Vilsandi National Park is a group of islands located in the Baltic Sea, off the northwest coast of the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The reserve was founded in 1993. Now a total area of ​​10689 hectares, of which 940 hectares of water area. However, such a huge National Park Vilsandi began immediately. In 1906 Artur Toom, the caretaker of the lighthouse took Vislandiskogo protect birds on 6 islands. And in 1910, the island of Vilsandi and Vaika 1910 received the status of the status of bird sanctuaries. Later they were joined by about 100 more offshore rocky islands, which are the real dolomite Silurian coral reefs of warm seas.

In our time, we included the following territories: the island of Vilsandi, still 160 other islands, the western part of. Saaremaa and Hariland Peninsula. So, the location of Vilsandi National Park is an area in the county Kihekonna Saar. The reserve was established to protect natural coastal landscapes, his research, and of course the aim is to preserve the cultural heritage of the West Estonian Archipelago.

Vilsandi Island is the only inhabited in a conservation area, it is small - only 6 km in length and only 3 km wide, the coastline of the island entirely indented bays, coves and capes.

Vilsandi National Park is best known as a bird sanctuary. There are data on 247 species of birds, 114 of them nest in the spring in the reserve. In the waters of the reserve, mostly on the island of Innarahu, it contains a large number of gray seals, bearing offspring in the snowless winters.

The Vilsandi National Park there are about 600 species of plants, including rare.

The reserve is of international importance and in the first place is the value of the diversity of species of birds that stop here, nest and feed. Among the 250 species, there are particularly valuable, such as whole colonies of common eider. There was widespread mute swan, common murre, ducks, sandwich tern, European bee-eater, a large and long-tailed mergansers and Purple Sandpiper. Reported data on 99 species of birds nesting on the territory of National Park Vilsandi. In addition, it confirmed the information that the migration route of many birds pass through Vilsandi, it's black and barnacle goose, whooper swan and others.

The scientific department of the National Park Vilsandi concerned with improving the environmental reserve. As well as regulating the number of eider ducks.

Travel direction is well developed, there will be interesting to any visitor. Your choice will be presented to a large number of hiking trails, is equipped with a sufficient number of viewing platforms for easy observation of the birds.