"The barn owl" (Tyto alba), a nocturnal raptor victim every year of fatal collisions with cars, is the subject of a national campaign entitled "drive slower at night" launched by the League for the protection of birds LPO .
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Jean-Christophe Verhaegen afp.com
Unusual rescue for the gendarmes of the motorized brigade of Dieppe (Seine-Maritime).
This Friday, they were carrying out a speed check at Criel-sur-Mer when they saw an injured owl, reports
Paris Normandie
.
The barn owl was on the ground, in trouble, when it was rescued by law enforcement.
The animal had a suspected fracture of a wing, according to the tweet of the gendarmes.
#scue 🤕
Yesterday morning during a speed check in the Criel sur Mer sector, the 👮🏻‍♂️👮‍♂️ of the Dieppe motorized brigade rescued a 🦉 🦉 suspected wing fracture
The animal was given to the association le CHENE in Allouville-Bellefosse đź’™ @ Gendarmerie pic.twitter.com/OfZt6NUYoB
- Gendarmerie de la Seine-Maritime (@ gendarmerie_076) October 10, 2020
Entrusted to an association
The collected animal was handed over to the CHENE association (Center for accommodation and study on nature and the environment) in Allouville-Bellefosse.
The association manages a conservation center which hosts many wild animals.
The latter are cared for there before being returned to their natural state.
From time to time, the gendarmes intervene to rescue animals in difficulty.
In February 2016, for example, soldiers from Pornic (Loire-Atlantique) had come to the aid of a young seal trapped in the sand in Saint-Brévin.
Two years ago, gendarmes and firefighters from Haute-Garonne had rescued a boar who had fallen into the empty swimming pool of an individual.
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