Saint-Viâtre

History

The village was originally called Tremblevif, from the Latin for "aspen" and "village", but suggesting in the popular imagination a place prone to swamp fever and trembling limbs. In 1854, worried that outsiders might be put off, the villagers successfully petitioned to change the name to Saint-Viâtre in honour of a hermit, traditionally known as Viâtre, who had lived in the forests of Sologne. His tomb is in the crypt of the village church.

Most-observed species

• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  945
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  826
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  781
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  692
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  674
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  432
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  399
• Eurasian Blackcap

  Sylvia atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  366

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2008-11-05
  4 km NNE of Mézières-en-Brenne, France
• M 3 — 2008-06-07
  3 km ENE of Cangey, France
• M 3 — 2007-12-17
  3 km W of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
• M 3.4 — 2007-12-17
  3 km W of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
• M 3.4 — 2007-08-30
  9 km NNE of Châtillon-sur-Indre, France
• M 2.6 — 2004-12-04
  10 km SSE of Luçay-le-Mâle, France