Suitable areas for nesting of Harriers in Aquitaine

Study areas are located north of Bordeaux (Gironde) .

Study Areas:

Area J: Blaye’s Marsh.
Area K: Marsh near Bordeaux.
Area L: Wet land and pine seeds.

Wetlands, fallows, wet grass-land and pine seeds are caracteristics to our department and quite visited by the three harrier species.

Unlike other departments, Gironde is not a cereal region and fortunately harrier nests are not destroyed by agricole engines during crops harvest.

Natural environnement as reed-grass, rush marsh, wet land meadows as well as pine seed in the wet grass-land, offer suitable nesting places to the three harrier species