Probably every mother and every father knows this: The child rides his bike to school alone for the first time – and you would like to call the office immediately and ask if he got there safely. Many also tell of recurring horror visions that the son or daughter runs into the street after the ball at a moment when they are not being observed. From the point of view of most parents, road traffic is the greatest risk of accidents for children. At the same time, only nine percent go by
Hamburg (dpa) – The stork Alexander, equipped with a transmitter, has landed again on the Elbe in the north. The white stork is one of seven tagged storks from Hamburg whose flight movements can be tracked precisely on the internet. “Stork Alexander flew the approximately 1,800 kilometers between Zaragoza and the Vier- und Marschlanden in 21 days, with a maximum daily performance of 338 kilometers,” said the Nature Conservation Union (Nabu) on Tuesday in Hamburg. After crossing the border to Germany, he took a break of several days in Saarland before making his way to Hamburg, it was said.
“I would have thought that he would come on Sunday with the nice weather, but he’s strolling around a bit,” said Hamburg’s stork father, Jürgen Pelch, to the dpa. According to the data on the website, Alexander was last on the road near Schwarmstedt in Lower Saxony on Saturday and has been in Hamburg since Monday.
According to Pelch, three males and one female had settled in Hamburg by then. “I also get regular reports from the Harburg district that a stork has landed again,” said the Nabu stork supervisor. The animals are completely on schedule. “Everything is in the green. It’s starting now. But it’s also going to take a long time. Little by little the storks will come to us until mid-April.”
The rest of the storks equipped with a tracking device by Nabu and Pelch were last in Africa. Sender stork Jan, who overwintered in Egypt, set out three days ago, according to Nabu. Unlike them, the stork Alexander usually only winters in Spain.
When the birds make their way north, they usually fly 300 to 400 kilometers a day. In 2022, 40 of the 50 stork nests in Hamburg were occupied and 30 of the pairs bred successfully.
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Berlin (dpa / tmn) – Whatsapp users can soon make their status classified. If you want to share news or photos using this function, you can specify who can see your own status or which contacts should not see it, as the Meta subsidiary reports. The last selection is saved and used as the default for the next status update.
Status messages disappear within 24 hours and could previously consist of text, photos, videos or GIFs. But WhatsApp has planned changes here too: on the one hand, voice messages up to 30 seconds long will soon be possible. On the other hand, there should be preview images that show the content of links posted in the status.
Green circle means new status
So that you don’t miss anything, Whatsapp has come up with a new notification, the profile ring: As soon as a contact shares a new status message, a green circle appears around their profile picture – both in chat and group lists and in the contact information. It will also be possible in the future to react directly to a status with emojis by swiping up on the message.
According to the information, the new status functions are to be introduced worldwide for both Android and iOS and will be available in the next few weeks.
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