{"id":2823,"date":"2015-11-17T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:25:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:25:54","slug":"artificial-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/artificial-nests\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first artificial nests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Pascal<\/a>
Pascal Grand climbing a 35m Scots Pine to build an artificial osprey nest at its summit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An important part of our Osprey reintroduction project consists\u00a0of building artificial nests to give the birds a helping hand when they return to Switzerland to breed. Once we had identified potentially suitable \u00a0trees and obtained permission to build nests in their tree tops, Daniel Schmidt (pictured in action above) came from Germany to demonstrate and provide training in the art of building artificial nests that no Osprey would be able to refuse. Three Fribourg ornithologists who are also very experienced tree-climbers (Christian Grand, Pascal Grand and Henri Vigneau)\u00a0helped\u00a0Daniel to build the first nest, and\u00a0then went on to build a second\u00a0nest\u00a0the following day. \u00a0Michel Beaud,\u00a0Emile Curty, Denis Landenbergue and Wendy Strahm\u00a0also helped out in this operation.<\/p>\n

Osprey nests are usually built on a\u00a0tall tree with commanding views, so\u00a0 the birds can have a panoramic 360\u00b0 view. Our first two nests were built at the top of 35m tall Scots Pines, a difficult operation so we were lucky to have good weather with little wind. It will probably take several years before our released birds\u00a0return, and we are optimistic that when\u00a0they do, they will find these custom-made platforms irresistible. Many thanks to the whole team for these first two beautiful nests, and for the many more that we are already planning on building.<\/p>\n

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\"Daniel<\/a>
Daniel Schmidt showing Christian Grand some fine points about nest-building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The nest-building team admiring Daniel Schmidt’s aerial talents from the ground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An important part of our Osprey reintroduction project consists\u00a0of building artificial nests to give the birds a helping hand when they return to Switzerland to breed. Once we had identified potentially suitable \u00a0trees and obtained permission to build nests in their tree tops, Daniel Schmidt (pictured in action above) came from Germany to demonstrate and … Continue reading Our first artificial nests<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5MO3H-Jx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}