Raptors

Birds are our joy on this earth, and among them are the raptors. Eagles, harriers and falcons — powerful silhouettes against the sky, commanding respect from anyone who watches them.

" Insofar as we accept that man must live in harmony with nature, it is clear that he must accept the existence of predation. His attitude toward predators already shows an evolution from hostility to tolerance, one that should logically extend all the way to cooperation. In biological communities, every organism has its place, and eliminating so-called pests brings disruptions with far-reaching consequences. .. Since earliest antiquity, mythology and heraldry have abundantly attested to the prestige — let us even say the fascination — that Eagles exert. Man admires in them the power and proud bearing that mark a divine or aristocratic nobility — yet even as he takes their image as a symbol, he all the more exaggerates the damage they do, and often sets about exterminating them without even knowing them. "

Paul Géroudet - Les rapaces d’Europe.