The Danube Delta

I. Rosca - Buhaiova - Letea , landmarks of the area od 12,000 hectares in the Matita depression, in the northern part of the Big M (Sulina arm). The lakes Rosca, Merhei and a combination of ponds, reed marshes, floating islets play host to big colonies of pelicans, egrets, herons, glossy ibises, spoon bills.

II. Sacalin - Zatoane streches south of the Sfantu Gheorghe commune, over some 21,000 hectares lining the litoral. It is a succesion of banks with isolated lakes, marshy areas, river and low salinity waters, sand-clogged ponds, reeds, traversed by parallel dunes. The Zatoane lakes in particularr are places of transit, stopover and hatching for mute swans, whitte, red and yellow herons, cormorants, composite colonies including pelicans.

III. Periteasca - Bisericuta - Gura Portitei extends to the south the above-mentioned reserve by over 4,000 hectares. It distinguishes itself by dry banks washed by the sea or by the Razim lake, fit especially for the existence of shore birds used to salt and for transiting ones.