Scientists used a microlight aircraft to teach bald ibises a migration route; years later, Europe got its first self-sustaining colony in 400 years | World News
For centuries, the northern bald ibis was missing from Europe’s skies, its migratory population wiped out in Central Europe by the 17th century. Bringing it back required more than releasing captive-bred birds into the Alps: conservationists first had to teach them where to go. The Waldrappteam found an ingenious solution, training young ibises to follow…