Our aims are the conservation of the highly endangered Bald ibises in the wild and the reintroduction of Zoo offspring in parts of there historicaldistribution.In the course of the human-led migrations pilots lead juvenile hand-raisedbirds across Europe. [Information of the supplier]
For a long time breeding Bearded Vultures in captivity seemed almost impossible. Before the first successful reproductions at the Alpenzoo Innsbruck it was only in the twenties that a pair at Sofia Zoo had successfully raised chicks. One of the main problems was the difficulty in distinguishing male and female Bearded Vultures by external features. This hampered the formation of pairs. Because in the case when two males are put together, these behave like a pair, but, obviously, they produce no eggs. Today, by using new techniques, sex determination has become much easier. Within the project, all young Bearded Vultures are raised exclusively by parent birds. Raising by human "foster-parents" would lead to irreversible behavioural deficiencies. Only through the cooperation of zoos from all over Europe did the reintroduction project become possible. In some of these zoos today "grandchildren" of the first Bearded Vulture pairs are already breeding. Currently about 100 Bearded Vultures belong to the breeding stock of the project. The four release sites - situated at a distance of about 200-300 km from each other - are almost all in national parks or nature reserves. Bearded Vultures once occurred at each site. Also today, virtually unchanged natural habitats and extensive cliffs provide optimal conditions for Bearded Vultures. Large populations of chamois, red deer and ibex are a particular feature of the four sites. ... [Information of the supplier]
Since its foundation in 1904 the Bund Heimat und Umwelt (BHU) advocates the cause of cultural landscapes and the people who form part of these landscapes. The projects are concerned with a whole range of issues from the conservation of environment, nature, historic monuments and sites to the protection of regional languages and traditional customs – briefly, with the safe-guarding of all elements basic for cultural landscapes. This demands a holistic thematic approach. Besides the conservation of already existing structures in cultural landscapes an important basic goal is the involvement of the local population in the development of their environment. The BHU supports activities in this field as a provider of ideas, project partner and mediator between different groups. ... [Information of the supplier]
This private web site is dedicated to the Common Swift (Apus apus). The ability of the Common Swift to mate and sleep in the air shows its amazing adaptation to flight. Only for breeding it has to land. The web site supplies a lot of basic information about biology, phenology and protection of this bird species. In APUSlife, the virtual magazine of the Common Swift, a lot of up-to-date scientific articles about the Common Swift, as well as important older texts are available. Additionally this page links to webcams in nesting boxes of Swifts. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
Informationen über den Luchs und sein Vorkommen zu geben, ist das Ziel dieser Webpräsenz. Es werden Texte und Bilder zur Lebensweise, Fortpflanzung, Verhalten, Lebensraum etc., aber auch Aktuelles zum Thema angeboten. [Redaktion vifabio]
The web site of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mauersegler e.V. (DGfM; German Association for the Protection of Common Swifts), founded 2000, provides exhaustive information about identification, biology and protection of the Common Swift (Apus apus). The main focus of this site is the public education how to handle foundlings (first aid, veterinary care, husbandry, release to the wild). Additionally the work of the society and the Swift Rescue Center Frankfurt are presented. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
RERO DOC is the digital library of RERO, the Library Network of Western Switzerland. It has been created to promote, preserve and provide public access to the scholarly literature produced be the institutions participating to the project (electronic theses, dissertations and e-prints) as well as to the digitalized collections of RERO libraries. In the framework of the Open Access initiative it provides a platform for researchers in member universities to self-archive their publications. ... [Information of the supplier]
e-rara.ch is a national collaborative project forming part of the Swiss innovation and cooperation programme e-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic library. The platform is hosted and operated by the ETH-Bibliothek. A growing number of other libraries is participating and adding content by making their digitized books available on e-rara.ch; among them is the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel which provided this collection of 15 digitized books on birds. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]