GenevaLunch » white stork http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no A long winter’s end in sight, with Max heading up the Rhonehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/a-long-winters-end-in-sight-with-max-heading-up-the-rhone/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/a-long-winters-end-in-sight-with-max-heading-up-the-rhone/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:03:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66814 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/a-long-winters-end-in-sight-with-max-heading-up-the-rhone/feed/ 0 Summer is over, says Max the storkhttp://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 Spring in February? Max seems to think sohttp://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 storkhttp://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 white stork, lands in winter homehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/09/max-the-white-stork-lands-in-winter-home/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/09/max-the-white-stork-lands-in-winter-home/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27276 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Max, the white stork who has been tracked for longer than any other bird of her kind, 11 years, may have completed her winter migratory trip, and she is now 110 km south of Madrid. The Natural History Museum in Fribourg, which tracks the bird, says she arrived Tuesday evening 8 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/09/max-the-white-stork-lands-in-winter-home/feed/ 0 Travels with Max the storkhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/31/travels-with-max-the-stork/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/31/travels-with-max-the-stork/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:35:10 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=26401 GenevaLunch.com Lunel, France (GenevaLunch) – Max, a white stork born in 1999 and tracked via radio signals in a ring around her leg that are picked up by satellite, is underway again on her yearly migration. She left her nest in Tuefingen, Germany near Lake Constance last Thursday 27 August, and after a slow start, crossed [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/31/travels-with-max-the-stork/feed/ 0 On a wing or two and a prayer, baby storks leave the nesthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/26/on-a-wing-or-two-and-a-prayer-baby-storks-leave-the-nest/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/26/on-a-wing-or-two-and-a-prayer-baby-storks-leave-the-nest/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:36:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=21198 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The family of Max, the Swiss white stork that has been tracked by the Natural History Museum of Fribourg for the past 10 years, is growing up: the three offspring born 20 April near the German-Swiss border are learning to fly. Thursday, 25 June, the first one make a few tentative [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/26/on-a-wing-or-two-and-a-prayer-baby-storks-leave-the-nest/feed/ 1 Max the stork has more babies!http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/max-the-stork-has-more-babies/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/max-the-stork-has-more-babies/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:40:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=15617 GenevaLunch.com 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/max-the-stork-has-more-babies/feed/ 0 Max the stork’s ex-mate returns to the nesthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/03/max-the-storks-ex-mate-returns-to-the-nest/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/03/max-the-storks-ex-mate-returns-to-the-nest/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:28:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=13170 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg and Tuerlingen, Germany (GenevaLunch) – High-drama near the Swiss-German border: the saga of Max the stork’s mating lifecontinues. Max, the world’s longest living satellite-tracked bird, spent Monday morning cleaning out and building up her nest with her new beau keeping her company. They copulated several times, reports the Museum of Natural History in Fribourg, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/03/max-the-storks-ex-mate-returns-to-the-nest/feed/ 0 Max the stork says it’s time for Cataloniahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/02/02/max-the-stork-says-its-time-for-catalonia/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/02/02/max-the-stork-says-its-time-for-catalonia/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:52:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=11530 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The high winds that tore through Switzerland, Italy, France and Portugal at the end of January caused enormous damage. They also unsettled a bird who has been followed by thousands: Max the Swiss stork. Max was born in Avanches, Vaud in 1999, where she was banded. She has become the longest-living [...]

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