The third area is the Western peninsula of the island which also includes the Petrified Forest in Sigri. Birds rare for the European area can be found here, such as: the Black-throated Warbler Sitta krueperi, the Black-throated Warbler Emberiza cineracea, the Moustached Warbler Sylvia rueppelli etc. The Petrified Forest is located at the North-West end of the island, near the village of Sigri.
It is a bare, treeless area, with scattered fossilized logs or parts of logs from a forest that existed there millions of years ago. The fossil plant species found here belong to the flora of the Cenophytic century (corresponding to the Cenozoic) and are various species of Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. More than forty species have been identified so far. Some of the fossil species are plants that prefer mild temperatures, and are phytogeographically subtropical, with related genera in the forests of Southeast Asia, such as a large number of species of the Lauraceae family (Laurus, Cinnamomum, etc.) Another group are plants that prefer a continental climate and belong to the genera Alnus, Carpinus, Populus, Quercus, Pinus, Sequoia, etc.
From the study of several samples it appears that most of the trunks belong to conifers of the Taxodiaceae family and probably to the Sequoia genus.
Apart from the terrestrial ecosystems, the marine ones are also important, such as the marine part that surrounds the rocky island of Nisiopi, with its dozens of fossilized tree trunks, below the surface of the sea.