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

FERME DE GORGEAT
BOULAI Michel
Ferme de Gorgeat - 41100 AZÉ



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. 

MESANGE CHARBONNIERE / GREAT TIT

(Parus major)

The parents take care of the young for forty days after their birth, until the young have all of their feathers.

Its black head is extended by a wide bib in the male, and a narrow bib in the female.

MORPHOLOGY / FLIGHT

Length: 14 cm – wingspan: 25 cm – weight: 15-21 gr – longevity: 2-3 years

Undulating flight

HABITAT

Wooded areas of all kinds: forests, parks, gardens.

FOOD

Essentially insectivorous, eats caterpillars and also spiders. In the winter it frequents feeding boxes and eats grains and fruits.

NEST

Cup-shaped nest made from moss which it decorates with feathers on natural or artificial supports: trees, nesting boxes, walls.

Lays 3-11 eggs up to twice a years which it incubates for 13-14 days.

STATUS

Improving, not endangered

MIGRATION

Sedentary

PRESENCE

All year

BECOMING

Gregarius, it lives and feeds in small groups outside the mating season.

SIZE : Small

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/mesange.charbonniere.html

SUREAU

SAMBUCUS nigra L.
Family of Adoxaceae
Common names: Black elder. Judas Tree
Note: Fossil flowers have been found in Baltic amber.

Widespread shrub in uncultivated places. The young stems contain a white marrow used for anatomical cuts in laboratories.

Flutes are made by removing the marrow.

With these lovely perfumed flowers, donuts, jam or lemonade can be made.

Black fruits can be made into jam.

Medicinal qualities: bark and roots are purgative and flowers are sudorific.

 



 

Have a very nice walk

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