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Wachtelkönig makes Thorsten Glauber wait a long time

2021-06-14T23:42:18.447Z


Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber (Free Voters) presented himself as a large listener in the Murnauer Moos. But the Corn Crake kept the politician waiting.


Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber (Free Voters) presented himself as a large listener in the Murnauer Moos.

But the Corn Crake kept the politician waiting.

Murnau

- The star of the evening is not waiting for the minister. For all that is known, he doesn't even know him. In fact, it is exactly the other way around at this meeting between Vogel and Minister: The Corn Crake makes Thorsten Glauber wait. Just so that the balance of power in the Murnauer Moos is staked out. Glauber (Free Voters), the Bavarian Environment Minister, came to Murnau especially for the rare meadow breeder. At the invitation of Norbert Schäffer, Chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection in Bavaria, LBV for short. He dedicated his doctoral thesis to the corncrake. Once a year he and his wife visit the moss for a week and listen carefully to the corncocks.

At 10:33 p.m. the first two birds finally speak up.

The minister and his free entourage (including District Administrator Anton Speer and parliamentary group leader Florian Streibl) have already been hiking through the moss for an hour at this point.

They joke, they listen, they sneak - and briefly they argue a little when Speer and one of the entourage don't quite agree on how to combine the alpine farming, the game, the forest and the shooting quotas.

“Quite normal”, says Susann Enders, member of the state parliament from Weilheim.

“As long as a certain culture of debate is maintained.” The Corn Crake does not participate, he is silent until half past ten, which is nothing unusual in itself.

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Dedicated his doctoral thesis to the Corn Crake: Norbert Schäffer, Chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection.

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Michael Schödl, the area manager, talks about the nights when he and other volunteers go out to count the corncocks. You roam the moss between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. because there is a particularly high chance of hearing one of the rare birds trumpeting this double-syllable scratching into the moss that sounds like a cordless screwdriver that is just sinking a Spax into a wooden board. At the first count of the year the ornithologists only heard nine corncracks, last year it was 23. He still lives in the moss because it is seldom mowed here. The bird breeds in August. "If I mow in front of it, I lose the corncrake," says Schäffer, the expert and LBV boss. This is what happened in many areas. In Ireland, for example, it has been observed that after the mechanization of mowing, the corncrake within two,three years completely disappeared. That is why protection zones like the Murnauer Moos are needed. A female lays twelve eggs there in eight days. Hardly any other bird can produce more eggs per time, as Schäffer points out.

It was even helpful to local politics that the Corn Crake held back elegantly. So District Administrator Speer had enough time to address his concerns at a more important point. He promoted the combination posture, which the district has also anchored in its UNESCO application, asked for solutions for the wolf, and outlined the problem with visitor management. “The pressure is very high,” says the Unterammergau resident. At the same time, the minister stressed: "The worst thing to do would be to say: 'Stay away'." In doing so, he supports the integrative path of the district, which in this way does not want to scare off visitors.

On this evening, Glauber presented himself as the big listener, regardless of whether Speer or the Corn Crake worked his ear. In the end, he gets into the company car and lets the Corn Crake do what he likes best: lure females. And that about 25,000 times a night.

Source: merkur

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