The article describes the efforts of a group of scientists and volunteers to reintroduce the northern bald ibis, a nearly extinct species, to wild Europe. This initiative involves guiding the birds, which were hand-raised by foster mothers, on migratory patterns using microlight aircraft. Over the course of a migration journey spanning 1,700 miles to southern Spain, the team, led by Johannes Fritz, has undertaken this task annually for two decades, highlighting the commitment to species conservation and the improbable miracles of nature.
This was this flock's first day on the move. They had seven weeks and seventeen hundred miles to go until...they would reach wintering grounds.
The humans were a team of scientists and volunteers...dedicated the next two months...to reintroducing these birds to the wild in Europe.
Almost every August for the past twenty years, Johannes Fritz has led a flock of juveniles on a fall migration, to teach them how, and where, to travel.
The birds...were members of a species called the northern bald ibis: funny-looking, totemic, nearly extinct.
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