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The Cases of Expansion of the River Secchia

With a surface nearly 200 hectares the case of expansion of the river Secchia is situated in the proximities of the citizens of Rubiera and Campogalliano, to about ten kilometers from Modena; been born in order to safeguard the territory from alluviums, draft of a river basin outside river bed that receives the water from the river in flood that enters from a point of the lowest bank when the water is raised because of the obstruction place cross-sectionally to the river bed. With esaurirsi of the activities of excavation of the gravel and the increase of the vegetation, come to form a typical habitat of the humid zones, allowing the standstill of the migratory birds and subsequently also the breeding.

Recently, for initiative of the provinces and the interested town administrations, a Park has been founded that includes also the box to the left of the river and that constituted awry by the river bed inside the banks of the obstruction

The check-list brought back here one refers to the observations carried out in the course of the years between 1980 and March 2000.

The number brought back in the column Frequency indicates the number of times in that species has been observed here: as an example I have observed the Red-throated Diver only in 2 occasions.

Attention: for the translation of these texts from Italian I have used the help of an automatic translation program; the signaling through e-mail of possible errors (and them the corrections) they will be welcome.