Travellers - Greylag Goose (Travel Bug Dog Tag)
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ravencoat
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Friday, December 20, 2013
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Brandenburg, Germany
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Greylag Goose
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Please help me to retrace the route of the migrating greylag goose. Bring it to the north of Africa, not crossing the equator, and then back up again to northern Germany or southern Finland!
Bitte helft mir, die Zugroute der Graugans nachzuvollziehen! Schickt sie nach Nordafrika und von dort dann wieder zurück nach Norddeutschland oder Südfinnland!
One of the most common migrating birds of Europe, the greylag goose doesn't always fly south. If the weather stays warm enough, they may even remain at their breeding places over winter. If they do migrate they gather in big swarms and fly in the v-formation typical for so many migrating birds. Their way leads them from northern or central Europe south towards the north of Africa, often Tunisia or Algeria. Their name greylag goose comes from the fact that they supposedly tend to be the last migrating birds to leave for the south, therefore "lagging behind" the others, or so Wikipedia tells me.
Eine der häufigsten Gänsearten Deutschlands, die Graugänse, fliegen nicht immer unbedingt nach Süden. Wenn es warm genug bleibt, überwintern sie manchmal auch in ihren Brutgebieten. Wenn sie aber doch ziehen, dann sammeln sie sich in großen Schwärmen und fliegen dann in der für Zugvögel so typischen V-Formation. Ihre Route führt sie meist von Nord- oder Mitteleuropa nach Nordafrika, zum Beispiel Algerien oder Tunesien.
Travellers
You seek the distance
seek to roam
Windwhisperer
Cloudcompanion
Journeywing
Fly safely
until your return
in spring
I grew up in northern Germany, where each year spring and autumn would be marked by the cries of the returning or leaving migrating birds like the greylag goose or the common crane. I have always loved them and the strange melancholy of the journeys they and so many other migrating birds make each year. For me they represent the yearning for another, far-away place, but at the same time a deep-seated desire to always, always return home.
With this project I want to send off different migrating birds and try to retrace their approximate routes with the help of other geocachers!
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Moana1704 took it to A wie Avatar
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Brandenburg, Germany
- 3.13 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Bernhard Danckelmann
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Brandenburg, Germany
- .79 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Die Wilhelmsbrücke
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Brandenburg, Germany
- 3.5 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Der Igel wohnt jetzt hier! -BONUS-
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Brandenburg, Germany
- .16 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Der Igel wohnt jetzt hier!
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Brandenburg, Germany
- 1.51 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Geburtstagscache on the Döner
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Brandenburg, Germany
- 26.1 miles
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Moana1704 took it to CHOJNA (2): Marienkirche (Kosciól Mariacki)
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Zachodniopomorskie, Poland
- 29.74 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Die Vitamin-Runde 5
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Brandenburg, Germany
- .53 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Ein kleiner Dank für die Vitamin-Bombe
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Brandenburg, Germany
- .24 miles
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Moana1704 took it to Die Vitamin-Runde 2
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Brandenburg, Germany
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