La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Birds in willow short-rotation coppice compared to other arable crops in central England and a review of bird census data from energy crops in the UK
Auteurs :	Rufus Sage, Auteur ; Mark Cunningham, Auteur ; Nigel Boatman, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ibis (148 MAR 2006)
Article en page(s) :	184-197
Résumé :	We present the results of spring and winter surveys of birds using 22 willow short-rotation coppice ( SRC) fields and 22 paired arable or grassland controls over a 5 year period in central and northern England. The study sites were linked to the first commercial wood-fuelled electricity plant in Yorkshire and were managed commercially. We use the findings of this study, in the context of other work on birds in energy crops, to suggest how birds may be affected by commercial cropping of SRC or energy grasses on UK farmland. For willow SRC, most existing farmland species were not completely displaced by SRC cropping. Even farmland specialists such as Skylark Alauda arvensis used cut SRC fields. Some species characteristic of scrub and wood-type habitats were attracted onto farmland by SRC. Birds were more abundant in hedgerows next to SRC than in those adjoining arable or grass. The interior of large SRC plots contained fewer birds than the edge-zone (

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