In Vendée, the Aiguillon bay is the perfect place to observe bird migration. Reporting.
Migratory birds fly to Africa at this time of year. To observe them, the best place is the bay of l’Aiguillon, in Vendée. Daily and for three months, ornithologists follow one another in this open-air office to observe the movements. Their goal: to draw up an inventory of fall migrations.
“There typically you see we have a resting place, which we only see in the morning at high tide, and these are birds waiting for the tide to drop to go to feed in the rice fields.“, explains Justin Chambrelin, volunteer at LPO 85, the league for the protection of birds of Vendée.”Birds concentrate here to cross the inlet at the narrowest point“, adds Aurélie Guégnard, project manager at LPO 85.