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Queyras Regional Nature Park

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Where granite peaks and windswept meadows define the borderlands between France and Italy, Queyras Regional Nature Park rises as one of Europe's most austere and rewarding mountain landscapes. At elevations reaching beyond 3,000 metres, the park embodies the tundra-like character of high alpine terrain, where short growing seasons and intense UV exposure have sculpted an ecosystem of remarkable resilience. Sparse alpine grasslands, dwarf shrub communities, and rocky scree dominate the exposed ridges, while deeper valleys harbour stunted conifers and herbaceous mosaics adapted to the harsh ET climate—one of perpetual cold and limited precipitation. Here, where summer brings merely a brief window of green before autumn's return, the wildlife reflects this severity: small mammals burrow beneath the turf, birds of prey quarter the thermals above the passes, and alpine songbirds forage in the thin air. Pikas, marmots, and other high-altitude specialists move through crevices and talus slopes with evolutionary precision honed over millennia. Insects, too, thrive in surprising abundance where few predators can reach them.

WILDLIFE

Month

Type

Bearded Vulture

Gypaetus barbatus

Aquila chrysaetos

Common Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Cuculus canorus

Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Egretta garzetta

European Honey Buzzard

Pernis apivorus

Griffon Vulture

Short-toed Snake Eagle

Circaetus gallicus

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Accipiter nisus

Western Marsh Harrier

Circus aeruginosus

Eurasian Eagle-Owl

Eurasian Wryneck

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Dendrocopos major

Falco tinnunculus

Red-backed Shrike

Lanius collurio

Garrulus glandarius

Eurasian Magpie

Northern Nutcracker

Nucifraga caryocatactes

Red-billed Chough

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Pyrrhocorax graculus

Lophophanes cristatus

Poecile palustris

Poecile montanus

Eurasian Blue Tit

Cyanistes caeruleus

Lullula arborea

Eurasian Crag Martin

Ptyonoprogne rupestris

Hirundo rustica

Western House Martin

Delichon urbicum

Long-tailed Tit

Aegithalos caudatus

Western Bonelli's Warbler

Phylloscopus bonelli

Common Chiffchaff

Phylloscopus collybita

Eurasian Blackcap

Sylvia atricapilla

Regulus regulus

Troglodytes troglodytes

Tichodroma muraria

Eurasian Treecreeper

Certhia familiaris

Short-toed Treecreeper

Certhia brachydactyla

Turdus philomelos

Turdus viscivorus

Common Blackbird

Turdus torquatus

Erithacus rubecula

European Pied Flycatcher

Ficedula hypoleuca

Phoenicurus ochruros

Common Redstart

Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Common Rock Thrush

Monticola saxatilis

Saxicola rubetra

Northern Wheatear

Oenanthe oenanthe

White-throated Dipper

Cinclus cinclus

Petronia petronia

White-winged Snowfinch

Montifringilla nivalis

Italian Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Alpine Accentor

Prunella collaris

Prunella modularis

Western Yellow Wagtail

Motacilla flava

Motacilla cinerea

Anthus trivialis

Anthus spinoletta

Eurasian Chaffinch

Fringilla coelebs

Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

European Greenfinch

Chloris chloris

Linaria cannabina

Loxia curvirostra

European Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis

Carduelis citrinella

Serinus serinus

Eurasian Siskin

Emberiza citrinella

Acanthis flammea

Anas platyrhynchos

Coturnix coturnix

Tachymarptis melba

Common Wood Pigeon

Columba palumbus

Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropus

Eurasian Scops Owl

Black Woodpecker

Dryocopus martius

European Green Woodpecker

Red-footed Falcon

Falco vespertinus

Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

Western Jackdaw

Coloeus monedula

Eurasian Skylark

Alauda arvensis

Phylloscopus trochilus

Common Firecrest

Regulus ignicapilla

Spotted Flycatcher

Muscicapa striata

Anthus pratensis

Fringilla montifringilla

Emberiza cirlus

Spatula querquedula

Northern Shoveler

Spatula clypeata

Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Reeves's Pheasant

Syrmaticus reevesii

European Turtle Dove

Streptopelia turtur

Eurasian Collared Dove

Streptopelia decaocto

Black-winged Stilt

Himantopus himantopus

Eurasian Dotterel

Eudromias morinellus

Northern Lapwing

Vanellus vanellus

Eurasian Woodcock

Scolopax rusticola

Tringa glareola

Common Greenshank

Tringa nebularia

Stilt Sandpiper

Calidris himantopus

Yellow-legged Gull

Larus michahellis

Ardeola ralloides

Western Cattle Egret

Cinereous Vulture

Aegypius monachus

Montagu's Harrier

Circus pygargus

Aegolius funereus

Eurasian Pygmy Owl

Glaucidium passerinum

Common Kingfisher

European Bee-eater

Merops apiaster

Acrocephalus palustris

Common Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

Common Nightingale

Luscinia megarhynchos

Blue Rock Thrush

Monticola solitarius

European Stonechat

Saxicola rubicola

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Passer montanus

Spanish Sparrow

Passer hispaniolensis

Coccothraustes coccothraustes

Ortolan Bunting

Emberiza hortulana

Marmota marmota

Western Roe Deer

Capreolus capreolus

European Fat Dormouse

European Garden Dormouse

Eliomys quercinus

Eurasian Red Squirrel

Sciurus vulgaris

Microtus arvalis

Common Whiskered Myotis

Myotis mystacinus

European Badger

Mustela erminea

Northern Chamois

Rupicapra rupicapra

Western Red Deer

European Mouflon

Ovis aries musimon

Lepus europaeus

European Rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

European Snow Vole

Chionomys nivalis

Long-tailed Field Mouse

Apodemus sylvaticus

Myotis crypticus

Daubenton's Myotis

Myotis daubentonii

Escalera's Myotis

Myotis escalerai

Natterer's Myotis

Myotis nattereri

Greater Noctule

Nyctalus lasiopterus

Leisler's Noctule

Nyctalus leisleri

Kuhl's Pipistrelle

Pipistrellus kuhlii

Common Pipistrelle

Pipistrellus pipistrellus

Western Barbastelle

Barbastella barbastellus

Brown Long-eared Bat

Plecotus auritus

Alpine Long-eared Bat

Plecotus macrobullaris

Savi's Pipistrelle

Greater Horseshoe Bat

Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

European Pine Marten

Mustela nivalis

Eurasian Wild Boar

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Natural environment

Queyras Regional Nature Park

Very cold conditions shape most of the year.

Usual climateTundraMountain · High mountain

Average annual temperature 1.7 °C Average of the twelve monthly means

Average elevation 2,255 m Mountain

Climate pattern Tundra Also: Cold humid with cool summers

A year of temperatures

Monthly means, with the coldest and warmest highlighted

Monthly minimum · January -7.9 °C Monthly maximum · July 12.3 °C

Global temperature scale

−40°−20°0°20°40°

Terrain and elevation

2,255 m · Mountain

Average terrain elevation estimate. This hotspot also includes high-mountain areas; the figure does not represent its highest summits.

Elevation scale

2,255 m

02,0004,0006,0008,000m

Mountain

Long-term climate averages, not live weather.

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