Promenades ornithologiques dans la haute vallée de la Clarée (Hautes-Alpes)

The Briançonnais is a natural French region situated on the north of the Hautes-Alpes department, around the town of Briançon. It is bordered in the north by the Savoie department, by the department of Isère in the West, by the department of Drôme in the south-west, by the department of the Alpes de Haute-Provence in the south and by Italy (province of Piedmont) to the east. The altitudinal range varies from 900 to 4100 meters at the top of the Barre des Ecrins. The Briançonnais is divided by the upper valley of the Durance and by the valleys of the Guisane, the Vallouise, the Romanche and the Clarée. This latter, little known and still wild, is protected as a natural site since 1992: it is a very interesting area to watch the typical high mountain birds, especially between May and September.
Élie Ducos, a passionate young birder who animates the « Grandeur Nature » broadcast on the RAM radio, proposes four ornithological interesting circuits in the upper valley of the Clarée above the village of Névache.