Home for the turning neck: Nest box campaign by the Bund Naturschutz Gauting in Grubmühlerfeld

Reversible necks and redstart can look forward to it: The Gauting Nature Conservation Association has installed new nesting boxes for them in Grubmühlerfeld - and asks to keep their distance.

Gauting - The Bund Naturschutz Gauting (BN) has installed nesting boxes for endangered bird species on its care areas in Grubmühlerfeld.

Chairwoman Jutta Kreuzer asks walkers to keep their distance from the nesting boxes and not to unnecessarily disturb the birds.

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There should be more nesting opportunities for the turn neck in the future in the Grubmühlerfeld.

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The focus is on the reversible neck, which is threatened with extinction, and the redstart, which is also endangered.

Both are returning from their winter quarters in the dry savannas of West and Central Africa these days.

The turning neck, explains Jutta Kreuzer, needs poor and patchy habitats in which it can look for ants and their pupae on the ground.

BN Gauting is hoping for breeding birds thanks to new nesting boxes

The BN maintains a poor lawn in the flood basin of the Würm, on which turning necks have already been spotted.

Although a species of woodpecker, the wryneck cannot build a nesting hole itself - hence the nesting boxes in which the BN hopes a breeding pair could settle.

So far, the turning neck has only been found in Unterbrunn wood.

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The redstart feels at home in such nesting boxes.

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There were no breeding redstart in the district for a long time, but there were some in transit.

These birds need special, clear nesting holes, but there are also differences among redstart.

The Gautingen conservationists are trying a new nest box;

whether the birds will accept it remains to be seen by late summer.

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