Nature reserve ”Syabersky” description and photo - Russia - Leningrad region: Luga district (Topic)

Nature reserve “Syabersky” description and photo - Russia - Leningrad region: Luga district. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Syabersky Nature Reserve was established in 1976 and is located 35 km west of Luga. The area of the reserve is 11.4 thousand hectares, including 2 thousand hectares of lakes.

The reserve was created in order to preserve the lake-river network, kame landscape, lowland swamps, habitats of large animals, rare plant species ... The reserve is promising for family recreation, ecological tourism, exclusive and amateur fishing.

The territory of the Syabersky reserve occupies the place of a water-glacial kame relief, which is a few sandy hills with depressions separating them, some of them are occupied by small and large lakes: Zaverduzhie, Syabero, Gorneshenskoe, Peluga, Lebevoe and others. The main area of the reserve is occupied by pine forests. On the tops of the hills there are heather-lichen pine forests with southern pine-forest species, relics of the post-glacial steppe period. Lingonberry-green moss pine forests, pine forests with sinuous oats are also widespread. In lower places and on the shores of lakes, there are mainly damp dwarf shrub-sphagnum pine forests with molin and wild rosemary, spruce woods. Around the lakes, in the valleys between the hills, in the floodplains of rivers and streams, there are bogs, which are represented by dwarf-sphagnum pine forests on 4-5-meter deep peat. Lakeside and floodplain bogs are represented by black alder forests, birch forests, sedge-hypnum communities, willow forests covered with sphagnum eutrophic mosses with orchids. The reserve has 545 species of vascular plants, 90 species of mosses. The local lakes are home to pike, bream, perch, roach, bleak and other fish.

The reserve is inhabited by such rare bird species as black and white storks, great bittern, osprey, black kite, white-tailed eagle, marsh harrier, lesser spotted eagle, coot, moorhen, corncrake.

The alternation of clean reaches with extensive shallow waters overgrown with aquatic vegetation provides an optimal forage base for many species of lamellar bills. Large mergansers, whooper swans, stop at Syabero during the autumn migration.

Mammals such as kutora, muskrat, water vole, badger, beaver, fox, raccoon dog, brown bear, wolf, pine marten live here. European mink, polecat, wild boar, ermine, elk.

Specially protected objects include pine forests on watersheds, the lake system, rare plant species: Dortmann's lobelia, flexible caulina, some types of orchids, Tatar groundwort, marsh ashtray, green-flowered resin; rare species of animals: great bittern, lesser spotted eagle, black and white storks, corncrake, osprey, roe deer.

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