Who builds the highest nest? White storks have even settled on the 28-metre-high electricity pylons on the banks of the Rhine between Walluf and Schierstein. However, not by chance. The main road leads through a 110 hectare wetland for the production of drinking water. Since the mid-seventies, a steadily growing stork colony has been living there, after conservationists had provided nesting sites and food for the missing child messenger.

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