Landmark
Turckheim
Walled wine village where storks nest year-round, rescued from near-extinction by captive breeding.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Turckheim, one of Alsace's official stork villages near Colmar, follows the white stork from its near-disappearance in the nineteen seventies to the birds nesting on this walled town's gates and rooftops today. It traces the unlikely rescue effort led by regional ornithologists working off a method pioneered in Switzerland, and the decades it took the population to recover. Look up as you walk the ramparts, and you will start spotting nests in places you would not expect.
This audio guide was created using AI.