Parcours découverte loir et cher, oiseaux de nos fermes et de nox vignobles , Val de Loire
lpo loir et cher

FERME DE MORILLARD
GABILLEAU Frédéric et Valérie
Le Haut de Morillard - 41190 Lancôme



Sign 1 - Présentation

 

Dear Friends
Thank you for deciding to come and take a look around this farm, using a marked path which will allow you to become better acquainted with this peaceful environment in which birds develop and plants grow, some of which are of species which you may not know.

Don’t forget that you are a guest of nature and should respect it by observing a silence which will
enable you to listen to the melodious songs of our friends the birds, getting to know more about their behaviour.

Your host will give you all the information you need to better understand the world of agriculture and viticulture and the efforts being made to work in harmony with the environment.

This action has a number of objectives:

  • Rebuild the links between the people of town and country
  • Make the greatest number possible of people aware of the flora and fauna, and improve their knowledge of them.  
  • Make people aware of the fragile equilibrium of biodiversity.
  • Let people know about the ways used by certain actors in the rural world to conserve the countryside and enable them to discover an agricultural environment which remains little known and possibly much misunderstood by townspeople.
  • Encourage conventional farmers to embrace the same efforts as used by their colleagues in organic agriculture and “agriculture raisonnée” (in which chemical inputs are used minimally) in order to preserve biodiversity.
  • Maintain or develop family farms’ direct (‘farm-gate’) sales. 

ALOUETTE DES CHAMPS / SKYLARK

(Alauda arvensis Linnaeus)

A virtuoso of singing with discreet plumage..

MORPHOLOGY / FLIGHT

Longévité : 12 ans / Size: 18-19 cm - Average weight: 26-50 g - Longevity: 12 years

Can often be seen flying at a very high level, until it is invisible to the naked eye, singing uninterruptedly.

Outside the nest season, flight usually in scattered troops.

HABITAT

Likes open land more or less covered by herbaceous vegetation, especially cereal crops, but also wasteland, dry meadows, uncultivated places in rural areas.

Open land from the coast to the Alpine meadows.

FOOD

Prefers insects in summer, seeds of cereals and wild plants; in to other seasons of likes larvae, earthworms.e.

NEST

Is installed uncovered or at the foot of a tuft. Eggs: from 3 to 5. Hatchings: up to 4 possible per year.Incubation: 11 days; young fly off at the age of 18-20 days..

STATUS

There is no ban on hunting. Slow but steady decline.

Loss of 20% of its workforce population in less than 15 years.

MIGRATION

Sedentary in the West and the South. Partial migrant in northern and western Europe.

Regularly winter in the milder parts of the continent.

Wintering areas poorly known, probably Iberian peninsula and Maghreb.

PRESENCE

All year

BECOMING

There is no ban on hunting.

SIZE : small

Taille-petit

 

Hear the song from the cd "Écouter pour voir les oiseaux" :



Merci au CORIF (Centre ornithologique Île-de-France) pour la mise à disposition des enregistrements. http://www.corif.net/

Read more on Oiseaux.net: http://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/alouette.des.champs.html

LIERRE / IVY

HEDERA helix L.
Family of Araliaceae
Common names: Ivy. St. John’s Grass.
Latin origin: Haedere = to attach and helix = in spiral form.

It is a vine that runs  on the plant or support with clip-like spikes but without sucking the sap of the support. Leaves are alternate and persistent, they can be lobed or whole at the time of flowering and the formation of fruits.

Fruits, known as‘Bluish Druids’ are TOXIC to humans, but are liked by  pigeons. They have purgative properties.
Some species are decorative.

Ivy was the emblem of youth among the ancient Greeks. They were used as ornaments for their God BACCHUS.




 

Have a very nice walk

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