Description
The former course of the Adige River here described a wide meander. With a rectification of its bed, the meander was 'cut' (hence the name 'Taio', meaning 'cut'), but the large area coinciding with the former course always remained a wetland.
The old course of the river is still visible when observed from above. Topographical maps also faithfully depict this situation, and the old meander can easily be read there.
From the point of view of vegetation, the nature reserve is very interesting, although the alterations of the past have considerably impoverished it.
It is characterised by a reed thicket at the edges of which grow the dipper (Alisma plantago-aquatica), the cattail (Typha latifolia) and the marsh calta (Caltha palustris), a beautiful hygrophilous Ranunculacea that at Taio has its only station in the entire Vallagarina.
In the 'new' stretches of water, recently created as part of the restoration project involving the area, a rich and interesting submerged and floating vegetation is also developing.
The faunal aspects of the Taio di Nomi are also of considerable importance, especially with regard to bird life. In the past decades it was a renowned ornithological station, and is still remembered for the large number of species that used to stop there; after all, it could only be so, given its extension and the importance of the Adige's shaft for migratory routes. But even today, although reduced in area, the protected area retains considerable interest.
Among the waterbirds nesting here are the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), the coot (Fulica atra), the moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and the reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), but there are also numerous bird species that use the biotope as a resting, refuge and feeding area during their migratory movements.
Visiting facilities
- fauna observation tower
Publications
- Project for protection and enhancement
Studies
- naturalistic and cadastral definition project
- periodic avifauna monitoring
- periodic amphibian monitoring
- Scientific Commission studies
Enhancement interventions
- Némos project