German Stork Census
Ornithologists are worried because each year, fewer and fewer storks return to their breeding nests in West Germany. Of the some 1000 nests inhabited in 1950, more than half are now empty. This is because of advanced civilisation as well as the hunting zeal in countries where the white storks migrate. They are not protected
by law as they are in Germany, where all attempts are being made to retain and even enlarge the remaining number of storks. The State Museum in Hanover now keeps a “stork’s address book” which lists the home and condition of the nesting areas in the state of Lower Saxony. Careful count is
taken each year on how many storks returned, if they fought among themselves, how many young were hatched and were later given rings. Sick or orphaned birds were given great care such as the young stork in the photograph which was found by Hamburg’s “Stork Father,” Mr Schwenn, lying in a ditch.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32382, 22 August 1970, Page 7
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