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Die Störche des Straubinger Tierparks können sich frei bewegen. Sie bleiben jedoch größtenteils da, weil sie gefüttert werden und hier ihre Nester haben.
Selbst über den Winter verweilen sie, statt wie ihre Artgenossen in den Süden nach Spanien oder Afrika zu fliegen.
Ob das gut ist oder nicht, vermag ich nicht zu sagen, nur das sie wenn sie einmal einen Winter lang gefüttert werden, sie immer über den Winter gefüttert werden müssen.

The storks in the Straubinger zoo can roam freely. However, they stay there for the most part because they are fed and have their nests here.
They even stay over the winter instead of flying south to Spain or Africa like their conspecifics.
Whether that's a good thing or not I can't say, just that if they're fed once for a winter, they need to be fed all winter.


Bayern (Bavaria) - Deutschland (Germany)
Tierpark (Zoo)
Straubing Niederbayern
Oktober (October) 2022

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How fog is formed?

Not very many people have witnessed first hand how fog is formed.

After seeing Grey heron doing its thing through my camera viewfinder, it is impossible to unlearn the obvious causal link and to enjoy the fog as much as I used to before this photo revealed/ruined the mystery.

"Fog appears when water vapor (water in its gaseous form) condenses".

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The Candle of Memory, completed in 2008, is the architectural summit of the History of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The 30 metre high monument is decorated with glass crosses of different sizes arranged in a Ukrainian folk embroidery pattern. The crosses symbolize the souls of the famines’ victims, young and old. The bronze figures of storks soaring from the base of the monument represent the rebirth of the Ukrainian nation. It was designed by the artist Anatoly Haidamaka and the architect Yury Kovalev.

The Candle and the entire museum complex addition commemorates the Holomodor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-3 which killed anywhere from 2.5 to 7.5 million people, as well famines in 1921-2 and 1946-7. The events of 1932-3 have become better known internationally since the release of the 2019 film, Mr Jones.

Whether the Holodomor was genocide is still the subject of academic debate, as are the causes of the famine and intentionality of the deaths. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. In the context of the forced collectivisation of agriculture, there were also famines at the same time in the North Caucasus, Volga, Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia. In Kazakhstan around 2 million people died.

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

The Candle of Memory, completed in 2008, is the architectural summit of the History of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The 30 metre high monument is decorated with glass crosses of different sizes arranged in a Ukrainian folk embroidery pattern. The crosses symbolize the souls of the famines’ victims, young and old. The bronze figures of storks soaring from the base of the monument represent the rebirth of the Ukrainian nation. It was designed by the artist Anatoly Haidamaka and the architect Yury Kovalev.

The Candle and the entire museum complex addition commemorates the Holomodor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-3 which killed anywhere from 2.5 to 7.5 million people, as well famines in 1921-2 and 1946-7. The events of 1932-3 have become better known internationally since the release of the 2019 film, Mr Jones.

Whether the Holodomor was genocide is still the subject of academic debate, as are the causes of the famine and intentionality of the deaths. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. In the context of the forced collectivisation of agriculture, there were also famines at the same time in the North Caucasus, Volga, Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia. In Kazakhstan around 2 million people died.

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

The Candle of Memory, completed in 2008, is the architectural summit of the History of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The 30 metre high monument is decorated with glass crosses of different sizes arranged in a Ukrainian folk embroidery pattern. The crosses symbolize the souls of the famines’ victims, young and old. The bronze figures of storks soaring from the base of the monument represent the rebirth of the Ukrainian nation. It was designed by the artist Anatoly Haidamaka and the architect Yury Kovalev.

The Candle and the entire museum complex below commemorates the Holomodor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-3 which killed anywhere from 2.5 to 7.5 million people, as well famines in 1921-2 and 1946-7. The events of 1932-3 have become better known internationally since the release of the 2019 film, Mr Jones.

Whether the Holodomor was genocide is still the subject of academic debate, as are the causes of the famine and intentionality of the deaths. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. In the context of the forced collectivisation of agriculture, there were also famines at the same time in the North Caucasus, Volga, Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia. In Kazakhstan around 2 million people died.

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
If you listen carefully now you will hear
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
Things are not the way they used to be
I won't tell no lie
One and all got to face reality now
Though I try to find the answer
To all the questions they ask
Though I know it's impossible
To go living through the past
Don't tell no lie
There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Can't keep them down
If you listen carefully now you will hear
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
I won't tell no lie
If you listen carefully now, you will hear
There's a Natural Mystic blowing through the air
Such a Natural Mystic, blowing through the air
There's a Natural Mystic, blowing through the air
Such a Natural Mystic, blowing through the air
Such a Natural Mystic, blowing through the air
Such a Natural Mystic, blowing through the air

(Bob Marley)

Maguari stork

Una de mis aves favoritas...

El Jabirú: "Su Majestad" entre las cigüeñas, una de las aves acuáticas más grandes de América. Su nombre proviene del idioma guaraní y significa “cuello hinchado”, en referencia a su capacidad de inflar a voluntad los sacos aéreos subcutáneos ubicados en el cuello. En la zona norte de Argentina y en Paraguay recibe varios nombres populares como "Tuyuyú coral" o "Tuyuyú cuartelero". (Wikipedia)

En algunas zonas rurales de Corrientes la llaman "Cigüeña federal"

Un Jabirú levanta vuelo en los campos Correntinos.
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A Jabirú takes flight in the fields of Corrientes province.

The jabiru (/ˌdʒæbɪˈruː/ or /ˈdʒæbɪruː/; Latin: Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It sometimes wanders into the United States, usually in Texas, but has been reported as far north as Mississippi. It is most common in the Pantanal region of Brazil and the Eastern Chaco region of Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus Jabiru. The name comes from a Tupi–Guaraní language and means "swollen neck".
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El jabirú, tuyuyu o jabirú americano​ (Jabiru mycteria) es una especie de ave ciconiforme de la familia Ciconiidae; es la mayor cigüeña del Nuevo Mundo. Con una altura de 120-140 cm y una envergadura (alas desplegadas) de 3 metros, es una ave inconfundible de los humedales americanos desde Yucatán hasta la pampa argentina, siendo abundante en zonas como los llanos venezolanos, el Pantanal o el Iberá. Se parece bastante a su pariente, el marabú africano, pero a diferencia de este no come cadáveres aunque sea carnívoro, prefiere pescar dentro del agua. También es común encontrarlos en los llanos de Bolivia, también en Paraguay de cuyo idioma proviene el nombre. No es un ave sociable. Se le encuentra en solitario; las parejas construyen nidos voluminosos sobre grandes árboles, con puestas de 2 a 4 huevos.

Es el ave voladora más alta de Centro y Sudamérica, y la segunda del continente en envergadura superada por el cóndor andino (Vultur gryphus).

En Colombia y Venezuela se le conoce como garzón soldado y en Costa Rica es conocido como Galán sin ventura.

Cigüeña Americana: Ciconia maguari

La cigüeña maguari, ​ tuyango, cigüeña americana, tabuyayá o pillo es una especie de ave ciconiforme de la familia Ciconiidae nativa de América del Sur.

Stork on a lantern pole

Near to Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania.

demoiselle crane (Grus virgo)

China has the greatest diversity of cranes of any country:
Demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo
Siberian crane, Grus leucogeranus
Sandhill crane, Grus canadensis (A)
Sarus crane, Grus antigone
White-naped crane, Grus vipio
Common crane, Grus grus
Hooded crane, Grus monacha
Black-necked crane, Grus nigricollis
Red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis

These are Demoiselle cranes in migration across Xinjiang