Max (white stork)

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The white stork Max , which despite its male name was a female, was the most famous stork in Switzerland . Equipped with a satellite transmitter, the stork flew a total of more than 60,000 kilometers in her life.

Max hatched near Avenches in Switzerland on May 20, 1999 . On July 5, 1999, she was ringed (No. 6215) and has since carried an Argos transmitter. This enabled it to be regularly localized by the Natural History Museum in Freiburg .

Max's mother was hatched in Mannheim and was ringed in Radolfzell on June 19, 1997 (No. 06407). During her migration, she stopped at Bulle in western Switzerland. As she was very weak, she was caught on September 4, 1997 and taken to the care station of the Natural History Museum in Freiburg . After her recovery, she was released on September 12, 1997 at Haras, the Swiss National Stud in Avenches. She stayed there until 1999, when she and her partner raised a young bird for the first time. It was named "Max" in honor of Max Bloesch (1908–1997), who for decades campaigned for the white stork in Switzerland and especially for its reintroduction. Only after three years did it become clear that Max was a female. However, the name has not been changed.

Max brooded for the first time in 2002 near Tüfingen in Germany and has a total of 31 offspring. In the first eight winters it migrated across the Strait from Gibraltar to Morocco, but from 2008 it spent the winter in Spain, but returned regularly to Tüfingen to breed. Max has been the world record holder for the longest satellite monitoring of an animal since 2010.

In December 2012, she was found dead by ornithologists in Spain when the carcass was already partially eaten.

literature

  • A. Aebischer, A. Fasel: Variations of bird migration: the example of the white stork "Max" . 2007, Bull. Soc. Frib. Sc. Nat. 96, pp. 57-82.
  • A. Aebischer, A. Fasel: Les 10 ans de “Max” - Suivi à long terme d'une Cigogne blanche “Ciconia ciconia” by satellites . 2010, Nos Oiseaux 57, pp. 165-176.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The stork Max is dead , NZZ Online, accessed on December 28, 2012