Flói Nature Reserve
The Flói Nature Reserve () is a bird and nature reserve located near Árborg municipality in the Southern Region of Iceland. It includes a stretch of the east shore of the Ölfusá River. The reserve measures roughly wide by long, with an area of about . It is an Internationally Important Bird Area as recognised by BirdLife International. It is all low-lying wetland, on average only above sea level, and is subject to seawater flooding at the spring tide. There are vistas of the surrounding mountains. The reserve establishment began in spring 1997 when Icelandic Society for the Protection of Birds was awarded funding from the Environmental Fund for Trade and its operation has received support from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from the UK.http://www.fuglavernd.is/index.php/eng Icelandic Society for the Protection of Birdshttp://www.nat.is/travelguideeng/plofin_floi_nature_reserve.htm Nordic Adventure Travel Birds on the reserve The following birds have been report ...
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Árborg
wikt:sveitarfélag#Icelandic, Sveitarfélagwikt:-ið#Icelandic, ið Árborg () is the biggest municipality in southern Iceland founded in 1998. The biggest town in the municipality is Selfoss (town), Selfoss. Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri are two communities on the southern coast and Sandvíkurhreppur is a rural administrative region between those three other towns. The area was represented in the fifth episode of the first season of the parody TV series Documentary Now! as the host of an Al Capone Festival. Twin towns — sister cities Árborg is Sister city, twinned with: * Arendal, Norway * Kalmar Municipality, Kalmar, Sweden * Savonlinna, Finland See also *Municipalities of Iceland References

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