Burscough, Lancashire. Météo britannique. 26 Nov, 2018. Fin de la Journée ensoleillée comme les volées de vanneaux, surpris par un busard des roseaux dans les zones humides, prenez l'air à comme soleil se couche. Grand rassemblement des troupeaux d'hiver, presque toujours sur les mêmes champs chaque année, tous en vol et face à la forte brise de nord, de refroidissement. Credit : MediaWorldImages/Alamy Live News

• Contributeur: MediaWorldImages / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: R49XPB
• Taille du fichier: 24,7 MB (977,6 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3600 x 2401 px | 30,5 x 20,3 cm | 12 x 8 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 26 novembre 2018
• Lieu: Burscough,. UK

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The peewit call of the bird was associated with the legend of the seven whistlers – seven birds flying together by night, whose cries presaged disaster. This call was said to cry “bewitched, bewitched” and so bring evil to those who heard it. The legend was so widely-believed that in 1855 the Leicester Chronicle reported the case of Leicestershire miners who refused to go down the mines, stating that the seven whistlers had been heard overnight and that on two previous occasions when this had been ignored, lives had been lost. But the story that really gave the legend a high profile in folklore history concerned the Hartley colliery in Northumberland. A number of local folk heard the seven whistlers one night in 1862; the very next day the colliery was struck by a huge disaster, and 220 lives were lost. This once common bird of our farmed countryside has declined so rapidly in recent times. The many reasons behind the decline of this iconic bird follow a similar pattern to other bird species that are specialists of farmland habitats, namely the loss of mixed farming, the general intensification of agriculture and the loss of spring cropping.

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