Protected Area
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- Land Surface Area: 3'543.45 ha
- Regions: Sicilia
- Provinces: Messina
- Municipalities: Alì, Fiumedinisi, Itala, Monforte San Giorgio, Nizza di Sicilia, San Filippo del Mela, San Pier Niceto
- Establishment Measures: DA 743/44 10/12/1998
- PA Official List: EUAP1116
Riserva Naturale Orientata Fiumedinisi e Monte Scuderi
This protected area reserves many surprises to naturalists: wonderful specimens of Tree Heath, at the foot of Mt. Scuderi, grow together with all the species of Downy Oak known in Sicily, covering the valleys and the lower areas of the reserve. Another feature is represented by the torrents: real geological labs in the open air in which a multitude of pebbles of different mineral origin tell the tale of the bowels of the earth and of the physical nature of Peloritani mountains.
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Fauna
Rock Partridge (Sicilian subspecies)
It is a medium-size phasianid: males can weight even 600 grams and are bigger than the females. Moreover, unlike the females, they have ergots on the claws.
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Flora
The Downy Oak
Have you ever seen in winter trees with a dark and contorted trunk, gloomily keeping their dry and yellow leaves on their branches? They are the Downy oaks, a name indicating not only a species of oak (genus Quercus), but different ones.
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