Kneiss Islands: images gallery 1

The island of Kneiss. Flooded salt marshes and sebkhas during spring  high tide.  April 1999, Photo F. Scapini.

A nest of the black-headed gull Larus ridibundus on the island of  Kneiss. Abour 2,000 nests were estimated on the island.
 Photo F. Scapini, 15/04/99.

 The eastern shoreline of the island of Kneiss at spring high tide.  The halophite plant Salicornia sp. and debris of Cymodocia sp.
 Photo F. Scapini, 16/04/99.

Intertidal mudflats in the Kneiss area. Collection of carpet shells, Venerupis sp., during low tide. Photo L. Chelazzi, 23/11/98.