“We're going to leave Epi here, at the entrance to the burrow.
If she scares the rabbit and he manages to escape, it is Odin who will catch him in low flight.
» It's a rabbit hunting game like no other that takes place in Sein (Finistère), on the islet of Kilaourou, accessible at low tide, and which has become a gigantic warren where rabbits swarm, like everywhere on the island. island off Pointe du Raz.
Since Sunday February 25, we can see two professional falconers, ferrets on their shoulders and in small bags and birds of prey on their arms, working in these natural and uninhabited areas.
" Flight !
» we suddenly hear.
In a quarter of a second, Odin, a seasoned 12-year-old northern vulture, swooped down on his prey, flushed out by a small female ferret, whose bells still resonate underground.
On the arm of the second falconer, Bjorn, a young 4-year-old vulture, squeaks his beak a little.
These medium-sized birds of prey, from the Accipitridae family, were chosen, along with Harris's hawks, to regulate a far too numerous population of wild rabbits, introduced to the island more than 50 years ago by hunters. and who devastate everything in their path, while hunting is prohibited.
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