What kind of lover are you?
Wacky, fun Valentine’s ideas for the love-bird in your life
Downloadable bird mating calls, fun e-cards, quirky animal facts, and a day out
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) has devised the perfect solution for a fun and totally different Valentine’s Day. Potential love-birds can beckon the object of their desire with a bird mating call, send a fun e-card and amaze with their knowledge of saucy animal facts. The e-cards with wacky photos combined with downloadable mating call ring tones will inspire, amuse and help vulnerable species and wetlands at the same time. With no paper involved - it’s good for the environment too.
There are eight mating call sound tracks that can be downloaded as mobile phone ring tones or combined with one of a selection of e-cards with fun images. You can choose the most appropriate mating call according to what kind of lover you are – or want to be! Choose from romantic (the serenading song thrush), to authoritative (the booming bittern) or even the flirty (the cheeky eider)
Download from the WWT web site: www.wwt.org.uk/valentines or send it via Facebook from the official WWT facebook page. The cards can also be used as an invitation for a romantic, and totally different Valentine’s Day date at one of WWT’s nine wetland centres across the UK. WWT has created some fun leaflets packed with quirky and risqué love-inspired facts about the strategies that wildlife and plants use in romance, copulation and competition for mates. Simply visit www.wwt.org.uk/valentines and download the most appropriate ‘(Wetlands) Lover’s Walk’ leaflet for you -whether you are still on your first few dates, are with a long term partner, or are even a singleton looking for love. Created with the help of TV presenter, naturalist and ‘heartthrob’ Nick Baker, they make fun reading, and will give you immediate encyclopedic knowledge to amaze and impress your valentine, whether you giggle at them on the sofa at home or use them on your date to a WWT wetland centre. You can also see how many of the wetland plants, birds or animals you can spot between you as you enjoy your romantic ‘lover’s walk’.
Nick Baker said: “Wetland wildlife are surprisingly creative and ingenious when it comes to their courtship activities - perhaps we can learn from nature. Biomimicry is the science of taking inspiration from nature and has solved many of our technology problems, so there’s no reason why that shouldn’t apply to relationships too. Their quirky love calls may just work in attracting a human mate - sending one to your valentine this year will definitely make them smile and isn’t that half the battle in the language of love? Have you ever heard the risqué call of an eider duck?”
