As of: March 15, 2024, 8:00 p.m
By: Elena Royer
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Cockatiels Rosella parakeets, zebra finches, canaries and the like live in the Geretsried birdhouse at the school center.
But their days there are numbered.
The animals move in May.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
It will soon become quiet in the bird house in the city forest.
The birds living there have to move to Karlsruhe as early as May.
The building will be demolished.
Geretsried – At the moment, walkers in the city forest can still hear a cheerful whirring and warbling at the bird house.
Soon it will be quieter here for a while - and then a construction site will begin.
The bird house has to make way for the school expansion.
Now we know: the birds move in May.
They cannot stay in Geretsried – even if some people wished that.
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“The city has tried, but there is no suitable property,” says Ingrid Brauner.
She sounds sad when she says that.
Brauner has been looking after the birds for 33 years.
The commitment earned her the nickname “Bird Mama”.
The 69-year-old has held the animals in her heart over the years.
Brauner recently had a conversation with Mayor Michael Müller - without positive results.
Although she had already expected it, she still finds it difficult to imagine Geretsried without the birdhouse.
“The birds will be relocated in mid-May,” says Brauner.
The bird house must be empty by the end of 2024.
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An association called “Federnhilfe” takes in all of the 120 birds from Geretsried and places them near Karlsruhe.
According to information on its website, “Federnhilfe” takes care of parrot birds and strives to accommodate them “quickly and in an animal welfare and species-appropriate manner” in acute emergency situations.
Although on the one hand it was “a lot of work” to work on the bird house every weekend “no matter what the weather,” cleaning it and providing water and food, the “bird mom” will miss the work.
“It was nice and I met a lot of nice people because of it,” says the 69-year-old.
The bird house on Adalbert-Stifter-Straße has no future.
It will be demolished.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
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Brauner also counts the many helpers who have stood by her over the years.
And although Brauner will now have a lot more time for her grandchildren, it is still an adjustment: “The love for animals is simply there for me.
I also feel sorry for Geretsried when the birdhouse is gone.”
What will also be lost when the birdhouse is no longer there is the holiday care that Brauner has offered in recent years.
In the future, those interested will have to contact nearby animal shelters.
Employees from “Federnhilfe” will come to Geretsried in mid-May to move the feathered residents.
“Each bird is then caught, ringed and tested for diseases,” explains Brauner.
Before they finally move, they will remain in quarantine for a certain period of time.
Then the journey to their new home begins.
The costs for transport, reports the “Bird Mama”, are covered by the city.
And the city will also pay for the demolition of the bird house.
Birds migrate from Geretsried to Karlsruhe
Will the animals quickly feel comfortable in their new surroundings in Baden-Württemberg?
“I think it will take a few days for them to get used to it,” suspects Brauner.
After all, many of the birds have lived in Geretsried for ten to 15 years.
“Overall, things should go quickly.”
The “mama bird” is also a little relieved.
“I’m happy about the solution,” she says.
Even if she – and certainly many people in Geretsried – would have preferred to stay nearby.
“I'm pleased that the birds are well accommodated.” She looks back on the past 33 years with a laughing and a crying eye: Geretsried without a birdhouse?
“This will be weird.”
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