The
fauna of the Vanoise National Park is very rich and varied for anyone
who takes time to watch it.
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If you take
the time to observe the wildlife, you will see that the Park has a
rich and varied fauna. The Park has the largest population of Alpine
ibex in France, that is to say, 2000 individuals, a third of the
total French population.
There are even more chamois
- about 5500. |
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Among the smaller
mammals, there are the rodents, such as the Alpine hare, with its
white winter coat, the marmot,
living in alpine meadows, several voles, including the snow vole,
and the yellow-necked fieldmouse.
Among the carnivores, there are the fox, badger, pine marten, stoat
and weasel. There are bats such as the common pipistrelle and the
northern long-eared bat and insectivores such as the water shrew. |
Alpine
hare in winter
© PNV
/ Maurice Mollard |
Among
the birds, there are golden eagles, (20 pairs), the
ptarmigan, the black
grouse, rock partridges, eagle owls, Tengmalm's owls, black woodpeckers,
three-toed woodpeckers (in France, present only in Savoie and Haute-Savoie),
the rock thrush, pied flycatchers, wall creepers, crossbills, rock
sparrows and nutcrackers. A total of 120 bird species breed in the
Vanoise.
The bearded
vulture is increasingly present and hopefully it too will one
day breed in the Park. |
As
for the amphibians, there are the alpine newt, the natterjack toad
and the common or grass frog; the reptiles include the viviparious
lizard, the smooth snake, the Aesculapian snake and the asp viper.
There are hundreds of insect species, some spectacular, such as the
Apollo butterfly and the beetle, Rosalia Longicorn, but also other,
less flamboyant species, some of which are new to science. |
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Reddish-brown
frog
© PNV / Patrick Folliet |
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Fauna