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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
As well as awesome landscapes the Verdon is rich in plant and animal life. The most emblematic species is the griffon vulture, a massive scavenger with a two-and-a-half metre wing span, which, after more than a century's absence, was reintroduced to the area from Spain during the 1990s. The programme has been so successful that the Verdon now has an established colony of eighty-to-ninety birds, rising to around 120 in early summer.
With a bit of patience sightings of these magnificent birds are almost guaranteed near the village of Rougon, itself sited on a rocky spur above the right bank of the main gorge. As the mid-morning sun begins to warm the rock face, vultures regularly launch themselves from their rock ledges and fly up the gorge for several hundred metres before circling up high on the thermals. |
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