Max the white stork and partner, 2009 (photo ©H Buergermeister)

Tuefingen/Salem, Germany (GenevaLunch) – Max the white stork has a new family, with little heads popping above the top of the nest where the 10-year-old mother has been sitting on her eggs. For the time being the number of new little ones is unknown, but between 2002 and 2009 Max has given birth to 20 offspring. She was born in May 1999 near Avenches, in Switzerland, but she and her regular partner meet up and build a nest each spring on the north side of Lake Constance.

Max is part of a major white stork tracking programme in Europe, to save the birds from extinction. Details about the stork tracking programme, in French, at the Fribourg Natural History Museum site.

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