I visited the place and had a great time there, a few interesting things worth mentionning here made me create this thread.
The park is located in Sciez, a town in France 30 minutes away from Geneva, between the Lac Léman and the Alps.
80 species of pretty much only birds of prey, 220 individuals call this place home.
They claim having the biggest free-flight aviary for birds of prey in the world, they also claim being the 3rd biggest collection of birds of prey in term of species.
The huge "Terre des aigles" (18000m²) is home to 60 free-flying birds. I visited on a very sunny day so most of the birds were resting and it felt a bit underwhelming, but it is a pretty impressive set up, where Monk vultures, Griffon vultures, a single secretary birds, a few geese, a single lappet-faced vulture, a few hooded vultures and many more kites and eagles live their best life.
The second biggest aviary is home to 3 species : ospreys, egyptian vultures and short-toed snake eagles. The set-up is very impressive, it's huge as well. You can enter the aviary but you're only able to walk on a terrace, where you can also eat. Not enough birds in my opinion, as it was a real challenge seing one.
Then they have this little aviary home to smaller birds of preys and vultures, where a sterile hooded vultures who apparently raised all the hooded vultures offsprings of the park lives. There is another multi-species aviary that's pretty big, where a couple of curious Black vultures pass their heads through the mesh to say hello. Didn't try to pet them so I can't tell you if they bite.
Then it's all pretty basic aviaries, wood is used for all of them as the main structure material, decently planted for most of them, some were a bit too small in my opinion, some were pretty huge considering most were home to only a single or a couple birds.
Great collection, cool set-up, the shows are pretty cool as well as they do equestrian falconnery.
I'd definitely recommand the place if you're nearby, they have quite a few rarities as well :
- One of two Chaco eagles in captivity worldwide, the other one being in Brazil.
- African crowned eagle (ZTL lists 2, I only saw one, really impressive bird)
- Martial eagle
- A couple of Wahlberg's eagles
- The last couple of Wedge-tailed eagles in age of reproduction in Europe, too bad the two individuals do not get along, so unless they import a new individual, the species is due to disappear from zoos in Europe at least (as far as I know)
- A single Eleonora's falcon
And a few others as well, depends what you call a rarity.
Anyway, a pretty surprising little bird park, definitely worth a detour if nearby.
The park is located in Sciez, a town in France 30 minutes away from Geneva, between the Lac Léman and the Alps.
80 species of pretty much only birds of prey, 220 individuals call this place home.
They claim having the biggest free-flight aviary for birds of prey in the world, they also claim being the 3rd biggest collection of birds of prey in term of species.
The huge "Terre des aigles" (18000m²) is home to 60 free-flying birds. I visited on a very sunny day so most of the birds were resting and it felt a bit underwhelming, but it is a pretty impressive set up, where Monk vultures, Griffon vultures, a single secretary birds, a few geese, a single lappet-faced vulture, a few hooded vultures and many more kites and eagles live their best life.
The second biggest aviary is home to 3 species : ospreys, egyptian vultures and short-toed snake eagles. The set-up is very impressive, it's huge as well. You can enter the aviary but you're only able to walk on a terrace, where you can also eat. Not enough birds in my opinion, as it was a real challenge seing one.
Then they have this little aviary home to smaller birds of preys and vultures, where a sterile hooded vultures who apparently raised all the hooded vultures offsprings of the park lives. There is another multi-species aviary that's pretty big, where a couple of curious Black vultures pass their heads through the mesh to say hello. Didn't try to pet them so I can't tell you if they bite.
Then it's all pretty basic aviaries, wood is used for all of them as the main structure material, decently planted for most of them, some were a bit too small in my opinion, some were pretty huge considering most were home to only a single or a couple birds.
Great collection, cool set-up, the shows are pretty cool as well as they do equestrian falconnery.
I'd definitely recommand the place if you're nearby, they have quite a few rarities as well :
- One of two Chaco eagles in captivity worldwide, the other one being in Brazil.
- African crowned eagle (ZTL lists 2, I only saw one, really impressive bird)
- Martial eagle
- A couple of Wahlberg's eagles
- The last couple of Wedge-tailed eagles in age of reproduction in Europe, too bad the two individuals do not get along, so unless they import a new individual, the species is due to disappear from zoos in Europe at least (as far as I know)
- A single Eleonora's falcon
And a few others as well, depends what you call a rarity.
Anyway, a pretty surprising little bird park, definitely worth a detour if nearby.
