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Max the stork loses one of three young

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:17:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Max the stork, for those of you who follow the details of Switzerland’s most famous migratory bird, has lost one of three young born in April. The other two, now three weeks old, appear to be thriving, says the Fribourg Natural History Museum 9 May, without providing details about what may have [...]

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It’s spring! says mother stork Max

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:59:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Max the stork now has three little ones in the family nest on the Swiss-German border. This is Max’s 11th time around as mother, and she and her mate have managed to keep all three young birds alive during their first week, despite high winds and unseasonably cold temperatures. Max, the world’s [...]

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Max the stork lines her nest with little ones

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:41:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Max the stork, whose north-south migrations have been closely followed by thousands since she was banded 13 years ago, has given birth to at least two young birds, the Fribourg Natural History Museum reports. This is the 11th time Max has raised young ones. She has been tracked longer than any bird [...]

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A long winter’s end in sight, with Max heading up the Rhone

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:03:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Max the white stork, who offers Switzerland signs of the seasons, is on her way back home from her winter vacation spot in Spain. The Natural History Museum of Fribourg, which tracks the bird, says she is now in Montpellier, after a pause near the Spanish-French border in Figueras, and she will [...]

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Max staying put in warmer Spain

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:35:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Keep the woolens handy, for Max the stork is sitting tight in Catalonia and she isn’t in a hurry to come home. Groundhog shadows may give us clues to the length of winter in some countries, but in Switzerland it’s Max the stork, banded and followed by the Fribourg Natural History Museum. [...]

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Max says: spring is on the way

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:28:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Max knows something the rest of us don’t: spring is on the way. Freezing temperatures throughout Switzerland for the next few days and record snowfalls make it hard to believe, but one of the first harbingers of spring, Max the stork, has started her return north from the area around Madrid in [...]

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Summer is over, says Max the stork

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:02:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND – Max, the Swiss-born white stork who has been tracked for longer than any other bird in the wild, left her summer home in Tuefingen, Saturday 10 September. The Fribourg Natural History Museum, which banded and tracks the bird, says that for the first time in her 13 years of winter migrations, she [...]

Max’s babies take to the air

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:22:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Max, the world’s longest banded stork, has sent another batch of babies out into the world, with all three of the babies learning to fly by Sunday 26 June. The three were born in early May, bring to 26 the number of offspring Max has had in nine years. The family retreated [...]

Max the stork family: and baby makes five

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:23:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Good news for Max the Swiss stork fans: a third baby bird has been spotted in the nest, making Max’s 2011 family the same size as her usual ones. Only two young ones had been spotted before this week until official photographer and neighbour Heidi Buergermeister saw a third head. Happy [...]

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Max, the White Stork has family, again!

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:34:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Max, the White Stork is at it again; raising a family that is. Two baby chicks were seen in the celebrity stork’s nest although the number could be higher. According to a spokesperson for the Fribourg Natural History Museum which has been tracking Max since her birth in 1999, the stork [...]

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