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Wildlife Provençale offers the most flexible birdwatching tours in the region.

Our Typical Birding Tour Itinerary

As we are offering year round bird-watching vacations, it is impossible to give a definitive species list because migrants come and go, but here is a typical outline of our favourite spots and notable species.
Day 1: Arrive at Valence. Evening meal in Sainte Jalle. Explore the village and settle in. Look for beavers, Nightingales and Nightjars.
Day 2: Explore the Baronnies for R.B. and G.G. Shrikes, tawny pipit, S.Toed and G.Eagles, B.Kite, Hobby, Corn, Rock and Cirl Buntings, Melodious, Bonnellis, Dartford, Sub Alpine, Spectacled Warblers, Alpine Swift, Crag Martin, B.Woodpecker, Griffon, Chamois and E.Owl in the evening.
Day 3: Visit Camargue for flamingoes, bee eaters, whiskered terns, Bonnellis Eagle, Marsh Harriers, Black Kite, Cettis, fantailed, Gr.Reed, Melodious, Spectacled Warblers, Cattle and little Egrets, Squaco, Purple Herons, Bittern and Little Bittern and lots more.
Day 4: Vercor National Park - Check out the mountains and cliffs for Mouflon, Chamois, Ibex, H. and C. Buzzards, G.Eagles, Blue and Rock Thrush.
Day 5:Rhone Valley, Dentelles and Gorge de la Nesque - Egyptian Vulture, Bonnellis Eagle, L.Bustard, Stone Curlew, four species of Shrikes.
Day 6: Crau and Vaucluse - L.Bustard, G. Oriole, Bonnellis Eagles, Hobby, Collared Pratincole, Pin tailed Sandgrouse, Roller, Callandra Lark, Lesser Kestrel.
Day 7: Camargue.
Day 8: Return home.

Back to top Transport

Many guests from the U.K. and mainland Europe are discovering that the Eurostar and T.G.V. trains are the way to travel. Swift, safe and comfortable providing an armchair ride through rural France. Guests who arrange air travel (to Marseille) are met at (and returned to) the airport, or to and from their hotel. To get around Provence we use a Renault Kangoo (5 seats), or for larger groups we use a Espace type people carrier.

Back to top Group Size

These wildlife tours have a maximum group size of eight persons. We are completely flexible and have run birdwatching tours for one individual.

Back to top Accommodation

Guests will be lodged in spacious holiday cottages here in our village and in the evenings eat at a local family run restaurant where the warm welcome and traditional French cuisine rounds off the day’s birding - all for no extra cost! Tell us your requirements, and we will do our utmost to put together a holiday package to suit you.

Back to top Prices

£1095 for guests travelling from the U.K. This price includes rail tickets (from and back to London), meals at the restaurant each evening, picnics, wines with meals, and the accommodation. For guests making their own way here our fee would be suitably reduced.

Back to top Financial Protection

All your monies are protected in a special customer account held by our solicitors Clifford, Smith, and Buchanan, 18 Manchester Road, Burnley, Lancs. BB11 1HH, and not withdrawn until your trip is completed. This complies with the Package Travel, Package Holiday, and Package Tour Regulations as set forth by the British Government in 1992.

Back to top Terms and Conditions of Booking

  1. To make a reservation simply send us the completed booking form together with your deposit for 100 pounds sterling, we will confirm your reservation in writing giving a date by which the balance is due.
  2. Balance of payment is due 6 weeks before departure. If this is not promptly received by us we reserve the right to treat your bird-watching holiday booking as cancelled without refund of your deposit.
    Period before departure Cancellation Charge
    Over 42 days Deposit
    21-42 days 50% of holiday price
    14-20 days 75% of holiday price
    Less than 14 days 100% of holiday price
  3. If you are unavoidably prevented from coming on holiday with us you may transfer your booking to another person, any extra charges incurred in such a situation must be borne by yourself.
  4. The price we quote you for your bird-watching holiday is the price you will pay and includes accommodation, meals, and transport within the scope of the holiday. The price does not include the cost of your personal insurance. It is essential that you are covered against the usual risks of travel. We therefore make it a condition of our accepting your booking that you take out personal holiday insurance against cancellation charges, missed departure, loss of personal effects, and personal injury. We will require a copy of your cover note for our records prior to the natural history tour.
  5. In the unlikely event of our cancelling your birdwatching holiday, we will refund the full amount you have paid for the holiday.
  6. We reserve the right to change the itinerary and hotel accommodation. Any such changes will not affect the standard of your wildlife holiday.
  7. We do not accept any responsibility for loss or inconvenience due to missed departure.
  8. We cannot accept any liability for loss or injury due to acts or omissions by persons over whom we have no control.
  9. Clients must make us aware of any medical conditions or disability which may influence the holiday.
  10. Please ensure that you possess a valid 10 year passport.
  11. If you have any reason for complaints please notify your tour leader. Alternatively, you may state the nature of your complaint in writing as soon as you can, preferably within 28 days of completion of your wildlife holiday.