Newsletter 30/10/2015
Yesterday, October 29, a group of three migrating Northern Bald Ibises reached our wintering area WWF Oasi Laguna di Orbetello in southern Tuscany. The group consisted of one experienced adult male migrant, called JAZU, and two juvenile birds.
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Newsletter 18/09/2015
Migratory birds undertake arduous journeys. But how can a tiny bird achieve to travel of up to 200 hours in a non-stop flapping flight from Europe to tropical Africa, from Canada to Europe, or across the pacific from Alaska to New Zealand? A new collaborative study of Waldrappteam, Austria, with the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, the University of Vienna, the Vet-Med University of Vienna, the University of Groningen, The Netherlands just published in the journal PONE, takes us a step further in understanding this extreme endurance behavior.
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