Kalamas Estuaries

Oasis for Winged Travellers

The union of fresh water and sea water, creates a big variety of habitats: lagoons, fresh water marsh, reeds, sea water marsh... They all have great value because they support important numbers of birds.

The estuaries constitute precious turning-point for the migratory birds since the delta is found precisely above the air-path of Western Greece.

The migratory stations are for the birds equally vital just as the regions where they are procrated or overwinter. Exceptionally infrequent slenden-billed curlew has been observed here, at her long travel between Middle Africa and Siberia. In the estuaries come herons in order to overwinter. The number of great white egret, that overwinters in Kalama, is bigger than the 1% of their population in the East Mediterranean.

Getting here

From Igoumenitsa, following the National Road to Ioannina, in New Seleykeia turning left. Follow the street north that lead you to Sagiada. There you visit the Centre of Information of Kalamas, in the graphic scenery small port of Skalwma. You will inform yourselfs for the possibilities of visit particular spaces of Kalamas estuaries.