Lake Modła Nature Reserve, is located within the borders of the Protected Landscape Area "Belt of the coast west of Ustka". Lake Modła has the rank of a waterfowl refugeof European importance and constitutes an area of special protection for plant habitats. The reserve protects the nesting sites of many species of water birds and the vegetation characteristic of the fertile water body and its banks. There are 40 species of birds nesting here, which are a rarity in Polish ornithology: black-headed gull, common gull, mute swan, fisher, redshank, marsh harrier and meadow harrier, as well as bittern and quack. A rich vegetation cover is presented by common reed, scabious, willow and scrub communities, thus creating favorable conditions for breeding water and marsh birds. There are as many as 9 different types of habitats important from a European point of view: - swamp forests and forests, - acidophilous oaks, - lowland and mountain meadows used extensively, - valley depressions and bryophyte swamps, - oxbow lakes and other natural eutrophic water bodies, - transitional bogs and quaking bogs, - raised bogs with peat-forming vegetation (live), - raised bogs degraded but capable of natural and stimulated regression, - Molinia variegated meadows. Three rivers flow into the lake: the Pęplina, Węda and Pogorzeliczka. and the extremely charming, Potynia River flows out, which after 2.6km flows into the Baltic Sea.
10.01.2017
