Parcours découverte en Loir et Cher- Oiseaux de nos Fermes et de nos Vignobles

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.

TROGLODYTE MIGNON / WREN

(Troglodytes troglodytes)

This is a small brown-russet bird seen in thickets, its short tail often pointing upwards.

MORPHOLOGY / FLIGHT

Length : 9-10 cm – weight: 8-13 g – longevity: 6 years

Low, direct and rapid

HABITAT

Varied environments, parks and gardens, undergrowth.

FOOD

Small insects, larvae, spiders

NEST

Builds its nest in April in the hollows of roots and in holes in riverbanks, rocks and trees.

STATUS

Protected species

MIGRATION

Migratory in northern Europe - Sedentary elsewhere.

PRESENCE

All year

BECOMING

Few concerns, non-endangered species which appears to be benefiting from the warming of the climate.

SIZE : Very small

Taille-tres-petit

Chant :

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/troglodyte.mignon.html

AUBÉPINE / HAWTHORN

CRATAEGUS monogyna Jack

Family of Rosaceae in the group of Malaceae, along with, e.g., the serviceberry and apple tree.
Common names: May. Birdpears. White thorn. The origin is the Greek CRATOS which means strength (refering to the hardness of the wood).

The leaves are cut out, the white flowers grouped and fragrant have a single pistil, which means that fruit has an insipid taste and only 1one pit. It is the shrub of rural and defensive hedges.

Used in pharmacy, it is a cardiac regulator.

The herbal tea made from flowers is calming for nervous children.

Decorative trees in the parks: The pink spine variety Rubra plena and the pendula variety with drooping branches.

NOTE: In our hedges, we can find another kind of hawthorn - CRATAEGUS laevigata (Poir) DC - with two pistils, and thus two pits.