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Today was my last Common Bird Monitoring round for this spring in Eau Blanche river valley -Belgium. A valley covered with meadows, farms here producing beef/milk. I'm monitoring there since 1990! This led me to some reflections about #biodiversity & #meat 👇
#ornithology 1/9
#ornithology 1/9
If all farmland in BE were like this valley, we would not contemplate this kind of depressing #FarmlandBirdIndex graph. It shows the average trend of 15 species of bird specialized in farmland in Wallonia (source: @AvesBE & #DEMNA) 2/9
In Eau Blanche valley, Tree Sparrow, Meadow Pipit, Turtle Dove are also declining, but at least some of them are still present. Stonechat, scarce in 1990, are now abundant. Today, I saw Black & Red Kites, Black & White Storks all 4 in the same field ! Unthinkable 30 yrs ago. 3/9
