Camping near the natural reserve of the Gorges de l'Ardèche.

The natural reserve

The national nature reserve of the Ardeche gorges is located in the regions Occitania and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes between Vallon Pont d'Arc and Saint Martin d' Ardèche. It extends over 1 950 hectares since 2018 and protects the gorges of the Ardeche. Good visit to all!

Bonelli's Eagle

Lord of the Mediterranean

Emblematic of the scrubland areas, the eagle of
Bonelli (Aquila fasciata) is nevertheless a rare and threatened species in our country with
numbers that have dropped by nearly 60% in the space
of fifty years! This alarming fact has earned it
the status of "Endangered" in the
red list of breeding birds in France.
Nevertheless,
the situation tends to improve since the implementation of conservation actions which have allowed
to regain ten pairs in the space of twelve years on
our territory.

Egyptian Vulture

The adult is characterized by a black and white plumage and an elongated head of ruffled aspect. The face is bare, yellow to orange with a thin blackish beak. No sexual dimorphism allows to easily differentiate the males from the females, except for a dark band on the naked skin of the head of the males present in summer, and the lanceolate feathers almost always drawn up on the head during the period of reproduction.
The young are distinguished from the adults by their darker plumage. The final adult plumage is acquired around the 5th/6th year. Because of the individual variations in the intermediate plumage, it is difficult to relate a precise age to a plumage.