Share to ClassroomGuides Take Waldrapp Birds to Spain
Fifteen birds joined a group in the north of Spain. Guides helped them from Austria in a small plane. The birds are called Waldrapp. An ibis is this kind of bird. In Catalonia, Bernat Garrigós leads the project. These birds were gone from Europe for 300 years.
Morocco once had 9,000 of these birds. Later there were only 250. People then planned to raise them in Austria and in Jerez. Work in Spain started in 2024. It is in the middle of Austria and Jerez. The birds are not afraid of people.
They have no babies before age three or four. A first pair may arrive in one or two years. In ten years the team wants 50 pairs and about 300 wild birds. Other projects want groups across Europe. Endesa is an electricity company. It is making tall towers safer for birds. Garrigós says people must protect their homes.
