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Abstract Anthropogenic and natural factors of transformation of breeding bird communities of the Lower Dnipro affect mainly the territory of the Kakhovka Reservoir. Transformation processes of natural systems will result in a decrease of numbers and even the disappearance of some species of nesting birds of Ciconiiformes and Anseriformes. Podicipediformes and Charadriiformes birds remain less vulnerable, especially species that nest on the overwater vegetation. The birds nesting in hollows and in trees and shrub plantations are among the most successful. It is also possible to predict that some species would change their priorities from rock to tree-nesting. The wetlands below Nova Kakhovka will remain a natural sanctuary for the nesting birds of the forest and wetland natural complexes of the floodplain of the Lower Dnipro. Any changes in this area can occur in case of further human activity in the floodplain of the Dnipro lowland.