SOVON, (1988) Remember: The Ortolan in 1985 - 1987. LIMOSA 61 (2): 101-101.

Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana Optimistic about the stories we Ortolan back to the beginning of this century. Thijsse wrote an increase due to the mines as a breeding bird. Presumably, the Ortolan time throughout small-scale arable fields on sandy soils South and East Netherlands. During this century, especially after the war when the landscape and crop choices in agriculture greatly changed, came the livelihoods of the Ortolan in tribulation. Rapidly pulled back the species. in a special issue, the Bird Year (32: 105-169) here extensive attention. Almost aile items the Ortolan in recent decades in minor written and not unjustly. today, we actually kind aileen still found in a small dekzandgebieden number in the border region in the eastern Netherlands.

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