A griffon vulture -
LECQUYER JEROME / BNT / SIPA
The eagerly awaited results of the Griffon Vulture population census in France fell on Monday.
In a press release, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefecture announces that it is in this department that we find this scavenging raptor in greater numbers.
The new count carried out in 2019 “made it possible to count a total of 1,254 breeding pairs in France, including 1,055 pairs in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 101 in the Hautes-Pyrénées, 13 in Haute-Garonne, 84 in the Aude and one in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
"The" French Pyrenean population is estimated at 1,286 breeding pairs.
This workforce represents an increase of 51% since 2012, or an average annual growth rate of 7.2%.
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"True natural renderer"
The vultures breeding on the French side of the Pyrenees "however, constitute only the extension of a much larger Spanish population, estimated in 2018-2019 at 30,946 pairs (including 6,015 in the Pyrenean provinces, from the Basque Country to Catalonia)" .
The Griffon Vulture breeds in France in the Pyrenees, the Grands Causses of the Massif Central and the Southern Alps.
“A true natural knacker, his diet is based almost exclusively on corpses resulting from the mortality of farmed livestock, and secondarily from the remains of large wild ungulates (chamois, chamois, ibex, mouflon, deer, etc.)”, indicates the prefecture.
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