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Live the Night Owl

March 19, 2011, dive into the night to discover owls and owls

March 19, 2011, for the 9th night of the owl, the LPO (League for the Protection of Birds) and the Federation of Regional Nature Parks offer the public free entertainment throughout

France. A dive in the heart of darkness to discover the owls, the dangers they face and simple ways to help them.

For over fifteen years (1995), small and large curious nature come together every two years, after nightfall, on the lookout for people to feather the night owls and owls, and their haired companions. For its eighth edition, the Night Owl has assembled, March 14, 2009, over 26,000 people participated in more than 400 animations.

During outings in the shadows, sounds and smells of dusk, the naturalist guides will lift the veil on the tawny owl, the little owl, barn owl, owls, medium or large Duke. Of Moreover, it may be possible to see at the bend of a trail, a deer or a fox on the prowl, or to hear the appeal of fluted Common Midwife toad toad.

We also invite you to discover the lives of these fascinating nocturnal (behavior, distribution, diet) and the threats they face (habitat destruction, scarcity of nesting sites, agricultural intensification, road traffic) at lectures, films and slide shows, readings, exhibitions, and for younger, events in schools.

Finally, workshops will enable you to initiate simple actions to save the raptors (installation of nesting boxes, planting trees and hedges, driving slower at night) and thereby support actions implemented on a daily basis, on the ground by associations like the LPO, and regional parks.

Dive Into the night to discover these raptors, as endearing as they are fragile, and join the players for their protection.

Go to the 9th Night Owl

Allain Bougrain Dubourg

President of the LPO

Jean-Louis Joseph

President of the Federation of Parks

Owls Breeding France

Metropolitan France has nine species of owls nesting. The barn owl, the owl of Athena and the owl

-eared are present on almost all the territory where they frequent the groves and open environments. The tawny owl is common too, nestled in the woods and lowland forests. At the end of winter, the Grand Duke settled in Europe in the cliffs of the rugged country. The owl of Europe and the boreal owl are two rare species that frequent the mountain forests.

The short-eared owl, more common in winter, even occasionally nest in swamps and wasteland. The scops owl scops, southernmost, is the only nocturnal bird of prey to winter in Africa before returning, on our territory in April.

species to be observed when the Night Owl

Tawny Owl, little owl and barn owl are commonly seen while you will see more occasionally-eared owls and Grand Duke, and the boreal owl.

You can also cross the night heron, the heron, the carrion crow, the jackdaw, buzzard, the buzzard

St. Martin, the white stork, the blackcap black head and bats, foxes, deer, badgers, and amphibians, which in the end of winter, breed in water points.

Sincerely,

Sylvie Fortier
Host of associational life
Area Gotheron
26320 Saint-Marcel-les-Valence
Phone: 04 75 57 32 39 (* 4)
Email: drome@lpo.fr
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