00:00They had disappeared for a long time, the last phoco-pilgrim that had been seen in Île-de-France
00:19dates back to 1947.
00:20Since the ban of the DTT and especially since the protection of raptors in France since
00:27the law of 1976, the number of phoco-pilgrims has globally increased and it was necessary
00:33to wait until 2011, so 36 years, for the phoco-pilgrims to be seen in Paris.
00:40In the city, you can find high-rise buildings that remind you of cliffs and you can find
00:58food.
00:59The food is birds, especially pigeons.
01:02The phoco-pilgrim eats pigeons.
01:06This return is natural.
01:07We often hear false ideas, saying that it is the city of Paris that organized the return
01:12of the pilgrims to scare away the pigeons.
01:15It is entirely false, of course.
01:16We saw them up close, we went into their intimacy and that was very important to us.
01:39There are things that we saw in the Nichoir that allowed us to understand how things
01:43were going and to misunderstand the va-et-viens that we observed from the outside.
01:49In Beaugrenelle, when young people take their flight, it is dangerous.
01:53It is dangerous because they leave very high, more than 100 meters, but the landing points
02:01in the environment are few.
02:03However, a young pilgrim flies badly at the start and so often he can be found on the
02:10ground.
02:11So we intervene to capture him and then put him back on the ground from the terrace of
02:18a nearby tower.
02:19I have some colleagues who win, in my opinion, a little quickly, because the towers of Chauvage
02:38in the 15th or Ivry-sur-Seine are likely to be demolished.
02:42So, already, just on that level, things are not permanent.
02:48Then it remains fragile because the threats have not disappeared.
02:51Globally, unfortunately, the falcon-pilgrims continue to be poisoned, including in an
03:00urban environment.
03:01There is no good biodiversity or bad biodiversity.
03:05The return of the falcon-pilgrim to the city is excellent news.
03:10In an ocean of bad news.
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