{"id":38604,"date":"2023-02-24T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/?p=38604"},"modified":"2023-04-03T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:02:50","slug":"results-of-the-2023-crane-census-in-the-camargue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/actualites-en\/results-of-the-2023-crane-census-in-the-camargue\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of the 2023 Crane census in the Camargue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 10, 2023, a coordinated census of wintering Common cranes (<em>Grus Grus<\/em>) in the Camargue took place. About forty people, volunteers or employees of the Tour du Valat, the Camargue National Reserve, the Vigueirat Marshes Reserve, the Camargue Regional Nature Park and the Scamandre Center spread out over the Camargue territory to estimate the wintering population as closely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38602\"  class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38602 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grues-cendrees-RNNCamargue-Silke-Befeld-Janvier-2023-3-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Flight of cranes, Camargue national reserve<\/span> \u00a9 Silke befeld \/ SNPN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;background-color: #f5f6f7\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_38594\"  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38594 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-01-10_Comptage-grues@L.Marchal-1-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Flight of cranes over the Tour du Valat<\/span> \u00a9 Silke befeld<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;background-color: #f5f6f7\">The observers were positioned near nocturnal gatherings, also called roosts, inventoried beforehand. These are generally vast wetlands hosting from a few tens to several thousands of individuals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>At sunrise, the observers counted the groups of cranes leaving their nocturnal quarters to reach their feeding areas. This resulted in a count of <strong>26,800 individuals<\/strong>, a very slight decrease compared to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, these figures confirm the very strong increase of the species in the Camargue over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GRUES-2023-EN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GRUES-2023-EN.png 639w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GRUES-2023-EN-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GRUES-2023-EN-120x91.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 10, 2023, a coordinated census of wintering Common cranes (Grus Grus) in the Camargue took place. About forty people, volunteers or employees of the Tour du Valat, the Camargue National Reserve, the Vigueirat Marshes Reserve, the Camargue Regional Nature Park and the Scamandre Center spread out over the Camargue territory to estimate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[983,33,984],"class_list":["post-38604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-en","tag-oiseaux-hiverants-en","tag-oiseaux-migrateurs-en","tag-suivis-en","country-camargue-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38863,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38604\/revisions\/38863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}