Location of La Mare aux Oiseaux
La Mare aux Oiseaux is on the Île de Fédrun, one of the 7 islands which make up the municipality of Saint-Joachim in the Loire-Atlantique region, right in the heart of the Brière Regional Nature Park.
This is where the Loire finishes its journey before flowing into the ocean; this is where the mighty river has created a magical landscape of channels, islands, marshes, mudflats which are revealed at low tide, reed beds and meadows which are flooded for a few days every year.
This place is home to the sacred ibis and the herring gull, the lapwing and the white stilt, hundreds of ducks, shad, eels, elvers and lampreys.
La Mare aux Oiseaux is one of the picturesque thatched cottages on the narrow road which encircles the unspoilt surroundings of the island.
Getting here
Take Rue de la Rinais and Rue du Millaud towards Fédrun to access the island from the south or Rue Guy Môquet and Chaum. des Martins to access the island from the east.
The A10 and the A11 from Paris
The N165 and the N171 from Nantes
The D213 from La Baule
The N171 from Saint-Nazaire
The high-speed train station in Saint-Nazaire is 20 minutes from La Mare aux Oiseaux.
The Société de Transport de l'Agglomération Nazairienne provides a T3 bus service from Saint-Nazaire’s high-speed train station to the centre of Saint-Joachim.
Nantes Atlantique Airport is just one hour from La Mare aux Oiseaux
Distances
From Saint-Joachim
