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

FERME DES 4 VENTS
David PESCHARD - Marie-Pierre Boutin
Villeroclin - 6 rue des Quatre Vents - 41500 La Chapelle Saint Martin en Plaine



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. 

MERLE NOIR / COMMON BLACKBIRD

(Turdus merula)

It loves scraping under dead leaves in search of food.

And how bland our summer evenings would be without that fluting, melodious, varied song which the blackbird sings to us perched at the top of a tree !

MORPHOLOGY / FLIGHT

Length: 24 to 27cm - weight: 80 to 130g – life expectancy: up to 16 years.

Lively flight, often quite low. Raises its tail as it lands.

HABITAT

The blackbird is a very common forest bird now found in urban parks and gardens.

FOOD

It feeds on worms, insects and invertebrates on the ground in spring and summer. It feeds more on berries and fruit in winter. It will eat from feeders.

NEST

The nest is a grass and mud cup in a tree, hedge or a cavity in a wall about 1.5m off the ground.

2 to 3 clutches of 3 to 6 spotted blue-green eggs.

Nests are often predated by cats and members of the crow family.

STATUS

Huntable species

MIGRATION

Partial migrant.

There is considerable variation between regions and habitats.

The populations of northern and eastern Europe come to winter in the south of France.

Elsewhere, migration is limited.

PRESENCE

All year

BECOMING

Stable numbers.

The blackbird has progressed by adapting to urban areas.

SIZE : Medium

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/merle.noir.html



 

Have a very nice walk

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