A Wild Nandu bird in a field near Schattin, Germany, 30 October 2016. In the current survey, scientists from the Nandu Monitoring working group identified more than 200 wild Nandus in the border area between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein. The immigrant animals are floating about in an area of around 150 square kilometers. At the end of the 1990s, some of the up-to-one-and-a-half-meter-large birds escaped from a breeder in Schleswig-Holstein. Since then, the Nandus, which fall under the Washington Convention on the protection of species (CITES) and the German Federal Natu

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A Wild Nandu bird in a field near Schattin, Germany, 30 October 2016. In the current survey, scientists from the Nandu Monitoring working group identified more than 200 wild Nandus in the border area between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein. The immigrant animals are floating about in an area of around 150 square kilometers. At the end of the 1990s, some of the up-to-one-and-a-half-meter-large birds escaped from a breeder in Schleswig-Holstein. Since then, the Nandus, which fall under the Washington Convention on the protection of species (CITES) and the German Federal Nature Conservation Act, are spreading east-wards from the border region along the Wakenitz river. Photo: Jens Buettner/dpa