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The long flight to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate


Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

He made a documentary (“C’mon Geese!”), published a memoir (“ Father Goose ”), and even appeared as Daniels’s flight double in “Fly Away Home.” After a “20/20” segment about him, on ABC, the co-host Hugh Downs said, “I think it’s the most beautiful story that we’ve had on ‘20/20’ in its fifteen years.” During the day, Christine Schachenmeier, who owns the organic farm in Germany where the fledglings learned to fly, and Gunnar Hartmann brought out crates of mealworms, each containing thousands of grubs on a bed of sawdust and egg-carton cardboard. There were Voldemort, Fluffy, Aragog, and Grindelwald (“our Harry Potter nest”); Queenie, Genti, Diva (after Helena’s horse stable); Catan, Canasta, Uno, Dixit (games); Levante, Poniente, Fernanda, Marisma (wind systems, Spanish friends); Tarifa, Conil, Achilles, Meniscus, Optimas (“That is my favorite wine”).

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