Eberhard Gabler

Eberhard Gabler

Eberhard Gabler (born December 23, 1933 in Ammendorf , Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German ornithologist , writer and painter . He was head of the Bird Protection Information Center (VIZ) in Sindelfingen .

Life

Eberhard Gabler grew up in the Spessart and was already involved in ornithology, forestry and hunting in his youth. The trained gardener in the cultivation of ornamental plants was the initiator and long-time director of the Bird Protection Information Center (VIZ) in Sindelfingen. He drew the display boards of the so-called educational trail (bird protection trail) with motifs of the local flora and fauna. He also designed the wooden panels for the hedge trail in Ostelsheim (Böblingen district), for the hunting trail in the Schönbuch nature park and for the nature trail in Kleinenztal (district of Calw), and painted and labeled them with animal and plant motifs. At the Klostersee in Sindelfingen (Böblingen district) you can see panels painted by him on the subjects of native birds and fish.

Eberhard Gabler works as a nature and hunting book author and illustrator and has written various articles in German and Austrian hunting newspapers. Between 2006 and 2008, he had various natural history and ornithological television appearances for SWR on the program “Kaffee oder Tee”. In 2014 he took over the artistic design of the forest experience center in the Sindelfingen Forestry Office and painted, among other things, the tree path boards and the board for the bird observation house. He also carved owl sculptures.

He is married and has three grown children.

Awards

Gabler received two European environmental prizes: in 1988 for nature conservation work with the establishment of the VIZ and in 1990 for the project “Protection of birds of prey without borders”.

In March 2018, Eberhard Gabler received the Badge of Honor from the State of Baden-Württemberg for many years of voluntary service.

Publications

• The trail: hunting from a different perspective . blv, Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-405-16175-4
• Nesting boxes and bird feeders: building instructions and practical tips . blv, Munich, 2003, ISBN 3-405-16489-3 (also in Polish and Czech edition)
• Silent gods - flaming land: a hunting novel . Stocker, Graz / Stuttgart, 2004, ISBN 3-7020-1042-4
• The play cock queen: on deer pass and hunting trails . Kosmos, Stuttgart, 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-13193-0
• In the shadow of the tall wood: a hunting novel . Kosmos, Stuttgart, 2014, ISBN 978-3-440-14044-4
• Bird and feeder houses - building instructions, bird portraits, winter feeding . BLV, Munich, ISBN 978-3835412958
• The leader . Bassermann, 2014, Munich, ISBN 978-3-8094-3192-3
• The hunt with the falcon , BLV, 2016, Munich, ISBN 978-3-8354-1537-9
• Practical guide to bird protection: the garden as a habitat for our birds , FSVO, 2019, Munich, ISBN 978-3-8354-1917-9

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Gabler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bernd Heyden, Sindelfinger Zeitung: The tireless observation hunter , November 5, 2016.
• Siegfried Dannecker, Kreiszeitung Böblinger Bote: https://www.krzbb.de/krz_51_111485989-13-_Sindelfinger-Vogelschutzzentrum-Landesehrennadel-fuer-Eberhard-Gabler.html?archiv=1 , March 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: Who paints the nightingale , November 18, 2014.
2. ↑ Kreiszeitung Böblinger Bote: Forest, Forest, Birds: A retrospective of Eberhard Gabler , September 21, 2016.