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A little celebrity fascinates nature lovers in the Unterallgäu: a special bird roams around here, although it otherwise likes to be warmer.
OfUlla Gutmann
At Jengen he was already a little celebrity and attracted numerous bird lovers: A bird has temporarily moved north of
Mindelheim settled, although it is actually native to warmer regions.
It is one of the brown ibis. About half the size of a great egret, dainty slim with a long, curved beak, it is an extraordinary eye-catcher in our area. When it began to snow in Jengen, the bird moved to the north-west and found a place on the Mindel, where it successfully searches for food.
The brown ibis normally lives in southern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey
Colin MacKenzie from the LBV district group
Ostallgäu/ Kaufbeuren knows this bird and knows that such “exotic species” keep moving to our area, even if only temporarily. The brown ibis normally lives in southern France, Italy, Corsica, the Balkans, and the
Turkey as well as the northern Black and even the Caspian Sea.
As a migratory bird, it overwinters mainly in Africa, partly also in southern Spain and the Middle East. The brown ibis mainly lives in swampy areas and shallow waters. “Our bird will probably move to the Rhine or the Lake Constance area when it gets colder here,” suspects the bird expert Colin MacKenzie.
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