Utrera Natural Reserve in Seville
Spain - Barcelona - Seville - Valencia - Madrid
Features of Utrera Natural Reserve in Seville
The features of Utrera Natural Reserve in Seville include:
- You can find reedbeds, rushes, tamarisk and glasswort on the lake shores.
- The underwater vegetation provides an important food source for birds.
- The native Mediterranean vegetation that used to surround the lakes has been largely destroyed.
- It contains three saltwater lakes. The lakes and their protected environs cover 1,161ha.
- Laguna de Zarracatín is around ten times the size of the other two, Laguna Arjona and Laguna Alcaparrosa.
- Like the Lebrija-Las Cabezas Natural Reserve, it provides an alternative habitat for birds in the nearby Guadalquivir delta.
- Coots, mallards, shovelers, wigeons and pochards are most commonly seen here, particularly during the winter months.
- Other birds are little grebes, white-headed ducks, purple gallinules, flamingos, purple herons, cattle egrets and little egrets.
- Birds using the reserve as a stopping place during migration include waders and avocets.
- Also here are whiskered terns, gull-billed terns, black-headed gulls and lesser black-backed gulls.
- Birds from the Embalse Torre Del Aguila, which is about 3km east, also use the reserve.
- As the lakes are all seasonal, it is best to visit in winter or spring and not during times of drought.
