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Although naturally formed as part of the Bourgas-Mandra firth, the coastal wetland has transformed due to human interference. Nowadays Poda is a shallow coastal lagoon inlayed with a variety of differing habitats - freshwater, brackish, haline and hyperhaline pools, flooded areas, overgrown with aquatic vegetation, all holding great variety of bird species. It was declared a protected area in 1989 and in 2002 – as a Ramsar site. The extensive reedbeds provide shelter, which is used is the nesting season mostly by Purple Herons, Little Egrets, Spoonbills and Glossy Ibises for their mixed colonies. Many crakes, warblers, Little Bitterns and even Marsh Harriers also lay their eggs within the reedbeds.
On the electric pylons, flooded in the water, use to breed Great Cormorants. During migration the territory of Poda is of great importance for many egrets, herons, gulls, terns, waders and waterfowl. Impressive flow of thousands soaring migrants (storks, birds of prey and pelicans) passes here as a narrow never-ending front. The winter species list is fairly long and interesting, comprising divers, grebes (5 species), Dalmatian Pelicans, Great and Pygmy Cormorants, Bitterns, Great Egrets, Swans (3 species), Pochards, Tufted Ducks, White-headed Ducks, Smews, White-tailed Eagles etc.
 
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