Max the stork’s migrations were sometimes taken as a sign of climate change as she spent less and less of her winter in North Africa and Spain. We’ve followed her flights for years so it is with sad news that we have learned of her death in Spain, just to the south of Madrid, at the ripe old age of 13. Cause of death is unclear but she may have hit a power line.
http://www.24heures.ch/Sainte/environnement/Max-la-cigogne-est-decedee-en-Espagne-/story/23712861
http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/max-heads-for-the-slopes/
http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/winter-swallows-that-make-the-summer/
Thanks to ISE for the heads-up on this.