Dolný les is a national nature reserve in the Slovak municipality of

Vysoká pri Morave Vysoká pri Morave (german: Hochstädten / Hochstetten; hu, Nagymagasfalu) is a village north of Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia. It is situated in the Malacky District, Bratislava Region on the border to Austria Austria, , ba ...

in the

Malacky District The Malacky District ( sk, okres Malacky) is a district in the Bratislava Region of western Slovakia. It lies north from Bratislava on Záhorská nížina lowland. Its current borders have been established in 1996. The administrative seat is its l ...

. The nature reserve covers an area of 186.26 ha of the Borská lowland area. It has a protection level of 4 under the slovak nature protection system. The nature reserve is part of the

Záhorie Protected Landscape Area Záhorie Protected Landscape Area ( sk, Chránená krajinná oblasť Záhorie) is the first lowland protected landscape area in Slovakia. It is located in the non-administrative Záhorie Záhorie ( hu, Erdőhát) is a region in western Slovakia ...

Description

The Dolný les nature reserve was declared in 1981 by the ministry of culture of the Slovak Socialist Republic. It consists of 3 parts with the largest part in the north and 2 smaller parts around 300m more to the south, separated from each other and the main part by meadows. The protected area was declared for the protection of regularly inundated soft-wood floodplain forest with willows, poplars, sporadic plants and typical animal species.

Fauna

Birds living in the nature reserve include the

black-headed gull The black-headed gull (''Chroicocephalus ridibundus'') is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic including Europe and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory and winters further south, but some birds res ...

, the great reed warbler and the

grey heron The grey heron (''Ardea cinerea'') is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern ...

.''Rezervácia Horný a Dolný les (Vysoká pri Morave)''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dolny les Geography of Bratislava Region Protected areas of Slovakia