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The return of the Old Man

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Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.

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Common Moorhens at Hannover Zoo

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The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can even be scarce regionally, but overall it is not a difficult bird to find in Germany so long as a cunning birder frequents reedy wetlands. Since then, I have maintained full understanding of their penchant for reeds.

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Storm’s Stork

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Apparently, as captain of a ship, he collected specimens in Southeast Asia including Borneo, and sent them to a museum in Germany. The stork was actually bred in captivity at the San Diego Zoo ( source ) – in fact, the very detailed Wikipedia page of the bird has a photo taken at the zoo.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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Here in Germany, we don’t wish we had. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. Because we never have had.

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Greater Rheas: Germany’s new Big Bird

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Germany is underrated as a birding destination. Greater Rheas, a species the Germans call Nandu, are very popular in Germany and frequently kept in zoos as well as private enclosures. The following map (taken from the highly esteemed site ornitho.de ) shows all observations of Greater Rheas throughout Germany since 1999.

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PETA Wants Knut Castrated!

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He was the cute little polar bear whose birth at the Berlin Zoo was so controversial because his mother rejected him. PETA Germany's position is that he should be castrated so he doesn't mate with his cousin Giovanna. Tags: zoos knut Germany polar bear PETA. He was raised by a trainer. How suggestive!

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The Golden Pheasant

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But the looks of the adult male Golden Pheasant make it an attractive bird for animal parks, zoos, and similar places – for example, it has its own webpage at Seaworld and at a place called Marineland on the Cote D’Azur. ” (source: Fritz Hillenbrand, Underground Humour in Nazi Germany: 1933-1945, Routledge: London).

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