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News 2023
Exciting breeding season
The migrating population of Northern Bals Ibises currently comprises four breeding colonies, three of them north of the Alps and...
First young bird fledges at the training camp at Binningen airfield
Despite continuous rain, the first juvenile bird fledged today at the training camp at Binningen airfield in the municipality of...
Human-led migration 2023: Beginning of hand-rearing at Rosegg Zoo
The 16th human-led migration begins. In the last few days, 18 chicks have already been taken from the nests of...
An exciting breeding season is starting for our Northern Bald Ibises
As usual, spring migration has started in the second half of March this year. Only sexually mature birds normally take...
Consequences of climate change: New challenges and prospects for the European Northern Bald Ibis LIFE-project
In 2022, the majority of wild Northern Bald Ibises from the breeding colonies north of the Alps failed to cross...
New paper published on the impact of biologging devices in Northern Bald Ibises
Remote monitoring by use of biologging technology is essential for our conservation project. The regularly transmitted GPS positions of most...
Characterization of Northern Bald Ibis formations using Fuzzy Modelling
After the recent publication of a key-paper on the demographic development of the Northern Bald Ibis population (link), a study...
On the road to self-sustainability: Recently published analysis provides positive forecasts for the European reintroduction program with the Northern Bald Ibis
A recently published paper in the journal ORYX evaluates the success of the European reintroduction project for the Northern Bald...
News 2022
Merry Christmas!
It was an eventful and exciting year for the Waldrappteam. Also thanks to your support, we were able to successfully implement many goals and measures.
Serious bird losses in Tuscany due to the Cyclone Denise
On November 21 and 22, the cyclone Denise brought a wave of severe weather to Corsica, Sardinia and large parts of Italy including Tuscany. It led to extensive flooding and...
Gift ideas: Waldrapp calendar 2023 and picture auction
The Tourism Association of Burghausen, in cooperation with Oliver Habel, has again put together a very nice Northern Bald Ibis wall calendar for the year 2023.
FACE position paper of European hunters: Recent kills of Northern Bald Ibises demonstrate urgency for true “zero tolerance” against Wildlife Crime
On October 25, 2022, the FACE General Assembly unanimously adopted a position paper on wildlife crime (download link), which according to their own statement reaffirms their long-standing position of "zero...
Climate change is becoming an increasing threat and challenge for the Northern Bald Ibis
Numerous Northern Bald Ibises from the three breeding colonies in the northern foothills of the Alps are still north of the Alps. They are acutely endangered by the approaching onset...
Exciting autumn migration
Some time has passed since we arrived in Tuscany on 2nd September with the hand-raised young birds. After a few weeks of acclimatisation in the aviary, these birds have now...
Hannibal
Hannibal is a female Northern Bald Ibis with an exciting personality and a very unique life history. In 2015, she was hand-raised in Salzburg by two human foster parents. In...
Arrived: Grand finale of the 15th human-led migration.
On 2 September at 3:20 pm, two microlights and 25 young Northern Bald Ibises landed at the edge of the WWF Oasi Laguna di Orbetello after a flight of 261...
Record flight at the beginning of the fifteenth human-led Ibis migration
On the 16 of August, shortly before noon, an unusual formation landed on a meadow north of the Schönachhof campsite in Gerlos: 29 young Northern Bald Ibises flanked by two...
Dramatic electrocution in Salzburg: Medium-voltage pylons as a death trap for large birds
This year, 40 Northern Bald Ibises have already fledged in the four breeding colonies. After fledging, the birds are no longer roosting and resting in their breeding niches but are...
Tracing the Fate of the Northern Bald Ibis Over Five Millennia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Extinction and Recovery of an Iconic Bird Species
We recently published a paper together with the Egyptologist and our longtime friend Jiří Janák from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at the Charles University in Prague. Jiří has been...
Reason for Hope: Visit from Jane Goodall
In the last week, Jane Goodall visited the European LIFE Northern Bald Ibis project. This famous and charismatic scientist revolutionized our society’s thinking about the relationship between humans and animals...
