DESCRIPTION

From Habitat Directive’s 92/43/EEC I appendix following habitat types appear on Vormsi Landscape Reserve: Sandbanks which are slightly covered by seawater (1110), Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide (1140), Coastal lagoons (1150), Large shallow inlets and bays (1160), Reefs (1170), Annual vegetation of drift lines (1210), Perennial vegetation of stony banks (1220), Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand (1310, Boreal Baltic islets and small islands (1620), Baltic Boreal coastal meadows (1630), Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands (5130), Nordic alvar and precambrian calcareous flatrocks (6280), Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae (7210), Pertifying springs with tufa formations (Cratoneurion) (7220), Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation (8210), Western taiga (9010), Fennoscandian hemiboreal natural old broad-leaved deciduous forests (Quercus, Tilia, Acer, Fraxinus or Ulmus) rich in epiphytes (9020) and Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods (9080. One vascular plant from Habitats Directive’s I appendix that grows on Vormsi is Liparis loeselii. From Bird Directive I appendix on the nature reserve nest or stop on migration Gavia stellata, G. arctica, Botaurus stellaris, Cygnus columbianus, C. cygnus, Branta leucopsis, Mergus albellus, Haliaeetus albicilla, Pandion haliaetus, Circus aeruginosus, Tetrix tetrao, Porzana porzana, Crex crex, Grus grus, Recusvirostra avosetta, Pluvialis apricaria, Calidris alpina, Philomachus pugnax, Limosa lapponica, Tringa glareola, Phalaropus lobatus, Sterna caspia, S. sandvicensis, S. hirundo, S. paradisaea, S. albifrons, Chlidonias niger, Bubo bubo, Strix uralensis, Caprimulgus europaeus, Lullula arborea, Sylvia nisoria, Ficedula parva and Lanius collurio.