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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Egyptian vulture clearly knowing where I left my smartphone “Lahme Ente” – lame duck Any slow person may be called a “lame duck“ in German, but today it is most commonly used in traffic to describe an annoyingly slow car. The origin of this expression clearly lies in the slow, dopey waddling gait of a duck on land.

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After The Birds Of Summer Have Gone

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It is the featureless nature of the sea of blue, spanning from horizon to horizon, its neglect of offering a foothold to the wandering eye that binds my thoughts. They are the first of our migrant breeders to go, and they are gone by the beginning of August. Winter has ducks and gulls and finches. They have gone. That is early.

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