The Goksøyr Mires Nature Reserve () is located on the island of

Runde Runde is an island in Herøy Municipality (Møre og Romsdal), Herøy Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island has a population of 113 people (as of 2015), and it is connected by the Runde Bridge to the island of Remøya to th ...

in Herøy Municipality in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The reserve was established in 1996 to "take care of a

bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and musk ...

area with a

blanket bog Blanket bog or blanket mire, also known as featherbed bog, is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses ...

, a bog type and bog vegetation that were common in coastal areas, but which, due to various forms of intervention, are now rarely found in good and typical condition," according to the conservation regulations. The nature reserve encompasses the northwestern part of a mountain plateau on Runde. Blanket bog dominates the area, which has slopes as steep as 25°. The bog is a nesting area for the

great skua The great skua (''Stercorarius skua''), sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is roughly the size of a herring gull. It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken fro ...

. In 2013, the area was designated a Ramsar wetland site as one of five subareas of the

Runde Ramsar Site The Runde Ramsar Site is a Ramsar Convention area consisting of five previously approved protected areas in Herøy Municipality and Ulstein Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The area was established in 2013. The five protected are ...

.''Forvaltingsplan for Runde og Grasøyane fuglefredingsområde Goksøyrmyrane naturreservat Herøy og Ulstein kommunar''. 2013. Molde: Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal, p. 3.

References

External links

''Mijlø-direktoratet: Goksøyrmyrane''. Map and description of the nature reserve.

Miljøverndepartementet. 1996. ''Goksøyrmyrane naturreservat, Herøy kommune, Møre og Romsdal fylke''. 1:5,000 map of the nature reserve.

''Runde Bird Sanctuary''. 2010. County Governor of Møre and Romsdal.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goksoyr Mires Nature Reserve Nature reserves in Norway Protected areas of Møre og Romsdal Herøy, Møre og Romsdal Protected areas established in 1996