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It's been very fun reading the dairy. 💜
How does one show birds where to fly?
As I understand it, the birds trust the human to be "the parent", so they'll follow wherever the parent goes. Would be cool to have an AMA with the people behind this project, to find out how exactly it is done.
That's cool
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Away_Home
The movie was about geese, but that was practice for cranes.
Hipe this will be a success, sounds like a real ciol project.
The efforts of Fritz and the Waldrappteam, a conservation and research group based in Austria, brought the Central European population from zero to almost 300 since the start of their project in 2002.
The feat moved the species from a “critically endangered” classification to “endangered” and, Fritz says, is the first attempt to reintroduce a continentally extinct migratory bird species.
Fritz was inspired by “Father Goose” Bill Lishman, a naturalist who taught Canadian geese to fly alongside his ultra-light plane beginning in 1988. He later guided endangered whooping cranes through safe routes and founded the nonprofit “Operation Migration.” Lishman’s work prompted the 1996 movie “Fly Away Home” but features a young girl as the geese’s “mother.”
I'd like to better understand why the Canadian based Operation Migration ended in 2016. I understand the expert conclusions, but I wonder if anything could be done to update the program to make it more effective.
I also wonder if the program in this OP article is building upon the learnings from Operation Migration. I was surprised to see so much direct human interaction with these birds on their website.
Bin chickens.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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