Max and her new beau, 1 March 2009 (photo © Heide Buergermeister)
Updated 3 March, 09:00 Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Max has a new beau! But what will happen, asks the Museum of Natural History in Fribourg, when the father of her young for the past three seasons shows up at the nest?
Max, a female white stork born near Avenches, Vaud in Switzerland, is the longest-living satellite-tracked bird in the world. She has a large fan club, thanks to the museum, which helps the public follow Max’s travels and activities.
Max had a previous male companion, the father of her offspring for the past three years. Museum authorities say that Sunday morning, 1 March, a new male approached Max’s nest in Tuefingen, Germany.
Max returns to the nest every year after spending the early winter further south, often in Spain.
Max hesitated for a while, but by Sunday afternoon she’d let the male into her nest and the two began to make beautiful stork music together.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 2 March 2009.
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Tags: Community, Germany, male, Max, offspring, Spain, Switzerland, tracked bird, white crane
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 am
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