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

DOMAINE SEVIN
SEVIN Cyrille
201 rue de Chancelée - 41250 Mont près Chambord



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. 

BRUANT PROYER

(Emberiza calandra)

The corn bunting is gregarious, living in scattered flocks.

It has a remarkable beak which is strong and conical with the edge of the upper mandible curved inwards.

On the upper mandible, it has a "tooth" which fits into a notch in the lower mandible.

MORPHOLOGY / FLIGHT

Size 18 to 19cm - weight: 38 to 55g – life expectancy: can reach 10 years.

Extended undulations in long flight; dangling legs and heavy appearance in short flight.

HABITAT

The corn bunting chooses large open cultivated areas or hayfields.

It enjoys singing in high-up places but will also make do with bushes, power lines or fence posts.

FOOD

It feeds on seeds, grasses, leaves, etc., on the ground. Insects and spiders are caught when feeding juveniles.

NEST

The nest is built on the ground. It is made of grasses, rootlets and hair. The male visits 2 or 3 females.

1 to 2 clutches of 3 to 5 eggs.

STATUS

Protected species

MIGRATION

Sedentary in France

PRESENCE

All year

BECOMING

This species is in significant decline

SIZE : Small

Chant :

Hear the song on Oiseaux.net: http://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/bruant.proyer.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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