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Wartha (dpa / sn) - Despite the sometimes freezing cold, cranes have overwintered the heath and pond landscape in the Upper Lusatian biosphere reserve this year.
The management of the reserve attributed this to the food supply on Tuesday.
Numerous farms have been won over to postpone the upheaval to hundreds of hectares of maize stubble, fallow and wild bee fields into spring.
"Now around 500 cranes, almost 1000 whooper swans, more than a thousand gray, white-fronted and bean geese and thousands of finches have found enough food to get through this winter," it said.
"While most of the birds are winter visitors from Northeast Europe, there are many breeding birds among the cranes," the biosphere reserve said.
About 100 pairs of cranes would breed in the reserve area alone.
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Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve