He travels across Burkina Faso, Benin, and Togo before settling for a while in Senegal. After a few months, he's ready for a big trip and decides to leave Western Africa on February 24th, 2015. He starts from the region of Thiès in Senegal and heads north toward Mauritania. He crosses nearly half the Sahara desert in a day, then arrives in Morocco, and stops briefly between Casablanca and Rabat. In less than a month he's reached the Strait of Gibraltar. He crosses the sea, arrives in Andalusia and goes through Spain in a matter of days. He finally goes across the Pyrénées, travels through the South of France and reaches Switzerland. Transcending all borders, the migrating birds that are capable of such journeys can't help but fascinate us. Around 4'000 miles covered in slightly more than a month!

Along similar routes, men, women and children also undertake long and tortuous journeys hoping to get to a new life; they escape war, misery and violence. However these migrants' journeys provoke, at our latitudes, hostile or awkward looks rather than fascination or gestures of solidarity.