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

FERME CALLU
Callu Denis
Le Plaisir - 41160 Rahart



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. 

CHARDONNERET ELEGANT / EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH

(Carduelis carduelis)

The name, goldfinch, refers to the yellow of the wings.

There are two German names: the first is Distelfink, Thistle Chaffinch, the second is Stieglitz which comes from its «sticlitt» cry.

MORPHOLOGY / FLIGHT

Length: 14 cm - weight: 14 to 18 gr - longevity: 8 years

Short undulations

HABITAT

Hedged farmland, parks and gardens, edges and clearings of mixed forests.

FOOD

The goldfinch is essentially granivorous.

It looks for small seeds (thistles, cornflowers, burdocks, groundsel ...) that it finds mainly in wasteland and grass.

However, the young are fed on insects.

NEST

The nest is located at the end of a branch, a bifurcation in a shrub, always low in height and well hidden in the foliage.

The goldfinch’s nest is built with great care: it is a small deep cup, made up of herbaceous stems and lined with down and feathers.

The female lays 4 to 5 eggs, which she incubates alone for 12 to 14 days.

STATUS

Protected species

MIGRATION

Partial Migrant

PRESENCE

All year

BECOMING

Threatened and declining.

France has lost half of its goldfinches in the last 15 years.

One of the causes is the decline in numbers of wild herbs from which they consume the seeds.

SIZE : Small

Taille-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/chardonneret.elegant.html

NÉFLIER / MEDLAR

GRATAEGUS germanica (L) Kuntze = MESPILUS germanica L.

Family of Rosaceae group of Malaceae such as apple and sorb.

German Medlar is used in  horticulture. Of improved form compared to  wild medlar, though the latter  has a finer taste.

Thorny in the wild. Cultivated species produce larger fruits and are thornless.

In the springtime, beautiful solitary white flowers make the medlar a beautiful decorative tree.

The medlars ripen in November; they must be eaten while mushy.

The medlar acts on the intestinal tunic and on the blood  by increasing the power of osmosis.

The fruits are now consumed increasingly as jam, syrup or liquor.


To Discover :


 

Have a very nice walk

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