Skilsnäs, Naturreservat

The peninsula of Skilsnäs is home to a rich birdlife, and the nature is both valuable and favorable for lichens, mosses, insects, and fungi. For much of the year, Skilsnäs is more of an island than a peninsula as it is cut off from the land by high water.

Skilsnäs is a rocky and blocky peninsula in Lake Flåren on the border between Jönköping and Kronoberg counties. The island, which was previously used for grazing and mowing, is today covered with old beech forest and mixed noble deciduous forest with beech, birch, oak, alder, aspen, and elements of spruce. On the ground, herbs such as toothwort, tussock sedge, hazelwort, and hepatica grow. Along the rocky shores, the beautiful and rare bell gentian can be seen in some places.

Around Skilsnäs, there are several small islands and skerries that are attractive breeding grounds for seabirds such as osprey, black-throated diver, great black-backed gull, and common tern. In the southern part of the reserve lie the two Pine Islands.

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