A wryneck family moved into one of our 400 nesting boxes
Nesting Boxes
for biodiversity
There is no requirement to put up nesting boxes, it simply goes hand in hand with ecology. Rosehip is a newly introduced crop, therefore, there is very little scientific record about the pests and pathogens in this type of plantation.
It can be observed, that rosehips are generally comfortable at the edge of the forest. If you go out in the wild rosehips can be easily encountered since a plant living in its own ecological system can well develop and grow. Naturally, the ecological community of life gives a balance to the system.
By creating habitat for birds - in addition to the fact that the twig-branch system of the rosehip bush is excellent for nesting birds - we are also trying to create habitat for them by putting out these dens and waterers. There are already more than 400 nesting boxes on the plantation, and more than 80% of them are inhabited and used by birds.
Based on scientifically rigorous surveys, it can be said that from an area of 1 hectare with such a density of nesting boxes, the tits alone can bring 39kg of insects and worms and various larval stages of insects into their nests. Multiplying to our 150 hectares, it turns out that these tiny birds can collect more than 4 tons of insects from the area, thus reducing the pest pressure in our plantation and protecting the population ecologically.
A wryneck family moved in
When we first realized that a wryneck family nested into one of the 400 nesting boxes that we planted to create true biodiversity, it took our breath away.
We have a very colourful population of birds settled in our area. This year, for example, we took a photo of a wryneck family. They have a notional value of about 400e HUF: the nesting box contained 7 eggs and the mother.
We are very happy that we could create an ecosystem, where even these rare spieces find their inhabitat.