GenevaLunch » Max http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Max staying put in warmer Spain http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/max-staying-put-in-warmer-spain/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/max-staying-put-in-warmer-spain/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:35:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66323 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/max-staying-put-in-warmer-spain/feed/ 0 Max says: spring is on the way http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/31/max-says-spring-is-on-the-way/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/31/max-says-spring-is-on-the-way/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:28:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66145 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/31/max-says-spring-is-on-the-way/feed/ 0 Summer is over, says Max the stork http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/15/summer-is-over-says-max-the-stork/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/15/summer-is-over-says-max-the-stork/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:02:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61584 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/15/summer-is-over-says-max-the-stork/feed/ 0 Max’s babies take to the air http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/27/maxs-babies-take-to-the-air/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/27/maxs-babies-take-to-the-air/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:22:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59227 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/27/maxs-babies-take-to-the-air/feed/ 0 Max the stork family: and baby makes five http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/max-the-stork-family-and-baby-makes-five/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/max-the-stork-family-and-baby-makes-five/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 12:23:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57349 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/max-the-stork-family-and-baby-makes-five/feed/ 1 Max, the White Stork has family, again! http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/20/max-the-white-stork-has-family-again/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/20/max-the-white-stork-has-family-again/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:34:14 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=56826 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/20/max-the-white-stork-has-family-again/feed/ 0 Max the stork reminds us that spring equals mating season http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/15/max-the-stork-reminds-us-that-spring-equals-mating-season/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/15/max-the-stork-reminds-us-that-spring-equals-mating-season/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:33:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55331 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Max is at it again: the Swiss white stork has been coupling madly this  at her decade-old nesting site on the Swiss-German border. And, as she has taken to doing for the past couple years, she’s first been coupling noisily with a new fellow in town, from 20 February to 8 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/15/max-the-stork-reminds-us-that-spring-equals-mating-season/feed/ 0 Spring in February? Max seems to think so http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/08/spring-in-february-max-seems-to-think-so/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/08/spring-in-february-max-seems-to-think-so/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:27:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=53611 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Max the white stork, who winters in Spain or, some years, in North Africa, has returned to Switzerland, usually a sign that spring is on its way. Max, 11, is a female white stork born near Avenches, Vaud in Switzerland. She is the longest-living satellite-tracked bird in the world. The Natural [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/08/spring-in-february-max-seems-to-think-so/feed/ 1 It’s Spring! or so says Max the stork http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/its-spring-or-so-says-max-the-stork/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/its-spring-or-so-says-max-the-stork/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:13:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52568 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The warm spell of the past 10 days has brought tears to the eyes of skiers, watching the snow melt in the Jura and lower parts of the Alps. But for those who hate cold weather, Max has good news: it’s time to return north, as the weather warms. Max, a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/its-spring-or-so-says-max-the-stork/feed/ 2 Max the banded white stork basks in Madrid http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/16/max-the-banded-white-stork-basks-in-madrid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/16/max-the-banded-white-stork-basks-in-madrid/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:58:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=47133 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – That Swiss symbol of seasonal changes, Max the white stork, confirms what every parent of school children has suspected for the past two weeks: summer is really, truly over. Max has headed south in her annual winter migration. Max is the world’s longest banded tracked stork, followed by the Natural History [...]

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