Pfeilstorch
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Ernst Schüz documented a number of birds with arrows stuck to them: a white-bellied stork collected in Tanganyika, a short-toed eagle in Hungary, a honey buzzard in Finland, and a black kite. He also reported swans and eiders with Inuit arrows. He noted in 1969 that sightings of birds with embedded arrows had declined because of the "unfortunate" replacement of bows and arrows with firearms.[11]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Der Rostocker Pfeilstorch" [The Rostock Pfeilstorch] (PDF). Der Sprössling. University of Rostock. 2003. pp. 9–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015.
Mittlerweile sind etwa 25 Fälle bekannt geworden, in denen Weißstörche ganze Pfeile oder Bruchstücke aus Afrika nach Deutschland mitbrachten.
[Since then, around 25 cases wherein white storks have brought with them either entire arrows or fragments from Africa to Germany have become known.] - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fone, Martin (11 January 2020). "Curious Questions: How did a stork with a spear through its neck solve the mystery of the migration of birds?". countrylife.co.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Baykal, Hakan (20 May 2022). "Vogelzug: Die wahre Geschichte vom Pfeilstorch" [Bird Migration: The True Story of the Arrow Stork]. spektrum.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Zoologische Sammlung der Universität Rostock" (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 2 October 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Flyer for the Rostock University Zoological Collection" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Der Sproessling 3" (PDF) (in Deutsch). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cocker, Mark; Mabey, Richard (2005). Birds Britannica. Chatto & Windus. p. 315. ISBN 0-7011-6907-9.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pomeroy, Ross (19 February 2018). "The Weirdest Ideas About Bird Migration". www.realclearscience.com. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.MacDonald, Helen (15 May 2015). "Flight Paths". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kinzelbach, Ragnar K. (2005). Das Buch vom Pfeilstorch (in Deutsch). Basilisken-Presse. ISBN 3-925347-78-X.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schüz, E. (1969). "[Short Notes]. Storks and Other Birds Carrying Arrowheads". Ostrich. 40 (1): 17–. doi:10.1080/00306525.1969.9634321.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hagen, H. (1975). "Beobachtung eines Pfeilstorches in Ost-Afrika" [White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) with arrow protruding from its body seen in East Africa]. Ornithologische Mitteilungen (in Deutsch). 27 (5): 111–112.
