The reserve is added to the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO in 1983.

Legends

There are several legends on the origin of the name of the lake. One tells that it is in honor of a Khan named Srébiste , killed in the area during a battle against the Petchenègues, another of a boat full with Argent ( srébro into Bulgarian), and another (most probable) of the reflections of full the the Moon on the lake the night.

Flora and fauna

There are several species Hydrophyte S around the lake, of which the common Roseau. The reserve shelters 67 species of plants, some in danger of extinction apart from Srébarna.

One also finds there 39 species of Mammifère S, 21 Reptile and Amphibien S, and 10 species of Poisson, but the reserve is especially famous for the 179 species of Oiseau X which there nest, of which the curly Pélican, the Cygne tuber, the Greylag goose, several species of Canard, the Busard of the reeds, the Throat-blue with mirror, of the family members Paridae , the Héron and the Cormoran.

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