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The reserve is internationally known for the variety of birds that live and nest there each year. The animals can truly be admired up close thanks to the construction of wooden footbridges that run along some of the bodies of water closest to the shore, hidden among the tall reeds and dense marsh vegetation, immersed in the silence of nature. The waters of the Torbiere del Sebino Nature Reserve are home to some of the best-known lake fish: carp, pike, tench and eel that swim among the rushes and hide in the shade of the dense reeds and water lilies. The area is considered one of Europe's most important bird-watching havens; in fact, 17 species of birds nest there, such as the reed warbler, great reed warbler, little grebe, little bittern, water rail, and marsh bunting, the green-winged reed warbler, the salt-winged warbler, the garganey, the greenshank, the cuckoo, the gadwall, the penduline warbler, the coot, the mallard, the moorhen, the warbler and other migratory species. On the pools of water, however, float the beautiful water lilies.Note at the entrance to the park a 17th-century fountain once used as a public washhouse. From it flow very fresh water from the cliff of the Madonna del Corno. A
