The vultures

Let yourself be carried away by the synchronized ballet of the giants of the air.

During a walk in the Verdon, you can observe three species of vulture and their characteristic flights. They glide in spirals in search of favourable winds to move around. and find their food. Slow, haunting, mysterious, their shadows hover in the clouds.

This bird of prey, with its long, angular, plucked neck, feeds exclusively on dead animals, earning it the name of the sky’s garbage collector. His role as gravedigger has long provoked disgust and fear in men. As a result, they fell victim to a poor image that contributed to their disappearance from Haute-Provence and even the Alps in the 19th century.

Watching vultures in the Verdon is easy enough, but patience and discretion are the key to magic. Just take the

Route des Crêtes

à
La Palud-sur-Verdon
(partially closed in winter from the Pas de la Baou to the Chalet de la Maline, while the other lookouts remain accessible), which birds of prey regularly fly over.
Numerous belvederes offer impressive vantage points from which to admire them at close quarters.
. But to contemplate the griffon vulture, his majesty the black vulture and the Egyptian vulture known as the Egyptian vulture, the unconditional spot remains the village of Rougon. On a rock opposite the village, some thirty birds scan the horizon. The scene is almost surreal!