Document type: article published in Le Monde (subscribers only)
Author: Lina Tamine
Preview: One by one, the birds are carefully picked up, then fed crickets with a pair of tongs. At the Faune Alfort wild animal center, located within the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (Val-de-Marne), caretakers, trainees and volunteers, dressed in blue and white lab coats, cross paths and bustle about seven days a week. Two trainees from the association (...) are busy feeding some 250 young swifts taken in over the last few weeks, in a room refurbished for the occasion. (...) Pending favorable weather conditions for their release, the chicks are housed in cardboard boxes and require constant care. "We feed them four times a day, that's what we spend our days doing".he adds.
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