{"id":24,"date":"2009-03-07T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-03-07T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T17:16:58","slug":"checking-out-birdland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/checking-out-birdland\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking out Birdland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Not exactly in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Nice.htm\">Nice <\/a>but just across the Var river that separates Nice from St Laurent du Var is an <strong>ornithological reserve<\/strong> and protected nature park. Called the &#8220;Estuaire du Var&#8221; or &#8220;Petit Camargue&#8221;, this little piece of\u00a0 marshland at the Var estuary provides sanctuary to some 270 bird species!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see quite that variety today; it was more like 270 birds.\u00a0 Still, the smell of fresh water and reed-lined river banks were an abrupt change from the Baie des Anges. I did spot some impressive herons grouped on a sand bar in the middle of the river at it rushed toward the sea and two enormous white swans. Cormorants, terns and gulls were also plentiful. There were a few guys there with serious lenses so I assume that there were rarer birds on site\u00a0 to make their investment worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>A wooden walkway\u00a0 runs along the banks and a half-dozen signs explain the bird life. Apparently, the reserve is on one of the major migratory routes that run from Africa to parts north. There are also nesting birds but the signs are unclear about who&#8217;s nesting and who&#8217;s travelling on.<\/p>\n<p>The ornithological reserve must be in one of the world&#8217;s least welcoming places. It&#8217;s sandwiched between Cap3000, the giant shopping centre, and Terminal 2 of the Nice Airport. Planes roaring off the runway every 10 minutes seemed not to trouble the birds in the least. Nor did I see any flying into the jets to see what was going on in the engines. We have very smart birds on the French Riviera, not like those dumb Hudson twits!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly in Nice but just across the Var river that separates Nice from St Laurent du Var is an ornithological reserve and protected nature park. Called the &#8220;Estuaire du Var&#8221; or &#8220;Petit Camargue&#8221;, this little piece of\u00a0 marshland at the Var estuary provides sanctuary to some 270 bird species! <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/checking-out-birdland\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-nice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Checking out Birdland - French Riviera Travel News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/checking-out-birdland\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Checking out Birdland - French Riviera Travel News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not exactly in Nice but just across the Var river that separates Nice from St Laurent du Var is an ornithological reserve and protected nature park. 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